Herbert George Wells
Herbert George Wells adalah seorang novelis , jurnalis , sosiolog , sekaligus sejarawan berkebangsaan Inggris .[ 1] Dia lahir di Bromley , Kent , Inggris pada tanggal 21 September tahun 1866 dan meninggal saat 13 Agustus 1946 di London .[ 1] Dia terkenal karena novel fiksinya , seperti The Time Machine dan The War of the Worlds , kemudian komik yang dibuatnya, antara lain Tono-Bungay dan The History of Mr. Polly .[ 1] Bersama dengan Jules Verne , Wells disebut sebagai "Bapak Fiksi Ilmiah".[ 2]
Dia dibesarkan oleh keluarga yang miskin.[ 1] Lalu saat usianya mencapai 14 tahun, dia bekerja pada pedagang kain di Windsor , namun dia segera dipecat oleh tuannya .[ 1] Kemudian menjadi asisten seorang ahli kimia , bekerja pada pedangan kain lagi, sampai akhirnya ketika tahun 1883 , dia menjadi penjaga pintu di Midhurst Grammar School .[ 1] Selanjutnya saat umurnya 18 , Wells memperoleh beasiswa untuk belajar biologi di Normal School of Science (kemudian disebut Royal College ) di Kensington selatan , London .[ 1] Wells lulus dari London University tahun 1888 .[ 1]
Referensi
Bacaan lanjut
Dickson, Lovat . H.G. Wells: His Turbulent Life & Times . 1969.
Gilmour, David. The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002 (paperback, ISBN 0-374-18702-9 ); 2003 (paperback, ISBN 0-374-52896-9 ).
Gomme, A. W. , Mr. Wells as Historian . Glasgow: MacLehose, Jackson, and Co., 1921.
Gosling, John. Waging the War of the Worlds . Jefferson, North Carolina, McFarland, 2009 (paperback, ISBN 0-7864-4105-4 ).
Mauthner, Martin. German Writers in French Exile, 1933–1940 , London: Vallentine and Mitchell, 2007, ISBN 978-0-85303-540-4 .
Pranala luar
Sources—collections
Sources—letters, essays and interviews
Film interview with H.G. Wells Diarsipkan 2010-08-20 di Wayback Machine .
"Stephen Crane. From an English Standpoint" Diarsipkan 2013-11-03 di Wayback Machine ., by Wells, 1900.
Rabindranath Tagore: In conversation with H. G. Wells Diarsipkan 2000-03-09 di Wayback Machine .. Rabindranath Tagore and Wells conversing in Geneva in 1930.
"Introduction" Diarsipkan 2006-09-24 di Wayback Machine ., to W. N. P. Barbellion 's The Journal of a Disappointed Man , by Wells, 1919.
"Woman and Primitive Culture" , by Wells, 1895.
Letter Diarsipkan 2011-07-18 di Wayback Machine ., to M. P. Shiel , by Wells, 1937.
New Statesman – In the footsteps of H G Wells at www.newstatesman.com, H.G. Wells called for a Human Rights Act.
Biografi
Critical essays
"An Appreciation of H. G. Wells" , by Mary Austin , 1911.
"Socialism and the Family" (1906) by Belfort Bax , Part 1 , Part 2 .
"H. G. Wells warned us how it would feel to fight a War of the Worlds " Diarsipkan 2007-03-09 di Wayback Machine ., by Niall Ferguson , in The Telegraph , 24 June 2005.
"H. G. Wells's Idea of a World Brain: A Critical Re-assessment" Diarsipkan 2006-07-16 di Wayback Machine ., by W. Boyd Rayward , in Journal of the American Society for Information Science 50 (15 May 1999): 557–579
"Mr H. G. Wells and the Giants" , by G. K. Chesterton , from his book Heretics (1908).
"The Internet: a world brain?" , by Martin Gardner , in Skeptical Inquirer , Jan–Feb 1999.
"Science Fiction: The Shape of Things to Come" Diarsipkan 2006-08-23 di Wayback Machine ., by Mark Bould , in The Socialist Review , May 2005.
"Who needs Utopia? A dialogue with my utopian self (with apologies, and thanks, to H. G. Wells)" , by Gregory Claeys in Spaces of Utopia: An Electronic Journal , no 1, Spring 2006.
"When H. G. Wells Split the Atom: A 1914 Preview of 1945" , by Freda Kirchwey , in The Nation , posted 4 September 2003 (original 18 August 1945 issue).
"Wells, Hitler and the World State" , by George Orwell . First published: Horizon . GB, London. August 1941.
"War of the Worldviews" , by John J. Miller , in The Wall Street Journal Opinion Journal, 21 June 2005.
"Wells's Autobiography" , by John Hart , from New International , Vol.2 No.2, March 1935, pp. 75–76
"History in the Science Fiction of H. G. Wells" Diarsipkan 2006-11-23 di Wayback Machine ., by Patrick Parrinder , Cycnos , 22.2 (2006).
"FROM THE WORLD BRAIN TO THE WORLDWIDE WEB" Diarsipkan 2007-09-28 di Wayback Machine ., by Martin Campbell-Kelly , Gresham College Lecture, 9 November 2006.
"The Beginning of Wisdom: On Reading H. G. Wells" Diarsipkan 2008-07-05 di Wayback Machine ., by Vivian Gornick , "Boston Review ", 31.1 (2007).
John Hammond, The Complete List of Short Stories of H. G. Wells Diarsipkan 2001-02-22 di Archive.is
Website examining the legacy of The War Of The Worlds
"H.G. Wells Predictions Ring True, 143 Years Later" at National Geographic
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