{"product_id":"9781602700543","title":"The Time Machine (Graphic Classics Series)","description":"\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Herbert George Wells was born into a decidedly middle-class family on September 21, 1866, in the London borough of Bromley. His father was a tradesman and his mother a Lady’s maid. Central to the experiences of his youth was an acute awareness of class structure that was emphasized by the position of his family in the class-conscious English society of the time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter a basic education he became a pupil-teacher at the Midhurst Grammar School and secured a scholarship that allowed him to study with T.H. Huxley, the champion of Darwinism in England. After completing his studies with Huxley, Wells worked in a number of professions including journalism until 1895 when \u003ci\u003eThe Time Machine\u003c\/i\u003e was published.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom that point on, Wells became a full-time writer. \u003ci\u003eThe Island of Dr. Moreau\u003c\/i\u003e was published in the following year and \u003ci\u003eWar of the Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e two years later. Wells produced a significant corpus of journalistic, philosophical, and political writing as well as fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo works in particular, \u003ci\u003eThe Discovery of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e (1902) and \u003ci\u003eMankind in the Making\u003c\/i\u003e (1903) caught the attention of George Bernard Shaw and Wells was invited to join the Fabian Society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1920 Wells wrote an immensely popular historical work, \u003ci\u003eThe Outline of History\u003c\/i\u003e. As evidenced by his involvement in the establishment of the League of Nations, Wells was continually involved with questions of social reform. During the Second World War he created the first draft of what would become the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. He died in London on August 13, 1946.","brand":"Abdo Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47056296739056,"sku":"9781602700543","price":28.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781602700543_p0.jpg?v=1763814738","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781602700543","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}