He began writing science fiction stories in 1895 with the publication of The Time Machine, where he proposed the concept of selective time travel. His career flourished after that, and he won a scholarship to work under the great biologist, Thomas Huxley in London.
At eighteen, he went to work as a teacher in a residential school. The mansion where his mother worked had an enormous library where the child continued to read and educate himself. For Wells, this was one of the most unhappy, yet also the most profitable times in his life. His father's financial troubles compelled his mother to go to work as a lady's maid in a local mansion, while the children were put to work as apprentices with various local tradesmen. His father, a professional cricketer and failed businessman, regularly brought him books from the local library so that he could pass the time. As an eight year old boy, he was once confined to bed with a broken leg. Herbert George Wells' writing career owes itself to an accident suffered in childhood. Based on scientific theories of optics and physics, this story instantly caught the imagination of readers and has been regularly adapted to film, television and radio since it first made its appearance more than a hundred years ago. Written in novella form, this bizarre science fiction tale was first published in Pearson's Weekly as a serial and later compiled into a single book. The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance (to give the book its full title) by HG Wells was published in 1897. The stranger is the keeper of a terrible secret. Mysterious burglaries and fires break out, culminating in a destructive rampage across the peaceful countryside. Suddenly, strange events begin to happen in the village. He stays cooped up in his room all day and night, working with strange chemicals and apparatus. He takes a room at the inn, but refuses to socialize with anyone.
He is heavily clad in an overcoat and his face is wrapped in bandages. One dark and stormy night, a stranger arrives in West Sussex at a village inn.
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