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H.G. Wells H.G. Wells was born as Herbert George Wells on Sep 21 1866, Bromley England. His father was a pro Cricket player and his mom was a servant, once she met H.G. Wells father she retired from being a servant to a house mom. When he was seven he broke his leg, and back then the way to heal that was to put a cast around it and just read books, this is what H.G. Wells called the turning point. He read many books from the greats like Washington Irving and Charles Dickens. When his leg healed his family's store failed. They struggled to survive, in fact they had such a hard time his mom went back to being a servant! H.G. Wells found out about the large library in his mom's boss's library. He spent almost all of his time there, until

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