Bealby

Yong Bealby was determined he would not be a servant. So opposed was he to the very idea that he ranted and railed against his mother and quit wore her down with his protests. Tantrums aside, the young boy had to accept his lot in life – at least for the time being. And so he was sent to Shonts, the big country house, to work as a steward’s boy. But Bealby hadn’t accounted for a host of guests arriving for the weekend, and certainly nothing in his short life ad prepared him for the arrival of the eloquent, but totally eccentric Lord Chancllor. This was to be a position that Bealby would not soon forget


H.G. Wells (1866-1946) was a novelist, journalist, sociologist and historian, best-known for his science fiction novels. His first attempt at fiction writing was merely imitative, but he eventually set himself up as a freelance writer. Possessor of a lively and humorous style and the exponent in fiction of the relatively new subject of science, his scientific fantasies were hugely popular. Some of his successful novels are The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds. Beneath his inventiveness lies a passionate concern for humanity and society. With time however, his works grew less optimistic and even bitter.