1Īnd indeed, as one of the leading voices of his time, Wells was simultaneously applauded by both his admirers and his political critics, for decades remaining one of the biggest intellectual influences in the English-speaking world. Wells Novelist, fantasist, analyst of society, amateur of science, populariser of ideas, his profuse and astonishing literary career exhibits the constant and guiding passion of a single-minded personality. Wherever there were visions of a new world in the making, wherever there were schemes for a more rational ordering of human affairs, there also was H. Wells’ obituary in The Times stated that he was ‘never anything but successful as a writer, and at one time he was possibly the most widely read author in the world’:
Wells: Interpreting the ‘Writing on the Eastern Wall of Europe’
