Herbert George Wells was an English writer, born at Atlas House, 162 High Street in Bromley, Kent, on 21 September 1866. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, satire, biography, and autobiography, and even including two books on recreational war games. Nowadays H.G. Wells is mostly remembered for his innovative science fiction n... Read More
William Wilkie Collins was one of the best known, best loved, and, for a time, best paid of Victorian fiction writers. He was a close friend of Charles Dickens from their meeting in March 1851 until Dickens' death in June 1870. Wilkie Collins is best known for The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale and The Moonstone. The last has been called the first modern English detective novel. Collins's wo... Read More