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Most striking, perhaps, in their general appearance was the disproportion between the legs of these creatures and the length of their bodies; and yet… - H. G. Wells
" "Most striking, perhaps, in their general appearance was the disproportion between the legs of these creatures and the length of their bodies; and yet — so relative is our idea of grace — my eye became habituated to their forms, and at last I even fell in with their persuasion that my own long thighs were ungainly.
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About H. G. Wells
Herbert George Wells (September 21 1866 – August 13 1946) was a British writer most famous for his science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man and The Time Machine; also for Kipps, The History of Mr. Polly and other social satires.
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Pen Names:
Reginald Bliss
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Septimus Browne
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Sosthenes Smith
Birth Name:
Herbert George Wells
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Wells, Herbert George
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H.G. Wells
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Herbert Wells
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Herbert G. Wells
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No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
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