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H. G. Wells was one of the founders of science fiction and his novels have remained extremely popular since they were first released.
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Similar in vein, a more opaque story than Frankenstein, and with a more indeterminate morality surrounding the main character, who is, after all, a crackpot murderer, but eliciting perhaps the same complex reactions toward him and the other characters at the book’s tragic ending.
From Robin's list on classics that expose the cruelty of society.
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