H. G. Wells - Libros y biografía

As I sit writing in my study, I can hear our Jane bumping her way downstairs with a brush and dust-pan. She used in the old days to sing hymn tunes, or the British national song for the time being, to...

I SAW a gray-haired man, a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing. He seemed to be in a room in a tower, very high, so that through the tall window on his left one perceived only distances,...

A Short History of the World is a period-piece non-fictional historic work. It summarises the scientific knowledge of the time regarding the history of Earth and life and begins with its origins, goes...

THE WORLD SET FREE was written in 1913 and published early in 1914, and it is the latest of a series of three fantasias of possibility, stories which all turn on the possible developments in the future...

Dealing with political issues of the time the novel was written and concentrating specifically on feminist issues, through the course this novel the heroine matures from an innocent and naïve girl to...

"This again," said the Bacteriologist, slipping a glass slide under the microscope, "is a preparation of the celebrated Bacillus of cholera-the cholera germ." The pale-faced man peered down the microscope....

Der utopische Roman »Im Jahr des Kometen« von H. G. Wells enthält eine recht umfassende Kritik am frühindustriellen England des 19. Jahrhunderts. Der Roman entwickelt darüber hinaus das Bild einer neuen...

Der geniale Wissenschaftlicher Cavor entwickelt eine Kugel, mit der er durch das Universum fliegen kann. Bei seiner ersten Forschungsmission zum Mond lässt er sich von dem jungen Schriftsteller Bedford...

There was, until a year ago, a little and very grimy-looking shop near Seven Dials, over which, in weather-worn yellow lettering, the name of "C. Cave, Naturalist and Dealer in Antiquities," was inscribed....

Denne klassiske science fiction-roman er for længst faktuelt antikveret, men kan stadig nydes for hyggens og den elementære spændings skyld. Den bringes her i den danske førsteudgave fra 1912, der med...

The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat who...

The maid was a young woman of great natural calmness; she was accustomed to let in visitors who had this air of being annoyed and finding one umbrella too numerous for them. It mattered nothing to her...

H.G. Wells' A Modern Utopia is a novel that attempts to explore the possibilities of a utopia in a modern age, while recognizing the complexities of contemporary conditions. The work employs an intricate...

The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a seminal work of political philosophy, drawing upon the theories of its namesake and exploring the relationship between power and morality. Written at the dawn of...

Als Graham erwacht, hat er 203 Jahre lang geschlafen. Er ist der Hauptcharakter in H. G. Wells »Wenn der Schläfer erwacht«. Wahrscheinlich ist Graham 1899 eingeschlafen, denn das ist das letzte Jahr in...

The maid was a young woman of great natural calmness; she was accustomed to let in visitors who had this air of being annoyed and finding one umbrella too numerous for them. It mattered nothing to her...

On the Night of the Strange Bird, many people at Sidderton (and some nearer) saw a Glare on the Sidderford moor. But no one in Sidderford saw it, for most of Sidderford was abed. All day the wind had...

In truth the mastery of flying was the work of thousands of men-this man a suggestion and that an experiment, until at last only one vigorous intellectual effort was needed to finish the work. But the...

»Der Krieg der Welten« von H. G. Wells ist ein spannend geschriebener Klassiker der Science Fiction. Eine hoch entwickelte Marszivilisation greift die Erde an. Schnell brechen die Marsianer den menschlichen...

The opening chapter does not concern itself with Love-indeed that antagonist does not certainly appear until the third-and Mr. Lewisham is seen at his studies. It was ten years ago, and in those days...

One confidential evening, not three months ago, Lionel Wallace told me this story of the Door in the Wall. And at the time I thought that so far as he was concerned it was a true story. He told it me...

In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very...

"LITTLE WARS" is the game of kings-for players in an inferior social position. It can be played by boys of every age from twelve to one hundred and fifty-and even later if the limbs remain sufficiently...

Das lange Experimentieren zahlt sich für den Wissenschaftler Griffin aus: Er entwickelt eine Substanz, die unsichtbar macht. Machtphantasien steigen in ihm auf und trüben seinen Geist. Er kann kaum noch...

ON February the First 1887, the Lady Vain was lost by collision with a derelict when about the latitude 1° S. and longitude 107° W. On January the Fifth, 1888-that is eleven months and four days after-my...

One afternoon, at low water, Mr. Isbister, a young artist lodging at Boscastle, walked from that place to the picturesque cove of Pentargen, desiring to examine the caves there. Halfway down the precipitous...

"LITTLE WARS" is the game of kings-for players in an inferior social position. It can be played by boys of every age from twelve to one hundred and fifty-and even later if the limbs remain sufficiently...

The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little...

The book's protagonist is an English scientist and gentleman inventor living in Richmond, Surrey in Victorian England, and identified by a narrator simply as the Time Traveller. The narrator recounts...

The War of the Worlds is a military science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. It first appeared in serialized form in 1897, published simultaneously in Pearson's Magazine in the UK and Cosmopolitan magazine...