H. G. Wells - Libros y biografía

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 man with the white face entered the carriage at Rugby. He moved slowly in spite of the urgency of his porter, and even while he was still on the platform I noted how ill he seemed. He dropped into...

Two eternal beings, magnificently enhaloed, the one in a blinding excess of white radiance and the other in a bewildering extravagance of colours, converse amidst stupendous surroundings. These surroundings...

The Time Machine The War of the Worlds The Island of Doctor Moreau The Invisible Man "But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be inhabited? . . . Are we or they Lords of the World? . . . And...

The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. His grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his usually pale face was flushed and animated. The fire...

The Invisible Man is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. Originally serialized in Pearson's Weekly in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin,...

"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....

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...

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...

The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first serialized in 1897 by Pearson's Magazine in the UK and by Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. Written between 1895...

La Guerre des mondes (The War of the Worlds) est un roman de science-fiction écrit par H. G. Wells, publié en 1898. C'est une des premières oeuvres d'imagination dont le sujet est l'humanité confrontée...

Der Ich-Erzähler Prendick gelangt nach einer Schiffshavarie auf eine kleine Pazifikinsel. Dort beobachtet er Wesen, die sowohl tierische, als auch menschliche Züge tragen. Es sind Schöpfungen des Dr....

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...

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...

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...

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...

If you (presuming you are of the sex that does such things)-if you had gone into the Drapery Emporium-which is really only magnificent for shop-of Messrs. Antrobus & Co.-a perfectly fictitious "Co.,"...

Sammelband mit fünf Werken · Der Diktator · Menschen, Göttern gleich · Mr. Blettsworthy auf der Insel Rampole · Einstweilen · Das Kristall-Ei (Erzählungen)

The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 and written as a frame narrative. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel...

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....

Es ist das Jahr 4000. Ein Mann hat einen Traum, der ihn ins 19. Jahrhundert zurückversetzt. Mit dem gut zweitausendjährigen Abstand blickt er auf Sitten, Gesellschaftsstruktur, Gesetzgebung, Wirtschaft...

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 Country of the Blind and Other Stories is a collection of thirty-three fantasy and science fiction short stories written by the English author H. G. Wells between 1894 and 1909. It was first published...

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,...

As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine-leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventures...

The buying of orchids always has in it a certain speculative flavour. You have before you the brown shrivelled lump of tissue, and for the rest you must trust your judgment, or the auctioneer, or your...

'This Misery of Boots' is a compelling non-fiction book by H.G. Wells. The book uniquely and entertainingly puts forth the virtues of socialism and criticises working conditions in 20th Century Britain....