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Although most famous for his sci-fi, Wells’ best work often deals with ordinary people having big thoughts in picturesque settings. „The Passionate Friends” is a fine representative example of this. Wells...
„The Brothers – A Story.” Herbert George Wells was a prolific English writer who wrote in a variety of genres, including the novel, politics, history, and social commentary. Wells returned to a literary...
Le héros, « l’Explorateur du Temps », a inventé une machine qui lui permet de se déplacer dans le temps, exactement comme on le fait dans l’espace. C’est ainsi qu’il débute par un « voyage » en l’an 802...
"Je voyais maintenant que c'étaient les créatures les moins terrestres qu'il soit possible de concevoir. Ils étaient formés d'un grand corps rond, ou plutôt d'une grande tête ronde d'environ quatre pieds...
Un scientifique découvre une formule d’invisibilité qu’il essaie sur lui-même. Profitant de son nouvel état, il commet des vols en tout anonymat. Mais il ne parvient pas à trouver l’antidote : le voilà...
Derrière son apparente légèreté se cache un lourd secret…Un étranger décide de poser ses valises dans un hôtel situé dans le tranquille et petit village d’Ipen. Les habitants sont très vite perturbés...
Sous ses légers bandages se cache un lourd secret...Alors que le paisible village d’Ipen imagine qu’il est hanté par un fantôme, Griffin, l’Homme invisible, est violemment chassé. Trouvant refuge chez...
Prêts pour un voyage dans la 4e dimension ?Londres, fin du XIXe siècle. Un groupe d’amis écoute les aventures de celui qui prétend être le premier voyageur du temps. Son récit débute en l’an 802 701....
Quan es compleixen 125 anys de la publicació, el debat transhumanístic torna aquest clàssic a l'actualitat. L'illa del doctor Moreau és una de les novel·les més pertorbadores que mai s'hagin escrit. Tal...
Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was one of the most popular British writers of all time. Prolific in many genres, he wrote more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included...
Towards the end of his career, Wells write this book, in which he outlined his vision of Utopia. This is the story of a Mr. Barnstaple, an everyday man, who finds himself propelled into a parallel universe...
This charming, little-known fantasy by the author of „The Time Machine” and „The War of the Worlds” is also a sharply satirical look at the mores and moral of Edwardian England. During a family outing...
•A máquina do tempo, primeiro romance de H.G.Wells e sucesso imediato de público e crítica, é o precursor da moderna ficção científica e ''pai'' dos relatos de viagens no tempo. Sua vasta obra também...
Il volume, del 1905, contiene una scelta di 16 racconti pubblicati in originale su raccolte diverse. Tra questi alcuni classici della narrativa fantastica, come The strange orchid, The lord of dynamos...
Edizione integrale Originariamente pubblicato a Londra nel 1897, La guerra dei mondi resta l’opera più famosa di Wells ed è considerato uno dei primi romanzi del genere fantascientifico. Con i suoi alieni...
Lo spunto iniziale per motivare un viaggio nel futuro è estremamente simile a quello, pubblicato dieci anni prima, di Looking backward di Edward Bellamy. Ma mentre il protagonista del romanzo di Bellamy...
Questo famoso romanzo di Wells è solitamente considerato un romanzo di fantascienza per ragazzi o poco più; benché si possa leggerlo in quest’ottica, in realtà vi si manifesta anche la visione sociale...
La macchina del tempo è un romanzo di fantascienza di H.G. Wells pubblicato nel 1895. A Wells è attribuita la diffusione del concetto di viaggio nel tempo per mezzo di un veicolo che permette a chi lo...
"The Truth About Pyecraft" is a British fantasy-comedy short story by H.G. Wells. It was originally published in "The Strand Magazine" (April 1903), and then included in the "Twelve Stories and a Dream"...
H. G. Wells was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction. His writing career spanned more than sixty years, and his early science fiction novels earned him the title (along with Jules Verne and...
A fictional biography of Rudolf „Rud” Whitlow, who builds a political party that slowly becomes a world dominant dictatorship. Wells wrote the work just before World War II as Hitler was consolidating...
Stella has it all – looks, intelligence and an undergraduate place at Cambridge, not to mention Gemini, her fervent admirer at Oxford. Stella and Gemini, the two babes of the story, come increasingly...
Mr. Lewisham is an ambitious young teacher who has grand plans for his future. Indeed he has written up a Plan or Schema as he calls it and has committed himself to daily study to improve himself. We...
„You Can’t be Too Careful” is a sketch of one way of life – the life path, cowardly man, in fear, made a lot of dirty tricks. He never forgot that „necessary caution”, and helped unleash the Second world...
"The Wheels of Chance" is an early comic novel by H. G. Wells about an August 1895 cycling holiday, somewhat in the style of "Three Men in a Boat". In 1922 it was adapted into a silent film "The Wheels...
"The Empire of the Ants" is a 1905 short story by H. G. Wells about the littleness of humanity and the tenuousness of the dominion "Homo sapiens" enjoys on Earth. A 1977 film, "Empire of the Ants", was...
Like „The Time Machine”, this book may be considered as a further romance of the fourth dimension. „The Wonderful Visit” was paid by an angel, who by some accident, had got out of the angel into the human...
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