Herbert George, Wells - Libros y biografía

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...

"Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation" (Sometimes rendered 'Leadbetter') is a short story written by H. G. Wells in 1894. The story deals with the internal human conflict between rationality and the irrational fear...

"The Star" is an 1897 apocalyptic short story by H.G. Wells.

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...

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...

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...

"Triumphs of a Taxidermist" is an 1894 short story by British writer H. G. Wells. The story was originally published anonymously in the March 3rd and 15th, 1894 issues of the Pall Mall Gazette and later...

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...

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...

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...

Romanzo del 1896 nel quale tuttavia ravvisiamo già la progettualità utopica che in Wells è insieme desiderio di giustizia, di ordine, di efficienza raggiungibili solo attraverso un’evoluzione societaria...

Il pacifismo convinto di Wells si scontra con la vita dei territori in guerra. Come altri uomini di cultura dell’epoca volle recarsi al fronte per avere l’esperienza diretta di cosa significava l’atroce...

Bert Smallways è un ragazzo comune, scontento di sé, che vuole uscire dal piccolo ambiente in cui vive, e sogna; ma il suo orizzonte è così limitato che che anche i suoi sogni sono piccoli. Curioso ed...

Uscito nel 1905 e accolto con entusiasmo (8 ristampe nel primo anno) Anticipazioni evidenzia il convincimento di Wells (derivato dal Comte) che nessuna opera di rifondazione societaria sia possibile senza...

Il romanzo si colloca nel genere fantascienza utopica, narrando, attraverso la lettura di un manoscritto trovato da un giovane, di come il mondo fosse stato sanato dalle sue brutture individuali e collettive...

The novel tells the story of a journey to the moon by the impecunious businessman Mr Bedford and the brilliant but eccentric scientist Dr Cavor. On arrival, Bedford and Cavor find the moon inhabited by...

Bert Smallways n'est pas un héros. Ce serait plutôt Candide propulsé dans la guerre mondiale, une guerre conçue à l'échelle planétaire, en 1908, par un stratège de génie, H.G. Wells, qui invente l'arme...

Des Don Quichotte, chaque époque en voit naître une kyrielle. Au début du siècle, ils enfourchaient un vélo, comme cet Hoopdriver qui se lance sur les routes campagnardes afin de mieux maîtriser sa Rossinante...

Le savant Griffin, après 15 ans de recherches et des dépenses qui l'ont ruiné, invente une formule pour devenir invisible. Après avoir fait l'expérience sur le chat de sa voisine, il décide d'expérimenter...

Les Bunting barbotent sur la plage de Sandgate. Au cours de cette cérémonie du bain, Fred Bunting sauve de la noyade une jeune femme d'une grande beauté. Et voilà l'honorable famille, quelque peu collet...

This masterpiece of science fiction is the fascinating story of Griffin, a scientist who creates a serum to render himself invisible, and his descent into madness that follows.

Un jeune commis de manufacture de Clayton peut aussi devenir un héros romantique. La rencontre de Nettie va lui révéler, avec l'amour absolu qu'il reçoit, la jalousie absolue. Mais cet événement coïncide...

With The Outline of History Wells started a craze that lasted throughout the 1920s for copycat outlines on every conceivable subject. Coming right after the carnage of World War I, the Outline was neither...

"The Country of the Blind" is a short story written by H. G. Wells. It was first published in the April 1904 issue of the Strand Magazine and included in a 1911 collection of Wells's short stories, The...

Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of the First World War, this is a brilliantly compelling account of the evolution of life and the development of the human race. Along the way, Wells considers...

L'écrivain britannique H.G. Wells est surtout connu pour ses récits de science-fiction. Bien que considéré comme le père de la science-fiction contemporaine, il a également été un commentateur avisé de...

This fate is not threatening civilization; it is happening to civilization before our eyes. The ship of civilization is not going to sink in five years' time or in fifty years' time. It is sinking now....

Près de soixante-dix ans avant les missions Apollo et leurs héros, les Armstrong, Cernan, Schmitt et compagnie, Cavor et Bedford alunissaient dans un appareil qui avait déjà une vague ressemblance avec...

Seul survivant d'un naufrage, Edward Prendick est recueilli sur une île des mers du Sud par un personnage des plus singuliers : le docteur Moreau. Il découvre avec terreur que l'île est peuplée de créatures...

This chilling, futuristic novel, written in 1913 and first published the following year, was incredibly prophetic on a major scale. Wells was a genius and visionary, as demonstrated by many of his other...