Herbert George, Wells - Libros y biografía

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...

Considered one of Wells most successful attempts at a social novel in the vein of Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray, Wells’s tale is a panoramic view of an unravelling society. A semi-autobiographical...

For Mr Britling, eccentric and vivacious writer, the summer of 1914 consisted of long, hot days and luxurious house parties with a host of international guests to entertain him. And when he tired of this,...

Dedicated to all schoolmasters and schoolmistresses and every teacher in the world, this re-interpretation of the Book of Job is one of the author’s finest discussion novels. Written in 1918, this is...

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...

A collection of three short stories and two novellas written between 1897 and 1898. All the stories had first been published in various monthly periodicals and this was the first volume to collect these...

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...

Mr. Parham is a university academic of the traditional, classical sort, very much a snob and unhappy with many of the social trends of the time. Sir Bussy Woodcock is a self-made millionaire of sharp...

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...

H.G. Wells is an English author best known as a sci-fi writer, though he is also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, but in...

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...

Arthur Kipps, an orphaned draper’s assistant of humble means, unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money and that is when all his troubles begin. After being left a fortune by a rich uncle, Kipps finds...

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...

„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...

„Marriage” is a surprising story about relationships and people by science fiction legend, H.G. Wells. It features two protagonists: Marjorie Pope, the oldest daughter of a carriage manufacturer whose...

"Je vis des arbres croître et changer comme des bouffées de vapeur ; tantôt roux, tantôt verts ; ils croissaient, s'étendaient, se brisaient et disparaissaient. Je vis d'immenses édifices s'élever, vagues...

A soul-corrupting evil invades the remote English village of Cainsmarsh, infesting the minds of the local residents. Dark events are plaguing its people. An elderly woman stiffens in dread at her own...

This book was written in 1899, and is one of the last science-fiction books Wells wrote before his turn towards social realism in his writing. In this dystopian novel, Graham falls into a coma-like sleep,...

Jedna z najwa?niejszych ?wiatowych powie?ci gatunku science fiction. Opowiada o inwazji Marsjan na Ziemi?, którzy zamierzaj? skolonizowa? B??kitn? Planet?, a z jej mieszka?ców uczyni? po?ywienie. Siej?...

Powie?? science fiction Herberta George’a Wellsa przedstawia perypetie szalonego naukowca, któremu udaje si? wynale?? sposób na uzyskanie niewidzialno?ci. Niestety eksperyment wymyka si? spod kontroli,...

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...