Twenty-one, passionate and headstrong, Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her own life. When her father forbids her attending a fashionable ball, she decides she has no choice but to leave her family home and make a fresh start in London. There, she finds a world of intellectuals, socialists and suffragettes — a place where, as a student in biology at Imperial College, she...
The Invisible Man, science-fiction novel by H.G. Wells, published in 1897. The story concerns the life and death of a scientist named Griffin who has gone mad. Having learned how to make himself invisible, Griffin begins to use his invisibility for nefarious purposes, including murder.
Auckland: The Floating Press — 2009 — 447 p. — ISBN: 978-1-775410-28-7 A Modern Utopia is a 1905 novel by H. G. Wells. Because of the complexity and sophistication of its narrative structure A Modern Utopia has been called "not so much a modern as a postmodern utopia."The novel is best known for its notion that a voluntary order of nobility known as the Samurai could...
London Jonathan Cape 1938 c.363 Stephen Wilbeck narrates the story of his own carefree, travelling life and his love for Dolores in a novel that is, in Wells's words, 'about happiness and about loneliness of spirit.'
This is H. G. Wells' 1940 novel, “Babes in the Darkling Wood - A Novel of Ideas”. Stella has the world at her feet – good looks, brains, and a place at Cambridge University. Together with her admirer Gemini, she becomes interested in the work and mind of a psycho-therapist with exciting new ideas. However, when tragedy encroaches on their lives they soon come to realise that...
"Young Bealby was determined he would not be a servant. So opposed was he to the very idea that he ranted and rallied against his mother and quite wore her down with his protests. Tantrums aside, the young boy had to accept his lot in life - at least for the time being. And so he was sent to Shonts, the big country house, to work as a steward's boy. But Bealby hadn't accounted for...
Boon is a 1915 work of literary satire by H. G. Wells. It purports, however, to be by the fictional character Reginald Bliss, and for some time after publication Wells denied authorship. Boon is best known for its part in Wells's debate on the nature of literature with Henry James, who is caricatured in the book. But in Boon Wells also mocks himself, calling into question and...
Publisher: J.B.Lippincott , New York 1967 First Published: 1934 pp. In his Autobiography H.G.Wells describes his progress from his birth in 1866 as the son of a shop keeper in Bromley to become one of the most influential and celebrated authors of his time in 1934. He was the companion of Balfour , Roosevelt and Stalin. The purpose of his life was to make clear the tendency and...
In the Days of the Comet (1906) is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells in which humanity is "exalted" when a comet causes "the nitrogen of the air, the old azote," to "change out of itself" and become "a respirable gas, differing indeed from oxygen, but helping and sustaining its action, a bath of strength and healing for nerve and brain." The result: "The great Change has come...
Joan and Peter, a 1918 novel by H. G. Wells, is at once a satirical portrait of late-Victorian and Edwardian England, a critique of the English educational system on the eve of World War I, a study of the impact of that war on English society, and a general reflection on the purposes of education. Wells regarded it as "one of the most ambitious" of his novels. The novel begins in...
Light hearted but faithful depiction of life in Folkestone, Hythe and Romney Marsh ( Kent ) in 1900 . Kipps , like H.G.Wells in real life , is apprenticed to a Draper. Is he able to make the most of his opportunities and ascend from his working class origins to the refinement of independent middle class society ? The novel inspired the " West End " ( London ) musical " Half a...
Young, impoverished and ambitious, science student Mr Lewisham is locked in a struggle to further himself through academic achievement. But when his former sweetheart, Ethel Henderson, re-enters his life his strictly regimented existence is thrown into chaos by the resurgence of old passion. Driven by overwhelming desire, he pursues Ethel passionately, only to find that while she...
An extremely pretty girl occupied a second-class compartment in one of those trains which percolate through the rural tranquillities of middle England from Ganford in Oxfordshire to Rumbold Junction in Kent. She was going to join her family at Buryhamstreet after a visit to some Gloucestershire friends. Her father, Mr. Pope, once a leader in the coach-building world and now by...
Men Like Gods is set in the summer of 1921. Its protagonist is Mr. Barnstaple (his first name is either Alfred or William), a journalist working in London and living in Sydenham. He has grown dispirited at a newspaper called The Liberal and resolves to take a holiday. Quitting wife and family, he finds his plans disrupted when his and two other automobiles are accidentally...
The protagonist of the novel, Arnold Blettsworthy, is the scion of a genteel family prominent "in the south and west of England." Blettsworthy's father, however, was an adventurer who married a woman from Madeira. Both his mother and his father die early, and the young Blettsworthy is raised in Cheltenham by an aunt and an uncle who is a liberal Anglican priest. A complacent...
Mr. Britling Sees It Through tells the story of a renowned writer, Mr. Britling, a protagonist who is quite evidently an alter ego of the author. The garrulous, easy-going Mr. Britling lives with family and friends in the fictional village of Matching's Easy, located in the county of Essex, northeast of London. The novel is divided into three parts. Book the First, entitled...
The sequel to " War of the Worlds " examines the potential for cosmic rays from Outer Space to affect the biological evolution of the human race. Are effects of these forces already observable in England and even in members of Mr. Joseph Davis`s own family? Author : Herbert George Wells pp.107 Converted from a free HTML ebook ( Adelaide University , Australia ).
The sequel to " War of the Worlds " is about biological epistemology. To what extent do alien , incomprehensible forces from Outer Space have the potential to shape our very thoughts and biological evolution as a species ? Mr. Joseph Davis reflects and acts! pp.109 Converted from a free HTML ebook ( University of Adelaide , Australia. )
Mr. Parham is a university don with solid right-wing convictions who dreams of finding a rich benefactor to finance a review he can edit. He thinks he has found such a man in Sir Bussy Woodcock, a "crude plutocrat" who makes money at anything to which he puts his hand. In an attempt to foster this acquaintance that goes on for six years, Mr. Parham finds himself involved in...
First Published: 1938 pp.100 Bolaris was the latest and newest of strong men , he and the Reds under Ratzel had torn their vague-minded countrymen into two warring swarms , and slowly he was winning his way to an unqualified dictatorship.
London Hutchinsons 1932 c.414 Mr Wells here tells the story of the inner imaginative life of a very ordinary human being, who protected himself by a denser and denser fabric of self-delusion from the realization of his own insufficiencies and inconsistencies until he became, at last, a hopeless impostor.
London. Methuen and Company . 1937 . c.39 A voice from beyond space and time becomes manifest in the University of Camford and subjects human life and values to a sympathetic but unsparing scrutiny. In the 1930s the University was in the process of founding new departments and introducing new subjects such as experimental psychology. In the final chapter the butler makes the...
The Chronic Argonauts was first published by the Royal College of Science in 1888. The motifs of the story are a remote location in North Wales , superstitious villagers , a derelict house in which dark events have occurred and the idea which made H.G.Wells famous. Author: Herbert George Wells ( 1866 - 1946 ) pp 24 English text
The Chronic Argonauts was first published by the Royal College of Science in 1888. The motifs of the story are a remote location in North Wales , superstitious villagers , a derelict house in which dark events have occurred , a solitary and eccentric inventor and the idea which made H.G.Wells famous. Author: Herbert George Wells ( 1866 - 1946 ) PP24 English text
Delphi Classics, 2015. — 19188 p. Кто из нас не читал Машина времени, Человек-невидимка, Война миров Герберта Уэллса. Таких людей, наверное, нет (не будем здесь говорить о совсем молодых людях). Представляем полное собрание сочинений замечательного фантаста и литератора Герберта Уэллса. Меньше месяца он не дожил до своего 80-летия. За свою весьма насыщенную жизнь им было...
Delphi Classics, 2015. — 19188 p. Кто из нас не читал Машина времени, Человек-невидимка, Война миров Герберта Уэллса. Таких людей, наверное, нет (не будем здесь говорить о совсем молодых людях). Представляем полное собрание сочинений замечательного фантаста и литератора Герберта Уэллса. Меньше месяца он не дожил до своего 80-летия. За свою весьма насыщенную жизнь им было...
Three hundred miles and more from Chimborazo, one hundred from the snows of Cotopaxi, in the wildest wastes of Ecuador's Andes, there lies that mysterious mountain valley, cut off from the world of men, the Country of the Blind.
Рассказ писателя-фантаста Герберта Уэллса. Страна слепых. Альтернативный взгляд на поговорку "В стране слепых одноглазый - король".
This story is a satire in allegorical form. In its symbolism it has affinities with The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) & Mr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island (1928). This allegorical satire about a man fleeing from his evil dreams was written under the influence of the Spanish Civil War. The croquet player, comfortably sipping a vermouth, listens to the strange & terrible tale of the...
The protagonist, Lionel Wallace possesses a vivid imagination.
One day he discovers a door in a wall leading to an enchanted garden. But is he brave enough to turn his back on the world he knows for a better life?
The story opens aboard a train, when an unwell-looking man strikes up a conversation with the narrator when he sees him reading a book about dreams. The white-faced man says that he has little time for dream analysis because, he says, his dreams are killing him. He goes on to tell how he has been experiencing consecutive dreams of an unspecified future time in which he is a major...
The narrator is a London businessman who withdraws to the countryside to write a play, by which he hopes to alleviate his financial problems. Bedford rents a small countryside house in Lympne, in Kent, where he wants to work in peace. He is bothered every afternoon, however, at precisely the same time, by a passer-by making odd noises. After two weeks Bedford accosts the man, who...
The Food of the Gods is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1904. Wells called it "a fantasia on the change of scale in human affairs...I had hit upon [the idea] while working out the possibilities of the near future in a book of speculations called Anticipations (1901)." There have been various B-movie adaptations. The novel is about a group of...
Two stuffy English scientists, always looking to further their scientific knowledge, create a substance called Herakleophorbia, which in its fourth incarnation – known as Herakleophorbia IV – has the special ability of making things increase greatly in size. As the scientists begin experimentation on some chicks, the substance is misused by some country folk who don’t take it...
The Forum Magazine London 1930 c4 Invited to comb through all history and pick out the twelve greatest world events Mr. Wells agreed and discovered when he had finished that he had listed fifteen. This unexpected generosity was due not to Mr. Wells` oft confessed liberalism but to necessity. " I cannot do it in less " he writes.
The History of Mr. Polly is a 1910 comic novel by H. G. Wells. Alfred Polly lives in the imaginary town of Fishbourne in Kent (not to be confused with Fishbourne, West Sussex or Fishbourne, Isle of Wight – the town in the story is thought to be based on Sandgate, Kent where Wells lived for several years). The novel begins in medias res by presenting a miserable Mr. Polly: "He...
The Holy Terror presents itself as a biography of Rudolf "Rud" Whitlow, who is born with such an aggressive temperament that scarcely is he born but his monthly nurse exclaims: "It's a Holy Terror!" Rud Whitlow goes on to become the founder of the first world state, long a Wellsian dream. The Holy Terror is divided into four books. The events of Book One take place in the...
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, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and invents a way to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it neither absorbs nor reflects light and thus...
The Invisible Man (1897) is one of the most famous science fiction novels of all time. Written by H.G. Wells (1866-1946), it tells the story of a scientist who discovers the secret of invisibility and uses it on himself. The story begins as the Invisible Man, with a bandaged face and a heavy coat and gloves, takes a train to lodge in a country inn whilst he tries to discover the...
The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells. It is told from the point of view of a man named Edward Prendick who is shipwrecked, rescued by a passing boat, and then left at the ship's destination by the crew along with the ship's cargo of exotic animals. The island is home to a scientist named Doctor Moreau, who is conducting bizarre and...
Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettable movies, this early work of H. G. Wells was greeted in 1896 by howls of protest from reviewers, who found it horrifying and blasphemous. They wanted to know more about the wondrous possibilities of science shown in his first book, The Time Machine, not its potential for misuse and...
The Book of a Film. — First UK edition: Ernest Benn Ltd., London 1929; first US edition: Doubleday Doran, New York, 1929. Wells wrote this film scenario as an effort to spread his ideas for a world state to the cinema audience. When he was unable to find a sponsor to produce the film, he converted it into this novel. The central issue is the question — Is one man justified in...
Book the first.
The making of a man.
Concerning a book that was never written.
Bromstead and my father.
Scholastic.
Adolescence.
Book the second.
Margaret.
Margaret in Staffordshire.
Margaret in London.
Margaret in Venice.
The house in Westminster.
Book the third.
The heart of politics.
The riddle for the statesman.
Seeking associates.
Secession.
The besetting of...
First Published : 1939.pp.134 " The New World Order : Whether it is obtainable , how it can be obtained and what sort of world a world at peace will have to be. " In 1895 and even until 1914, " We imagined the Franco-German War of 1870-71 and the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78 were the final conflicts between Great Powers. " " We believed war was shrinking to mere expeditionary...
First Published :1928. Also published as " What are we to do with our lives? ". pp.56 " Intelligent people were waking up to the indignity and absurdity of being endangered , restrained and impoverished by uncritical adhesion to traditional government , traditional ways of economic life and traditional forms of behaviour. " That awakening " amounted to a protest first mental...
The protagonist is the novel's first-person narrator, Stephen Stratton. The Passionate Friends is written as if addressed to Stephen's eldest son, who is on the verge of adolescence. Stephen is the only child of a rector who loses his faith due to Darwinism. The most important relationship of Stephen's life is with the Lady Mary Christian (later Lady Mary Justin), a beautiful...
This book is as funny as it is thought provoking. H. G. Wells takes us on a very entertaining and profound journey via a character named William who insists on living life nobly and thoroughly. Even as a child William had decided that this was the only aristocratic way to live and was determined to do so at all costs, and cost him it does. William gets into all sorts of hilarious...
The Sea Lady is a novel involving a mermaid who comes ashore in Edwardian England. Based on past knowledge gleaned from literature cast into the sea, and with the help of newly made human friends, she attempts to become part of well-mannered society. The Sea Lady, and serves to explain the ideas of civil death and every citizen's acting as a public servant, and the concept of...
H.G. Wells was so charmed by Margaret Sanger that he based The Secret Places of the Heart on his time with her. The novel - a thinly-veiled autobiography - depicts an English gentleman, Sir Richard Hardy, who is attempting to sort out his marital problems while he travels the English countryside in the company of a psychiatrist. The Secret Places of the Heart was, in many ways, a...
This story is one of mind boggling possibilities and shows an insite to how the world was seen by H G Wells in his insight to the future. To some degree he has already been vindicated with some of the things he foresaw. This story although written many nyears ago is till worthy of a read and one to compare with the modern writers who write about the future.
The Sleeper Awakes (1910) is a dystopian science fiction novel by H. G. Wells about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London where he has become the richest man in the world. The main character awakes to see his dreams realised, and the future revealed to him in all its horrors and malformities. The novel is a rewritten version...
The Soul of a Bishop tells the story of a spiritual crisis that leads Edward Scrope, Lord Bishop of Princhester, to give up his diocese in England's industrial heartland and leave the Anglican Church. Troubled during World War I by doctrinal doubts and a sense of the irrelevance of his Anglicism as well as nervousness and insomnia, a crisis is precipitated by a visit to a wealthy...
First Published: 1897. pp.19 When the orbit of Neptune became erratic and a faint remote speck of light appeared in the region of the perturbed planet these observations seemed of little import. However..
The biography of Frederick William Sanderson (1857-1922) headmaster of Oundle school. It is the only biography Wells wrote. Sanderson was a personal friend, having met Wells in 1914 when his sons George Philip ('Gip'), born in 1901 and Frank Richard, born in 1903, became pupils at Oundle School, of which Sanderson was headmaster from 1892 to 1922. To tell his story is to...
1895.
120 pages.
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 burned brightly, and the soft radiance of the incandescent lights in the lilies of silver caught the bubbles that flashed and passed in our glasses. Our chairs,...
Герберт Уэллс. Машина времени. В оригинале. 56 стр. English novelist, historian and science writer Herbert George Wells abandoned teaching and launched his literary career with a series of highly successful science-fiction novels. "The Time Machine" was the first of a number of these imaginative literary inventions. First published in 1895, the novel follows the adventures of a...
The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 for the first time and later adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It indirectly inspired many more works of fiction in many media. This 32,000 word story is generally credited with the popularisation...
The Undying Fire, a 1919 novel by H. G. Wells, is a modern retelling of the story of Job. Like the Book of Job, it consists of a prologue in heaven, an exchange of speeches with four visitors, a dialogue between the protagonist and God, and an epilogue in which the protagonist's fortunes are restored. The novel is dedicated "to All Schoolmasters and Schoolmistresses and every...
The War in the Air, a military science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, written in four months in 1907 and serialised and published in 1908 in The Pall Mall Magazine, is like many of Wells's works notable for its prophetic ideas, images, and concepts—in this case, the use of the aircraft for the purpose of warfare and the coming of World War I. The novel's hero is Bert Smallways, a...
The War of the Worlds (1898) is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. It describes the experiences of an unnamed narrator who travels through the suburbs of London as the Earth is invaded by Martians. It is one of the earliest stories that details a conflict between mankind and an alien race.
The War of the Worlds (1898) is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. It describes the experiences of an unnamed narrator who travels through the suburbs of London as the Earth is invaded by Martians. It is one of the earliest stories that details a conflict between mankind and an alien race. The War of the Worlds is split into two parts, Book one: The Coming of the Martians,...
London, William Heinemann, 1898. — 320 p. This is a scan of the first edition of the book. Book I. - The coming of the martians. The eve of the war The falling star On horsell common The cylinder unscrews The heat-ray The heat-ray in the chobham road I reached home Friday night The fighting begins In the storm At the window What i saw of the destruction of weybridge and...
Роман «Человек–невидимка» заслуженно считается одним из лучших произведений научной фантастики, созданных писателем. The Coming of the Martians. 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 busied themselves about their...
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. The Wheels of Chance was written at the height of the cycling craze (1890–1905), when practical, comfortable bicycles first became widely and cheaply available and before the rise of the automobile (see History of the bicycle). The advent...
Sir Isaac Harman, international Bread and Cake magnate, suffers an onslaught of women. Waitresses strike at his London tea shops; invading dowagers drive him into hiding in his garden shed; his suffragist sister-in-law nabs his complimentary tickets to a Liberal meeting and goes on the rampage. Trembling, he locks up his mild young wife and underlines passages in The Taming of the...
The Wonderful Visit tells how an angel spends a little more than a week in southern England. He is at first mistaken for a bird because of his dazzling polychromatic plumage, for he is "neither the Angel of religious feeling nor the Angel of popular belief," but rather "the Angel of Italian art." As a result, he is hunted and shot in the wing by an amateur ornithologist, the Rev....
A speech by H.G.Wells given to the London University Labour Party on November 3 1922. The Russian Revolution and the debts incurred in the World War of 1914-1918 led to a decline in the economic activity of Europe. The solution to unemployment is a Capital Levy on the fortunes of the rich. ( In the subsequent 50 years paper money and inflation had the effect of a tax of that...
The World of William Clissold is a 1926 novel by H. G. Wells published initially in three volumes. The first volume was published in September to coincide with Wells's sixtieth birthday, and the second and third volumes followed at monthly intervals. As its subtitle suggests, The World of William Clissold is not a conventional novel. Only slightly more than half its pages are...
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 of some contemporary force or group of forces. The
World Set Free was written under the immediate shadow of the
Great War. Every intelligent person in the world felt that...
A scientist invents a time machine and uses it to travel hundreds of thousands of years into the future, where he discovers the childlike Eloi and the hideous underground Morlocks.
Tono-Bungay is narrated by George Ponderevo, who is persuaded to help develop the business of selling Tono-Bungay, a patent medicine created by his ambitious uncle Edward. George devotes seven years to organising the production and manufacture of a product which he believes to be "a damned swindle". He then quits day-to-day involvement with the enterprise in favour of aeronautics....
Graham, an Englishman living in London in 1897 takes drugs to cure insomnia and falls into a coma. He wakes up in 2100. He later learns that he has inherited huge wealth and that his money has been put into a trust. Over the years, the trustees, the "White Council", have used his wealth to establish a vast political and economic world order. When he wakes Graham is disoriented....
Insomnia.
The trance.
The awakening.
The sound of a tumult.
The moving ways.
The hall of the atlas.
In the silent rooms.
The roof spaces.
The people march.
The battle of the darkness.
The old man who knew everything.
Ostrog.
The end of the old order.
From the crow’S nest.
Prominent people.
The aerophile.
Three days.
Graham remembers.
Ostrog’S point of view.
In...
You Can`t be too Careful. A Sample of Life 1901-1951. The life of Edward Albert Tewler represents the generation from 1900-1945 with similar realism as Charles Dickens depicts life in Victorian England. INTRODUCTION—PLAIN COMMON SENSE BOOK THE FIRST: THE BIRTH AND EARLY UPBRINGING OF EDWARD ALBERT TEWLER Darling Bud Mrs Humbelay Marvels Mr Myame Deplores Sin Animalism Of...
Страниц: 112 Год издания: 2008 Язык: Английский Книга Герберта Уэллса впервые рассказала жителям Земли о том, какова на самом деле Красная планета, и вслед за английским писателем тема Войны миров захватила умы миллионов людей.
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