G H Wells: 909 books

Published in 1908, in an era when airplanes were merely a rumor and airships, like hot air balloons and blimps, ruled the skies, Wells’s novel is notable for its prophetic ideas, including the use of the airplane for warfare, the coming of a world war, and the development of a brutal, feudal society after the war’s destruction.

The book readdresses the idea of the existence of Martians, famously written about in The War of the Worlds (1898). The dialog of Star-Begotten makes brief cursory references Wells's earlier novel The War of the Worlds, referring to it as having been written by "Conan Doyle or one of those people"....

As the Great War ground to an end, Wells looked toward the future, advocating a “League of Nations” that would prevent another global conflict. He considers imperialism, labor, democracy, the monarchy, and other topics, prescribing how the League could work. A fascinating study in what might have been.

Originally published in 1897, Thirty Strange Stories contains such well-known stories as “The Triumphs of a Taxidermist,” about the outrageous exploits, both authentic and fraudulent, of a taxidermist, who then reappears in “A Deal of Ostriches,” a tale of a con man’s exploitation of human...

Throughout his career, Wells kept his eye on the future. In 1901 he used this book to make predictions for the twentieth century. He foresaw the development of mass transportation and the automobile, air power in combat, and even the decline of permanent marriage. His hits and misses make for fascinating reading.

One of Wells’s first forays outside the science fiction genre, Love and Mr. Lewisham tells of a young, penniless science student whose carefully structured life is thrown into disarray when an old passion, in the person of a former sweetheart, re-enters his life.

"Temo di non riuscire a descrivervi le singolari sensazioni che si hanno viaggiando nel tempo: sono eccessivamente spiacevoli. Sembra di essere sulle montagne russe: si ha cioè la sensazione di precipitare inevitabilmente con la testa all’ingiù! Provavo, inoltre, l’orribile presentimento...

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This box set includes all the seven volumes of the collection.

Many prominent Christians insist that the church must yield to contemporary evolutionary theory and therefore modify traditional biblical ideas about the creation of life. They argue that God used—albeit in an undetectable way—evolutionary mechanisms to produce all forms of life. Featuring two...

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal...

In celebration of our history’s rich oral tradition of storytelling, we invite you to bring your flashlight up to your chin and get ready to make your listeners want to sleep with a nightlight. Through the Flashlight’s Beam is a collection of the very best scary story classics including some of the...

Einige Zeit hindurch war Mr. Parham dem Gedanken, einer spiritistischen Sitzung beizuwohnen, wozu Sir Bussy Woodcock ihn aufgefordert hatte, in stärkstem Maße abgeneigt. Mr. Parham wollte mit Spiritismus nichts zu schaffen haben. Gleichzeitig aber wollte er seine Beziehungen zu Sir Bussy Woodcock...

Die Blettsworthys, meine Familie, sind allezeit sehr gewissenhafte und vornehme Leute gewesen, die Blettsworthys aus Wiltshire vielleicht sogar in noch höherem Maße als die aus Sussex. Man möge es mir verzeihen, wenn ich einiges über sie sage, ehe ich meine eigene Geschichte beginne. Ich bin stolz...

Die Blettsworthys, meine Familie, sind allezeit sehr gewissenhafte und vornehme Leute gewesen, die Blettsworthys aus Wiltshire vielleicht sogar in noch höherem Maße als die aus Sussex. Man möge es mir verzeihen, wenn ich einiges über sie sage, ehe ich meine eigene Geschichte beginne. Ich bin stolz...