George Herbert: 288 books

"The Red Room" is a short gothic story written by H. G. Wells in 1894. It was first published in the March 1896 edition of "The Idler" magazine.

The buying of orchids always has in it a certain speculative flavour. You have before you the brown shrivelled lump of tissue, and for the rest you must trust your judgment, or the auctioneer, or your good-luck, as your taste may incline. The plant may be moribund or dead, or it may be just a respectable...

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 Hugo Gernsback) of "The Father of Science Fiction".

Ένας γενναίος επισκέπτης εξερευνητής αντιμετωπίζει ένα μέλλον που επιβαρύνεται με τις μεγαλύτερες ελπίδες μας ... και τους σκοτεινότερους φόβους μας. Μια έλξη του...

"A Deal in Ostriches" is a short story by the British writer H. G. Wells. It is a cautionary tale about simple human greed. The taxidermist of Wells’ story "Triumphs of a Taxidermist" (1894) makes a return appearance as the narrator of the story. The story was originally published...

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 Hugo Gernsback) of "The Father of Science Fiction".

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"The Crystal Egg" is a science fiction short story written by H. G. Wells in 1897. The story tells of a shop owner, named Mr. Cave, who finds a strange crystal egg that serves as a window into the planet Mars. The story was written the same year in which Wells was serializing...

Ein genialer Erfinder im London des ausgehenden 19. Jahrhunderts entwickelt eine Maschine, mit der er in der Zeit reisen kann. Bei einer abendlichen Gesellschaft erzählt er Freunden und Wissenschaftskollegen von der sensationellen Erfindung. Während die sich noch wundern und ihn für geistig umnachtet...

Auf einer Schiffspassage im Pazifischen Ozean vor der Küste Südamerikas wird Edward Prendick nach einem Streit mit dem Käpt'n in einem Beiboot ausgesetzt. Er kann sich auf eine nahe Insel retten, auf der andere Passagiere des Segelschiffs an Land gehen. Dort findet er eine seltsame, höchst verstörende...

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 himself in a position to marry Helen Walshingham. His main problem is that he is uneducated, knowing...

"The Cone" is a short story by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895 in "Unicorn". It was intended to be "the opening chapter of a sensational novel set in the Five Towns", later abandoned. The story is set at an ironworks in Stoke-on-Trent, in Staffordshire. An...

Wells’s treatise on education is set in the region of Camford (Cambridge/Oxford), and tells of a visitor who proves that education can save the world from destruction. The story centres around a Utopian ’ventriloquist’ who subjects human life and in particular its treatment by the University...