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Book cover of German Influence on English Education
by W H G Armytage
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012

This book traces the impact of German educationists, such as Froebel and Herbart, on practice in Britain while stressing the important and lasting influence of German scientists, technologists, philosophers, sociologists and historians on our educational system. This record of interplay between the...
Book cover of The World Set Free
by H. G. Wells
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018

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...
Book cover of L'Île du docteur Moreau (Cronos Classics)
by H.G.Wells, Cronos Classics
Language: French
Release Date: June 3, 2017

Unique survivant d'un naufrage, Edward Prendick est recueilli sur une île des mers du sud par un personnage singulier: le docteur Moreau. Il découvre avec effroi que l'île est peuplée de créatures monstrueuses, mi-hommes mi-bêtes, vivant sous la domination de Moreau et de Montgomery, son assistant...
Book cover of Tono-Bungay
by H.G. Wells
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2005

Presented as a miraculous cure-all, Tono-Bungay is in fact nothing other than a pleasant-tasting liquid with no positive effects. Nonetheless, when the young George Ponderevo is employed by his Uncle Edward to help market this ineffective medicine, he finds his life overwhelmed by its sudden success....
Book cover of The New Machiavelli
by H.G. Wells
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2005

A successful author and Liberal MP with a loving and benevolent wife, Richard Remington appears to be a man to envy. But underneath his superficial contentment, he is far from happy with either his marriage or the politics of his party. The New Machiavelli describes the disarray into which his life...
Book cover of Mythology of the Soul (Psychology Revivals)

Mythology of the Soul (Psychology Revivals)

A Research into the Unconscious from Schizophrenic Dreams and Drawings

by H.G. Baynes
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015

Originally published in 1940, this classic study of two schizophrenic case-histories further opened up the seemingly intractable problem of this condition; a task preceded by Jung’s own Psychology of Dementia Praecox. It was Baynes’s grasp of the meaning of the symbol coupled with his wide scholarship...
Book cover of A Modern Utopia
by H G Wells
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2005

While walking in the Swiss Alps, two English travellers fall into a space-warp, and suddenly find themselves in another world. In many ways the same as our own - even down to the characters that inhabit it - this new planet is still somehow radically different, for the two walkers are now upon a Utopian...
Book cover of The Island of Doctor Moreau
by H. G. Wells
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017

'The creatures I had seen were not men, had never been men. They were animals, humanised animals...' A shipwrecked Edward Prendick finds himself stranded on a remote Noble island, the guest of a notorious scientist, Doctor Moreau. Disturbed by the cries of animals in pain, and by his encounters with...
Book cover of The Invisible Man

The Invisible Man

A Grotesque Romance

by H. G. Wells
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016

'The man's become inhuman ... He has cut himself off from his kind. His blood be upon his own head.' One night in the depths of winter, a bizarre and sinister stranger wrapped in bandages and eccentric clothing arrives in a remote English village. His peculiar, secretive activities in the room he...
Book cover of Love and Mr Lewisham
by H.G. Wells
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2005

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...
Book cover of The Chronic Argonauts (Phoenix Classics)
by H. G. Wells, Phoenix Classics
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017

This book contains several tables of HTML content to make reading easier. This brief story begins with a third-person account of the arrival of a mysterious inventor to the peaceful Welsh town of Llyddwdd. Dr. Nebogipfel takes up residence in a house sorely neglected after the deaths of its former inhabitants....
Book cover of A Short History of the World (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
by H. G. Wells
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011

Two years after his towering two volumes of The Outline of History, Wells offered a brief 1922 version for the busy reader. Beginning with the Earth’s place in the universe and the earliest life forms, Wells conducts the reader through ancient and modern history, looking forward to the reconstruction of the world.
Book cover of The Idea of a League of Nations (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
by H. G. Wells
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011

In the aftermath of the First World War, many leaders and intellectuals believed a League of Nations, the forerunner of today’s United Nations, would ensure world peace. The vision had no more effective or tireless advocate than Wells, who with a panel of distinguished collaborators, including Viscount Grey, Gilbert Murray, and J. A. Spender, made the case in this brief 1919 monograph.
Book cover of The Star
by H.g. Wells
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016

In January (about 1900, presumably), the people of Earth awaken to the notion that a strange luminous object has erupted, into the Solar System, after disturbing the normal orbit of the planet Neptune. Indeed, such object is a luminous celestial body, whose luminosity is distinguishable on the sky about the constellation of Leo. 
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