H G Wells: 909 books

In this 1906 novel, a comet’s mysterious green fog causes a profound transformation of the world. William Leadford, a young Socialist student, seeks both improvements in labor conditions and revenge on the middle-class Nettie for spurning his love. On the evening he plans to kill Nettie, a comet enters...

The tale of an angel who falls to earth, The Wonderful Visit is a charming allegory. The angel’s pureness and wholesomeness are bewildering to the villagers, and the angel himself has a difficult time adapting to town life, but as time passes he develops—for better or worse—human qualities and emotions.

Though young Bealby is determined to rise above his mother’s servant status, no amount of struggle helps him to prevail. He reluctantly leaves his home for Shonts, a big country house, to work as a steward’s boy. But a fateful weekend visit by distinguished personages, including the strange yet captivating...

« The darkness deepens, the cries without die away, and nothing is left but the shift and falling of the incessant snow from roof to ground. » … Are we able to survive a solar extinction ? Can we live in complete darkness ?

Der Zeitreisende, der im Roman nicht mit Namen genannt wird, hat sich gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts eine Maschine gebaut, mit deren Hilfe er sich in der vierten Dimension, der Zeit, bewegen kann. Er erklärt einem Kreis von skeptischen Freunden das Prinzip dieses Geräts sehr anschaulich und auch für den heutigen Leser durchaus nachvollziehbar.

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...

Æpyornis Island...

Le savant Griffin, après 15 ans de recherches et des dépenses qui l'ont ruiné, invente une formule pour devenir invisible. Après avoir fait l'expérience sur le chat de sa voisine, il décide d'expérimenter la formule sur lui même, notamment pour fuir ses créanciers (loyer non payé pour cause...

Prophecy may vary between being an intellectual amusement and a serious occupation; serious not only in its intentions, but in its consequences. For it is the lot of prophets who frighten or disappoint to be stoned. But for some of us moderns, who have been touched with the spirit of science, prophesying is almost a habit of mind. (Excerpt from book)

Barnstaple, a burnt out journalist, decides to go on holiday and leave the rat race behind. He leaves his family at home and hits the road. His car along with several others are miraculous transported 3,000 years into an alternate future. The world he lands in, a veritable utopia, has a history very...

This book contains several tables of HTML content to make reading easier. 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...

The Diamond Maker...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Prophecy may vary between being an intellectual amusement and a serious occupation; serious not only in its intentions, but in its consequences. For it is the lot of prophets who frighten or disappoint...