H G Wells: 909 books

It is the story of a time traveller. He builds a machine which can take him forward or backward on the scale of time. He sees many weird things when he travels through time. He also meets Weena, a little girl. After seeing many fascinating things, he comes back. Then, he narrates his experiences to...

¿Quién no ha soñado alguna vez en su vida con ser invisible? Pero seamos realistas, ¿sería tan bonito como parece el ser invisible? ¿Qué harías si llegado el momento no puedes volver a ser visible? Además, ¿qué pasaría si el poder de la invisibilidad estuviera en malas manos? Griffin es...

Los primeros hombres en la luna (en inglés The First Men in the Moon) es una novela de romance científico de 1901 escrita por el británico H. G. Wells. Relata el viaje a la Luna por parte de los dos protagonistas principales: el empobrecido empresario Mr. Bedford, y el brillante pero...

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La cultura popular y los temores contemporáneos no serían lo mismo sin la obra surgida de la fértil imaginación de H. G. Wells. Ideas como el viaje en el tiempo, la invasión extraterrestre, la enajenación mental que puede provocar la ciencia y la manipulación genética no solo siguen siendo...

Cubierta diseñada por Adrià Molins. Traducción de José C. Vales. —Hace mucho tiempo tuve la idea de una máquina… —¡Para viajar en el tiempo! —exclamó el jovencito. —Y podría viajar absolutamente en cualquier dirección en el tiempo y en el espacio, dependiendo del gusto del...

Este livro reúne contos de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Émile Zola, H. G. Wells, Guy de Maupassant, M. R. James, Bram Stoker e Henry James, autores consagrados na arte do terror e do mistério. Nele você encontrará a presença sempre marcante do relato fantástico, que por vezes se enraíza...

What would you do if you were invisible for a day ? H.G.Wells and other authors who explored this idea all show the incredible power that an invisible person would have.He or she could go anywhere secretly and steal money or valuables. However,what all of these authors seemed to miss was that if...

THE WAR OF THE WORLDS BY H.G. WELLS WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY ALVIM CORRÉA (1906) Serialised in Pearson's Magazine, Apr-Dec 1897, with illustrations by Warwick Goble First UK book edition: William Heinemann, London, 1898 First US book edition: Harper & Brothers, New York, 1898 ....

THE SLEEPER AWAKES BY H.G. WELLS A REVISED VERSION OF "WHEN THE SLEEPER WAKES"   The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian novel about a man who sleeps for two hundred years, waking up in a completely transformed London, where, because of compound...

When the Time Traveller courageously stepped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the year 802,700—and everything had changed. In this unfamiliar, utopian age creatures seemed to dwell together in perfect harmony. The Time Traveller thought he could study these marvelous...

“Why do people read science fiction? In hopes of receiving such writing as this—a ravishingly accurate vision of things unseen; an utterly unexpected yet necessary beauty.” So says Ursula K. Le Guin in her Introduction to The First Men in the Moon, H. G. Wells’s 1901 tale of space travel....

Though the phrase “the war to end all wars” is associated with President Woodrow Wilson, it was actually coined by the outspoken novelist H. G. Wells in this 1914 collection of articles. Here he addressed British anti-war advocates and pacifists, arguing that only the defeat of German militarism could end war.

The glass egg, written by H. G. Wells in 1897, serves as a possible precursor to the War of the Worlds. The owner of a store buys the contents of a bankrupt antique store, and in the content finds a crystal ball. He does not think about the ball, until one day he realizes that it emits a shine. When...