H G Wells: 909 books

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 ? 13 August 1946) was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary. Together with Jules Verne, Wells has...

Collection of essays on philosophy and religion. According to Wikipedia: "Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 13 August 1946)[1] was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history,...

La guerra de los mundos es una novela de ciencia ficción escrita por Herbert George Wells y publicada por primera vez en 1898, que describe una invasión marciana a la Tierra. Es la primera descripción conocida de una invasión alienígena de la Tierra, y ha tenido una indudable influencia sobre...

La máquina del tiempo (The Time Machine) es una novela de ficción del escritor británico Herbert George Wells, publicada por primera vez en Londres en el año 1895 por William Heinemann. Consta de dieciséis capítulos y un epílogo. Al contrario que Julio Verne, padre del detalle...

Traducción de Rafael Santervás.  Han llegado del espacio exterior, de Marte. Equipados con terribles máquinas, los invasores aterrizan en nuestro planeta y empiezan a sembrar el terror y la destrucción. Su único objetivo es conquistar la Tierra y convertir a los humanos en sus esclavos....

Deeply interested in the development of mankind, Wells wrote Mankind in the Making to present his general theory of social development and of social and political conduct. In the mind of the British public, this novel established Wells as a leading advocate for social progress.

'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...

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.

The Sea Lady is a fantasy novel that has some of the aspects of a fable. It was serialized from July to December 1901 in Pearson’s Magazine before being published as a volume. The inspiration for the novel was Wells’s glimpse of May Nisbet, the daughter of the Times drama critic, in a bathing...

This 1920 collection of Sunday Express articles grew from Wells’s second trip to Russia, where he interviewed Lenin, Maxim Gorky, and even Ivan Pavlov of the famous dog experiments. Wells describes a country torn by war and foreign intervention. He provides both a snapshot and a warning to the West.

Textbook by the renowned novelist, first published in 1892-1893. According to Wikipedia, "" Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 13 August 1946) was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary...

In Wells’s thinly veiled autobiographical novel (1922), English gentleman Sir Richard Hardy tries to sort out his marital problems—by touring the countryside with Dr. Martineau, his psychiatrist. The story has also been called a love letter to birth-control activist Margaret Sanger, with whom Wells had a passionate affair.

Wells moves close to home in this 1905 Dickensian social satire. Kipps is a lowly draper until he inherits a fortune. But money doesn’t buy mobility, for Kipps has yet to learn the rules of upper-class behavior. One of Wells’s best novels, it was the basis for the hit musical Half a Sixpence.

Mr. Barnstaple fand, daß er dringend einen Urlaub brauchte; nur wußte er weder, mit wem, noch wohin er hätte gehen können. Er war überarbeitet und hielt es zu Hause nicht mehr aus. Barnstaple hatte von Natur aus ein starkes Temperament. Seine Familie liebte er innig, so daß er sie durch und...