H G Wells: 909 books

In 1890 a Victorian scientist tells his friends he has built a Time Machine that will take him far into the future. His friends dont believe him. But then the man vanishes. The Time Traveler eventually returns to tell his friends that he has journeyed nearly a million years into the future to the year...

Fue la primera novela de uno de los considerados como padres de la ciencia ficción y, con su mezcla de aventuras y doctrina social y política, alcanzó un notable éxito, contribuyendo así a la estabilidad de Wells, que a partir de ese momento pudo dedicarse plenamente...

« Qu’importe ce qui brille dans le ciel, quand les hommes meurent de faim sur la terre ! » Au temps de la comète est une œuvre de science-fiction, de HG Wells, parue en 1906, qui remportant un franc succès, tant son œuvre est à la fois tragique et optimiste sur l’humanité. Il y...

"Monsieur Hoopdriver, modeste vendeur de tissu, s’apprête à partir en vacance sur la côte, sud de l’Angleterre. Il a en tout et pour tout, 10 jours de liberté durant lesquels, il va faire la rencontre d’un couple mystérieux." Ce livre de HG Wells est peu connu du grand...

The Time Traveller, a dreamer obsessed with traveling through time, builds himself a time machine and, much to his surprise, travels over 800,000 years into the future. He lands in the year 802701: the world has been transformed by a society living in apparent harmony and bliss, but as the Traveler...

Herbert George Wells was perhaps best known as the author of such classic works of science fiction as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds. But it was in his short stories, written when he was a young man embarking on a literary career, that he first explored the enormous potential of the scientific...

Sir Isaac is dogmatically opposed to women getting the vote. His young wife, Ellen, sees things differently. She declares herself a suffragette, breaking a shop window during a protest because she finds time in jail preferable to life with her husband. Wells’s 1914 novel is one of his most successful social comedies.

Mr. Hoopdriver, an unhappy draper’s assistant, takes a ten-day holiday: a bicycle tour of the English countryside. His repeated encounters with a pretty young woman cyclist in bloomers leads to flights of fancy that make this not only one of Well’s funniest novels but also gives an early glimpse...

Meanwhile is divided into two books: "The Utopographer in the Garden" and "Advent". In the first book, Cynthia and Philip Rylands, a wealthy British couple, are entertaining guests at Casa Terragena, an Italian villa with a famous garden on the Italian Riviera. Among the...

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A Short History of the World is a period-piece non-fictional historic work. The book was largely inspired by Wells's earlier 1919 work The Outline of History. It summarises the scientific knowledge of the time regarding the history of Earth and life and begins with its origins, goes on to explain...

'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...

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.

Dans l'Angleterre du XXIIe siècle, la population vit concentrée dans d'immenses villes-tours, laissant les campagnes désertées aux machines de la société d'Alimentation. Dans les villes, le fossé s'est creusé entre le mode de vie des classes laborieuses - parquées dans les étages inférieurs...