H G Wells: 909 books

Like 'The Time Machine,' this book may be considered as a further romance of the fourth dimension. 'The Wonderful Visit' was paid by an angel, who by some accident, had got out of the angel into the human world, where he is accidentally shot by a vicar.

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...

Personne n'aurait cru dans les dernières années du XIX siècle, que les choses humaines fussent observées, de la façon la plus pénétrante et la plus attentive, par des intelligences supérieures aux intelligences humaines et cependant mortelles...

Qui ne connaît pas l'intrigue de ce roman ? La terre en l'an 802701 a les apparences d'un paradis. Les apparences seulement. Car derrière ces jardins magnifiques, ces bosquets somptueux, cet éternel été où les hommes devenus oisifs n'ont à se préoccuper de rien, se cache un secret...

Bedford et Cavor, grâce à la "Cavorite", voyagent jusqu'à la lune, et découvrent les Sélénites. L'aventure ne fait que commencer...

Extrait : L’EXPLORATEUR du Temps (car c’est ainsi que pour plus de commodité nous l’appellerons) nous exposait un mystérieux problème. Ses yeux gris et vifs étincelaient, et son visage, habituellement pâle, était rouge et animé. Dans la cheminée la flamme brûlait joyeusement...

THE man who made the Time Machine—the man I shall call the Time Traveler—was well known in scientific circles a few years since, and the fact of his disappearance is also well known. He was a mathematician of peculiar subtlety, and one of our most conspicuous investigators in molecular physics....

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Illus. in black-and-white. When a turn-of-the-century scientist travels into the distant future in his time machine, he expects to find progress and superior people. But instead he discovers a world in decay. Reading level: 2.4.

Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel carrying a profoundly unusual cargo - a menagerie of savage animals. Tended to recovery by their keeper Montgomery, who gives him dark medicine that tastes of blood, Prendick soon finds himself...

When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that this beautiful people are simply remnants...

'My next clear recollection is that we were prisoners at we knew not what depth beneath the moon's surface ... At the village of Lympne, on the south coast of England, the 'most uneventful place in the world' the failed playwright Mr Bedford meets the brilliant inventor Mr Cavor, and together they...

"The Apple" is one of the stories the reader will be treated to in the short story collection The Plattner Story and Others, and it is this tale, along with one or two others, that earn this collection the praise of millions.

'Cities, nations, civilization, progress-it's all over. That game's up. We're beat.' One of the most important and influential invasion narratives ever written, The War of the Worlds (1897) describes the coming of the Martians, who land in Woking, and make their way remorselessly towards the capital,...