H G Wells: 909 books

A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred years. During his centuries of slumber, however, investments are made that make him the richest and most powerful man on Earth. But when he comes out of his trance he is...

Mr. Barnstaple is a journalist working in London and living in Sydenham. He has grown dispirited at a newspaper called The Liberal and resolves to take a holiday. Quitting wife and family, he finds his plans disrupted when his and two other automobiles are accidentally transported with their passengers...

Mr Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife's nagging and his dreary job as the owner of a regional gentleman's outfitters. Faced with the threat of bankruptcy, he concludes that the only way to escape his frustrating existence is by burning his shop to the ground, and killing...

A semi-autobiographical satire of Edwardian advertising and patent-medicines.

The Star...

The Plattner Story...

Orphaned at an early age, raised by his aunt and uncle, and apprenticed for seven years to a draper, Artie Kipps is stunned to discover upon reading a newspaper advertisement that he is the grandson of a wealthy gentleman - and the inheritor of his fortune. Thrown dramatically into the upper classes,...

The chilling novel account of a Martian invasion of London in the nineteenth century -- a science fiction classic for all time.

Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation...

Twenty-one, passionate and headstrong, Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her own life. When her father forbids her from attending a fashionable Ball, she decides she has no choice but to leave her family home and make a fresh start in London. There, she finds a world of intellectuals, socialists,...

The Purple Pileus...

The Obliterated Man...

Esta obra trata de como el autor interpreta un futuro en Londres hacia 1 millón de años. Cuando el hombre se reduce a hacer labores de poco esfuerzo, y va nombrando estas labores como las de en vez de hacerse el almuerzo o cualquier comida solo reciben comida a travez de una cinta transportadora...