H G Wells: 909 books

Contents The Crystal Egg The Star A Story of the Stone Age   1. Ugh-lomi and Uya   2. The Cave Bear   3. The First Horseman   4. Uya the Lion   5. The Fight in the Lion's Thicket A Story of the Days to Come   1. The Cure for Love   2. The Vacant Country  ...

A well-written Bildungsroman in which a poor but ambitious science student learns there's more to life than study, but that it comes at a high cost.

Contents Filmer The Magic Shop The Valley of Spiders The Truth About Pyecraft Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost Jimmy Goggles the God The New Accelerator Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation The Stolen Body Mr. Brisher's Treasure Miss Winchelsea's Heart A Dream of Armageddon

Modern psychiatry--a keen-witted egotistic Englishman, a sprightly American girl--delightful companionship through the historic villages of springtime England--and much brilliant discussion ranging over the past and future topics of world-wide significance.

« Personne n’aurait cru dans les dernières années du XIX e 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 comme elles ; que, tandis que les hommes...

The story opens aboard a train, when an unwell-looking man strikes up a conversation with the narrator when he sees him reading a book about dreams. The white-faced man says that he has little time for dream analysis because, he says, his dreams are killing him. He goes on to tell how he has been experiencing...

SUCH previous landings of mermaids as have left a record, have all a flavour of doubt. Even the very circumstantial account of that Bruges Sea Lady, who was so clever at fancy work, gives occasion to the sceptic. I must confess that I was absolutely incredulous of such things until a year ago. But...

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One of the most famous science-fiction stories ever written, The War of the Worlds helped launch the entire genre by exploiting the concept of interplanetary travel. First published in 1898, the novel terrified readers of the Victorian era with its account of an invasion of hostile creatures from...

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...  

Profiting enormously from the success of his uncle’s bogus medicine, called Tono-Bungay, young George Ponderovo pursues his dream of building an airplane. As the empire of Tono-Bungay continues to grow, however, George is headed for a breakdown as he begins to question the corrupt society that allows his family to become so powerful.

Published in 1904, this darkly satirical novel is one of the first appearances of a science fiction classic—scientific experimentation that results in gigantic plants and animals:  in this case, an English countryside overrun with giant wasps, giant rodents, and giant human beings.

When the Sleeper Wakes, whose title I have now altered to The Sleeper Awakes, was first published as a book in 1899 after a serial appearance in the Graphic and one or two American and colonial periodicals. It is one of the most ambitious and least satisfactory of my books, and I have taken the opportunity...