H Wells: 972 books

The book readdresses the idea of the existence of Martians, famously written about in The War of the Worlds (1898). The dialog of Star-Begotten makes brief cursory references Wells's earlier novel The War of the Worlds, referring to it as having been written by "Conan Doyle or one of those people"....

As the Great War ground to an end, Wells looked toward the future, advocating a “League of Nations” that would prevent another global conflict. He considers imperialism, labor, democracy, the monarchy, and other topics, prescribing how the League could work. A fascinating study in what might have been.

Originally published in 1897, Thirty Strange Stories contains such well-known stories as “The Triumphs of a Taxidermist,” about the outrageous exploits, both authentic and fraudulent, of a taxidermist, who then reappears in “A Deal of Ostriches,” a tale of a con man’s exploitation of human...

Throughout his career, Wells kept his eye on the future. In 1901 he used this book to make predictions for the twentieth century. He foresaw the development of mass transportation and the automobile, air power in combat, and even the decline of permanent marriage. His hits and misses make for fascinating reading.

One of Wells’s first forays outside the science fiction genre, Love and Mr. Lewisham tells of a young, penniless science student whose carefully structured life is thrown into disarray when an old passion, in the person of a former sweetheart, re-enters his life.

"Temo di non riuscire a descrivervi le singolari sensazioni che si hanno viaggiando nel tempo: sono eccessivamente spiacevoli. Sembra di essere sulle montagne russe: si ha cioè la sensazione di precipitare inevitabilmente con la testa all’ingiù! Provavo, inoltre, l’orribile presentimento...

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal...

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This box set includes all the seven volumes of the collection.

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal...

Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Les Misérables (Victor Hugo) The Call of the Wild (Jack London) Walden (Henry David Thoreau) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)...

In celebration of our history’s rich oral tradition of storytelling, we invite you to bring your flashlight up to your chin and get ready to make your listeners want to sleep with a nightlight. Through the Flashlight’s Beam is a collection of the very best scary story classics including some of the...

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...

"Der Betrieb da droben", sagte Mr. Tom Smallways, "geht immerzu weiter. Sollt's nicht glauben, daß er überhaupt noch weitergehen könnte!" sagte Mr. Tom Smallways. Es war lang vor Beginn des Luftkriegs, daß Mr. Smallways diese Bemerkung machte. Er saß auf dem Zaun am Ende seines...

Einige Zeit hindurch war Mr. Parham dem Gedanken, einer spiritistischen Sitzung beizuwohnen, wozu Sir Bussy Woodcock ihn aufgefordert hatte, in stärkstem Maße abgeneigt. Mr. Parham wollte mit Spiritismus nichts zu schaffen haben. Gleichzeitig aber wollte er seine Beziehungen zu Sir Bussy Woodcock...