Herbert George Wells: 239 books

QUESTO LIBRO È A LAYOUT FISSO Romanzo di fantascienza, scritto da Wells nel 1881 e pubblicato nel 1897, ebbe numerose trasposizioni cinematografiche e televisive. Inghilterra, inizio Novecento: uno scienziato albino un po’ folle, a seguito di lunghe ricerche clandestine, scopre una formula ...

Il pacifismo convinto di Wells si scontra con la vita dei territori in guerra. Come altri uomini di cultura dell’epoca volle recarsi al fronte per avere l’esperienza diretta di cosa significava l’atroce conflitto mondiale. Fu in Italia nell’agosto 1916, tra l’Isonzo e le “carrette siciliane”...

L’uomo è mai stato sulla luna? Con maggiore fantasia e molto prima dell’allunaggio americano, il grande scrittore di fantascienza H.G. Wells aveva immaginato una luna abitata e alquanto trafficata. Così la trovano lo squattrinato uomo d’affari Bedford e il signor Cavor, un eccentrico inventore,...

La visita meravigliosa è un romanzo del 1895 di H.G. Wells. Con un angelo per protagonista - una creatura di fantasia diversa dall'angelo religioso - e ambientato nell'Inghilterra contemporanea, il libro potrebbe essere classificato come un fantasy contemporaneo, benché il genere non fosse riconosciuto...

THE TIME MACHINE   CHAPTER I     The Inventor.     HE 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...

„The Bulpington of Blup”, a 1932 novel by H. G. Wells, is a character study analyzing the psychological sources of resistance to Wellsian ideology, and was influenced by Wells’s acquaintance with Carl Gustav Jung and his ideas. Theodore Bulpington is a very ordinary man – with a very vivid...

"The Lord of the Dynamos" is a British short story by H.G. Wells. It was originally published in the "Pall Mall Budget" (6 September 1894), and then included in the collection "The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents", published by Methuen & Co. in 1895, and subsequently...

"The Diamond Maker" is a short story by H. G. Wells, first published in 1894 in the "Pall Mall Budget". It was included in "The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents", the first collection of short stories by Wells, first published in 1895. In the story, a businessman...

„The Dream” by H.G Wells follows the character, Sarnac, who lives a whole other life as Harry Mortimer Smith. Sarnac is at the height of his career as a scientist by discovering new research. Sarnac goes with his friends including his girlfriend, Sunray to escape for the holidays. Little does...

"A Deal in Ostriches" is a short story by the British writer H. G. Wells. It is a cautionary tale about simple human greed. The taxidermist of Wells’ story "Triumphs of a Taxidermist" (1894) makes a return appearance as the narrator of the story. The story was originally published...

"The Crystal Egg" is a science fiction short story written by H. G. Wells in 1897. The story tells of a shop owner, named Mr. Cave, who finds a strange crystal egg that serves as a window into the planet Mars. The story was written the same year in which Wells was serializing...

Wells’s treatise on education is set in the region of Camford (Cambridge/Oxford), and tells of a visitor who proves that education can save the world from destruction. The story centres around a Utopian ’ventriloquist’ who subjects human life and in particular its treatment by the University...

Publicada en 1895 y fruto de la imaginación de Wells, uno de los padres de la ciencia ficción, “La Máquina del Tiempo” nos cuenta las aventuras de un científico que logra descubrir las claves de la cuarta dimensión del espacio (el tiempo, como formalizase para la física Einstein “sólo”...

Tombé en catalepsie par excès de travail et d’insomnie, Graham se réveille dans une cage translucide, sous l’œil perplexe d’étranges gardiens. Combien de temps a-t-il dormi ? Autour de lui, tout a changé. Enfermée sous un dôme immense, Londres est devenue une termitière humaine parcourue...