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H. G. Wells was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction. His writing career spanned more than sixty years, and his early science fiction novels earned him the title (along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback) of "The Father of Science Fiction".

"Die Ansiedler oder die Quellen des Susquehannah" (engl. "The Pioneers, or the Sources of the Susquehanna") ist ein 1823 veröffentlichter Gesellschaftsroman des amerikanischen Schriftstellers James Fenimore Cooper (1789−1851). Die erste deutschsprachige Übersetzung des Romans...

Dieses E-Book ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig Korrektur gelesen. Hans (Joachim) Dominik (geboren 15. November 1872 in Zwickau; gestorben 9. Dezember 1945 in Berlin) war ein deutscher Science-Fiction- und Sachbuchautor, Wissenschaftsjournalist...

H. G. Wells was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction. His writing career spanned more than sixty years, and his early science fiction novels earned him the title (along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback) of "The Father of Science Fiction".

H. G. Wells was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction. His writing career spanned more than sixty years, and his early science fiction novels earned him the title (along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback) of "The Father of Science Fiction".

"The Man Who Could Work Miracles" is a British fantasy–comedy short story by H. G. Wells first published in 1898 in "The Illustrated London News".

"Persuasion" is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished "Emma" and completed it in August 1816. She died, at age 41, in 1817; "Persuasion" was published in December of that year (but dated 1818). "Persuasion" is linked...

Up in the Gallery (Auf der Galerie) is a short piece of fiction written by Franz Kafka. It was created between November 1916 and February 1917 and published in the collection Ein Landarzt (A Country Doctor) in 1919. The story offers two versions of a scene in which a young man watches a circus ringmaster and a woman on horseback.

This edition contains the English translation and the original text in French. "A Journey to the Center of the Earth" (French: "Voyage au centre de la Terre") is a classic 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves German professor Otto Lidenbrock who...

"The New Accelerator" is a 1901 science fiction short story by H. G. Wells. The story addresses the invention of an elixir that accelerates all of an individual's physiological and cognitive processes by some orders of magnitude, such that although the individual perceives no change in themselves,...

Sherlock Holmes ist eine vom britischen Schriftsteller Sir Arthur Conan Doyle geschaffene Kunstfigur, die in seinen zur Zeit des späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts spielenden Romanen als Detektiv tätig ist. Besondere Bedeutung für die Kriminalliteratur erlangte Holmes durch seine neuartige...

"Der Bericht des Arthur Gordon Pym" bzw. seltener auch "Die denkwürdigen Erlebnisse des Arthur Gordon Pym" oder "Die Abenteuer des Arthur Gordon Pym" (Originaltitel: "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket") ist der einzige Roman von Edgar Allan Poe,...

Edgar Allan Poe (* 19. Januar 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; † 7. Oktober 1849 in Baltimore, Maryland) war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller. Er prägte entscheidend die Genres der Kriminalliteratur, der Science-Fiction und der Horrorliteratur. Seine Poesie wurde zum Fundament des Symbolismus...

"Der Bravo" (engl. "The Bravo: A Tale") ist ein 1831 veröffentlichter Roman des amerikanischen Schriftstellers James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851). James Fenimore Cooper (* 15. September 1789 in Burlington, New Jersey als James Cooper; † 14. September 1851 in Cooperstown,...