H. G Wells
Author
Publisher
George H. Doran Company
Pub. Date
[1927]
Language
English
Description
This novel is split into two parts, „The Utopographer in the Garden" and „Advent". The former is set on the Italian Riviera where the novel's central figures, a British couple, The Rylands, entertain guests. The latter, written largely in the form of letters between the couple during the husband's trip to London, provides commentary on British political landscape of the 1920's. A pretty good book, detailed discussions on Socialism, Communism,...
Author
Publisher
Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A sequel to the H.G. Wells classic THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, brilliantly realized by award-winning SF author and Wells expert Stephen Baxter It has been 14 years since the Martians invaded England. The world has moved on, always watching the skies but content that we know how to defeat the Martian menace. Machinery looted from the abandoned capsules and war-machines has led to technological leaps forward. The Martians are vulnerable to earth germs....
Author
Series
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
"In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." Or is he? In H. G. Wells' acclaimed tale, a stranded mountaineer encounters an isolated society in which his apparent advantage proves less than valuable. This thought-provoking fable is accompanied by other short stories, including "The Star," a gripping tale about a massive celestial object hurtling toward the Earth, as well as "The New Accelerator," "The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes,"...
Author
Publisher
E.P. Dutton & Company
Pub. Date
[1914]
Language
English
Description
The Last War erupts in Europe, rapidly escalating from bloody trench warfare and vicious aerial duels into a world-consuming, atomic holocaust. Paris is engulfed by an atomic maelstrom, Berlin is an ever-flaming crater, the cold waters of the North Sea roar past Dutch dikes and sweep across the Low Countries. Moscow, Chicago, Tokyo, London, and hundreds of other cities become radioactive wastelands. Governments topple, age-old cultural legacies are...
Author
Publisher
The Ball Publishing Co
Pub. Date
1908.
Language
English
Description
This Misery of Boots is a 1907 political tract by H. G. Wells advocating socialism. Published by the Fabian Society, This Misery of Boots is the expansion of a 1905 essay with the same name. Its five chapters condemn private property in land and means of production and calls for their expropriation by the state "not for profit, but for service.
27) The time machine
Author
Series
Publisher
Baronet Books
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
A young scientist, to the amazement and disbelief of his colleagues and other experts, has perfected a machine that lets him live one of mankind's oldest dreams--to live in times other than his own.
Author
Series
Publisher
Wordsworth Classics
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
These comic novels will resonate with anyone who has ever felt trapped by circumstance. Their central characters, Artie Kipps and Alfred Polly, are prisoners of their modest social class, limited education, dull work, and sterile relationships. In Wells' hands they break out of the cages that society has constructed for them, learning after bitter experience the truth that 'if the world does not please you, you can change it'. This message, a revolutionary...
33) The collector's book of science fiction by H.G. Wells: from rare, original, illustrated magazines
Author
Publisher
Castle Books
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[1952]
Language
English
Description
Contains two complete novels, Star begotten and Men like gods, and such stories as The man who could work miracles, The empire of the ants, The new accelerator, A story of the Stone Age, Story of days to come, The stolen bacillus, and The country of the blind.