Bøger af Herbert George Wells

Although best known for his scientific romances that paved the way for the modern science fiction genre, H. G. Wells (1866-1946) produced significant works on politics, society, science and history. Fascinated as much with the real world as his imaginary one, and displeased with the quality of history textbooks at the end of World War I, Wells took on the task of writing his own book of world history. In 1919 he published "The Outline of History," a 1,324-page book in three volumes, which he soon followed with the much shorter and highly popular work, "A Short History of the World." This condensed work is a monumental account of the physical, spiritual, and intellectual evolution of the human race, and chronicles key events of humanity's development. More importantly, Wells brings to light the continuity of history, and provokes thoughts on the future implications of our scientific and intellectual progress.

Fue la primera novela de uno de los considerados como padres de la ciencia ficción y, con su mezcla de aventuras y doctrina social y política, alcanzó un notable éxito, contribuyendo así a la estabilidad de Wells, que a partir de ese momento pudo dedicarse plenamente a la escritura.

Cavor, un scientifique, met au point la cavorite, un métal révolutionnaire qui crée l'apesanteur, avec lequel il construit un astronef. Accompagné par Bedford, un jeune aventurier voulant faire fortune, il se dirige vers la Lune où ils découvrent la civilisation souterraine des Sélénites...

For more than 100 years, science fiction writers have told tales of alien encounters and fascinating new technologies and they have warned of the dangers of dystopian governments. From Victorians experimenting with time travel and scientific inventions to pioneers exploring the boundaries of the possible, the stories collected here are a tribute to the imagination of one of the greatest minds in the modern science fiction genre. Some tales are filled with boundless optimism for the ingenuity of humanity while others provide fearful warnings of the risks of war and the dangers of technology. This collection includes the classic tale of 'The Invisible Man' and others from the great H. G. Wells.

A classic on literature by H.G. Wells. Give you opportunity to face philosophical themes. Wear the shoes of Edward Prendick in an isolated island with hybrid human-animals.

The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells first serialised in 1897 in the UK by Pearson's Magazine and in the US by Cosmopolitan magazine. The novel's first appearance in hardcover was in 1898 from publisher William Heinemann of London. Written between 1895 and 1897, it is one of the earliest stories that detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. The novel is the first-person narrative of both an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and of his younger brother in London as southern England is invaded by Martians. The novel is one of the most commented-on works in the science fiction canon.

Twelve Stories and a Dream is a collection of stories written by H. G. Wells between 1897 and 1903. Among them are "The Magic Shop," "Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland," "Jimmy Goggles the God," and "Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation," "A Dream of Armageddon." is Wells's famous futuristic, anti-war story.

Recently I set myself to put down what I believe. I did this with no idea of making a book, but at the suggestion of a friend and to interest a number of friends with whom I was associated. We were all, we found, extremely uncertain in our outlook upon life, about our religious feelings and in our ideas of right and wrong. And yet we reckoned ourselves people of the educated class and some of us talk and lecture and write with considerable confidence. We thought it would be of very great interest to ourselves and each other if we made some sort of frank mutual confession. We arranged to hold a series of meetings in which first one and then another explained the faith, so far as he understood it, that was in him. We astonished ourselves and our hearers by the irregular and fragmentary nature of the creeds we produced, clotted at one point, inconsecutive at another, inconsistent and unconvincing to a quite unexpected degree. It would not be difficult to caricature one of those meetings; the lecturer floundering about with an air of exquisite illumination, the audience attentive with an expression of thwarted edification upon its various brows. For my own part I grew so interested in planning my lecture and in joining up point and point, that my notes soon outran the possibilities of the hour or so of meeting for which I was preparing them. The meeting got only a few fragments of what I had to say, and made what it could of them. And after that was over I let myself loose from limits of time and length altogether and have expanded these memoranda into a book. It is as it stands now the frank confession of what one man of the early Twentieth Century has found in life and himself, a confession just as frank as the limitations of his character permit; it is his metaphysics, his religion, his moral standards, his uncertainties and the expedients with which he has met them. On every one of these departments and aspects I write-how shall I put it?-as an amateur. In every section of my subject there are men not only of far greater intellectual power and energy than I, but who have devoted their whole lives to the sustained analysis of this or that among the questions I discuss, and there is a literature so enormous in the aggregate that only a specialist scholar could hope to know it. I have not been unmindful of these professors and this literature; I have taken such opportunities as I have found, to test my propositions by them. But I feel that such apology as one makes for amateurishness in this field has a lesser quality of self-condemnation than if one were dealing with narrower, more defined and fact-laden matters. There is more excuse for one here than for the amateur maker of chemical theories, or the man who evolves a system of surgery in his leisure. These things, chemistry, surgery and so forth, we may take on the reputation of an expert, but our own fundamental beliefs, our rules of conduct, we must all make for ourselves. We may listen and read, but the views of others we cannot take on credit; we must rethink them and "make them our own." And we cannot do without fundamental beliefs, explicit or implicit. The bulk of men are obliged to be amateur philosophers,-all men indeed who are not specialized students of philosophical subjects,-even if their philosophical enterprise goes no further than prompt recognition of and submission to Authority.

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As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine-leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventures of Mr. Cavor was, after all, the outcome of the purest accident. It might have been any one. I fell into these things at a time when I thought myself removed from the slightest possibility of disturbing experiences. I had gone to Lympne because I had imagined it the most uneventful place in the world. "Here, at any rate," said I, "I shall find peace and a chance to work!" And this book is the sequel. So utterly at variance is destiny with all the little plans of men. I may perhaps mention here that very recently I had come an ugly cropper in certain business enterprises. Sitting now surrounded by all the circumstances of wealth, there is a luxury in admitting my extremity. I can admit, even, that to a certain extent my disasters were conceivably of my own making. It may be there are directions in which I have some capacity, but the conduct of business operations is not among these. But in those days I was young, and my youth among other objectionable forms took that of a pride in my capacity for affairs. I am young still in years, but the things that have happened to me have rubbed something of the youth from my mind. Whether they have brought any wisdom to light below it is a more doubtful matter.

Unique survivant d'un naufrage, Edward Prendick est secouru par Montgomery, passager d'un navire faisant route vers une île tropicale avec une cargaison d'animaux. Montgomery est l'assistant du docteur Moreau, un scientifique obsédé par la vivisection et la transfusion sanguine. Prendick découvre avec effroi que, depuis dix ans, les deux hommes se livrent à des expériences sur les animaux, en réalisant des greffes et de multiples interventions chirurgicales, afin d'en faire des hommes capables de penser et de parler. Les hommes-bêtes vivent dans un village et obéissent à La Loi, un ensemble de règles leur interdisant les comportements primitifs et prônant la vénération de Moreau, qu'ils appellent Maître ...

Griffin is a young scientist with great challenges in life, one of them is to achieve something revolutionary and change the world view in the field of science. After long days of exhausting experiments, discover the way to make objects and people invisible. Griffin proves in himself the experiment to become invisible and works. However, its strange appearance, its strange and unconventional behavior and a series of problems with the villagers of the town of Iping will give rise to an adventure where power, terror and fantasy pose a real dilemma.

New Worlds For Old-A Plain Account of Modern Socialism is a classic H. G. Wells politics essay. Mr. Wells claims the name of socialist without blindly subscribing to the programme of any present form of socialistic theory. He aims in this book (which is not a novel) to set forth the principles upon which socialism resets. New Worlds for Old identifies two "Main Generalizations of Socialism": (1) "The ideas of the private individual rights of the parent and of his isolated responsibility for his children are harmfully exaggerated in the contemporary world." "The idea of the private ownership of things and the rights of owners is enormously and mischievously exaggerated in the contemporary world." Wells advocates the replacement of a "social system, based on Private Ownership" with one based on the "spirit of service," arguing that this will be more productive as well as more just. He devotes several chapters to addressing objections to socialism, then analyzes the history of socialism. Wells places the origins of socialism in "a disconnected series of protests against the extreme theories of Individualism and Individualist Political Economy" and notes that the word dates from 1835; in its initial phase, he says, it was "immediately revolutionary" and teemed with "rash, suggestive schemes."[4] This early phase was ended by Karl Marx, who, influenced by evolutionary thinking, "for the first time viewed our age of individualist industrial development, not as a possible permanent condition of humanity, but as something unstable and in motion, as an economic process." But Wells rejects the "revolutionary socialism" of Marx as flawed by an exaggeration of the economic factor, an invidious concept of class warfare, and an excessive determinism. In a following chapter, he criticizes the "administration socialism" of which the Fabians are an example, as excessively bureaucratic in spirit. The label Wells gives to what he advocates is "constructive socialism," which is to be realized "through the operation of a collective mind that must by its nature be constructive and enterprising, because only through the creation of such a mind can Socialism be brought about." For Wells, socialism is more in the nature of a religion than a political movement. Near the end of New Worlds for Old, he writes: "Socialism is a moral and intellectual process, let me in conclusion reiterate that. Only secondarily and incidentally does it sway the world of politics. It is not a political movement; it may engender political movements, but it can never become a political movement; any political body, any organization whatever, that professes to stand for Socialism, makes an altogether too presumptuous claim. . . . There can be no pontifical Socialism; the theory lives and grows. It springs out of the common sanity of mankind.

H.G. Wells: Classic Short Stories is an anthology of 33 works by the father of the science fiction genre. This selection includes 49 classic short stories from the father of the Science Fiction genre author H.G. Wells. Selections included in this anthology: The Jilting Of Jane, The Cone, The Stolen Bacillus, The Flowering Of Orchid, The AVU Observatory, The Lord Of Diamonds, The Obliterated Man, The Valley Of Spiders, The Magic Shop etc. Each RADLEY CLASSIC is a meticulously restored, luxurious and faithful reproduction of a classic book; produced with elegant text layout, clarity of presentation, and stylistic features that make reading a true pleasure. Special attention is given to legible fonts and adequate letter sizing, correct line length for readability, generous margins and triple lead (lavish line separation); plus we do not allow any mistakes/changes/ additions to creep into the author's words.

La máquina del tiempo (The Time Machine) es una novela de ficción del escritor británico Herbert George Wells, publicada por primera vez en Londres en el año 1895 por William Heinemann. Consta de dieciséis capítulos y un epílogo. Al contrario que Julio Verne, padre del detalle y la explicación minuciosa, Wells describe (a propósito) la máquina de modo superficial y a la ligera, con algunas pinceladas de color (como cuando comenta que tenía partes de metal, cristal de roca y marfil), que dejan al lector con curiosidad por saber más del invento y su mecanismo.

The Sleeper Awakes first published in 1910 is a dystopian novel by H. G. Wells about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London, where, because of compound interest on his bank accounts, he has become the richest man in the world. The main character awakes to see his dreams realised, and the future revealed to him in all its horrors and malformities. This novel is a rewritten version of When the Sleeper Wakes a story by Wells that was serialised between 1898 and 1899. It contains a preface for the New Edition and 25 chapters.

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When Tommy Saved The Rich Man Who Fell Into The Sea He Was Given An Unusual Pet In Gratitude.

H.G. Wells: Complete Short Story Collection is a anthology of works by the father of the science fiction genre. This selection includes 49 classic short stories from the father of the Science Fiction genre author H.G. Wells. Selections included in this anthology: A Deal in Ostriches, A Dream of Armageddon, A Moon Light Fable, A Slip Under the Microscope, A Story of Days to Come, A Story of the Stoneage, A Vision of Judgment, Aepyornis Island, Filmer, In the Avu Observatory, Jimmy Goggles the God, Miss Winchelsea's Heart, Mr. Brisher's Treasure, Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation, Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland, The Beautiful Suit, The Cone, The Country of the Blind, The Crystal Egg, The Diamond Maker, The Door in the Wall, The Empire of the Ants, The Flowering of the Strange Orchid, The Flying Man, The HammerPond Park Burglary, The Jilting of Jane, The Lord of the Dynamos, The Magic Shop, The Man Who Could Work Miracles, The Moth, The New Accelerator, The Obliterated Man, The Plattner Story, The Purple Pileus, The Red Room, The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes, The Sea Raiders, The Star, The Stolen Bacillus, The Stolen Body, The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost, The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham, The Treasure in the Forest, The Triumphs of a Taxidermist, The Truth About Pyecraft, The Valley of Spiders, Through a Window, Under the Knife, Zoological Retrogression,

""Die Riesen Kommen!"" ist ein Science-Fiction-Roman von Herbert George Wells, der erstmals im Jahr 1904 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Die Geschichte beginnt damit, dass ein Meteorit auf der Erde einschl�����gt und eine Gruppe von Wissenschaftlern entdeckt, dass er au�����erirdische Organismen enth�����lt. Diese Organismen entwickeln sich schnell zu riesigen, intelligenten Wesen, die die Erde erobern und die Menschheit versklaven wollen. Die Handlung folgt einem Mann namens Bert, der versucht, gegen die Riesen zu k�����mpfen und die Menschheit zu retten. Der Roman ist ein Klassiker des Science-Fiction-Genres und gilt als eine der ersten Geschichten, die die Idee von au�����erirdischen Invasoren auf die Erde brachte.This Book Is In German.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

A collection of short stories: "The Crystal Egg", "The Star", "A Story of the Stone Age", "A Story of the Days to Come" & "The Man who could Work Miracles"

The Soul of a Bishop is a 1917 novel by H. G. Wells.The Soul of a Bishop tells the story of a spiritual crisis that leads Edward Scrope, Lord Bishop of Princhester, to give up his diocese in England's industrial heartland and leave the Anglican Church. Troubled during World War I by doctrinal doubts and a sense of the irrelevance of his Anglicism as well as nervousness and insomnia, a crisis is precipitated by a visit to a wealthy parishioner's home where he meets an extremely wealthy American widow, Lady Sunderbund. To her he speaks for the first time of his religious discontent. Shortly thereafter he takes a drug that, instead of mitigating his symptoms, gives him "a new and more vivid apprehension of things."The bishop experiences a mystical vision of "the Angel of God" and then God in the North Library of the Athenaeum Club, London. He emerges from the experience convinced that he must leave the Church, but is persuaded by an old mentor, Bishop Likeman, to wait three months before doing anything, during which time he continues in his episcopal duties. Bishop Scrope keeps these developments from his wife, Lady Ella, and his four daughters until Lady Sunderbund arrives unannounced in Princhester, vowing to become his spiritual pupil. The strain of this new situation leads him to take Dr. Dale's drug a second time, and under its influence he has a second vision, this time of the terrestrial globe in a state of spiritual fermen

H G Wells Herbert George Wells, an English writer, was born on 21st 1866 and died on 13 Aug 1946. He was renowned for his works of science fiction especially 'The Time Machine'. He is also referred as 'The Father of Science Fiction'

格雷厄姆 是一位1890年代激进的宣传者，他急切地等待着20世纪及其将带来的所有进步，他为此深感失眠。 最终诉诸药物治疗，他立即陷入长达200年的深度睡眠。 在二十世纪进入一个陌生而噩梦般的地方后，他慢慢发现自己是这个世界的主人，受到了一群自以为是的崇拜者的崇敬。 吓坏了，他从房间里逃出来寻求慰藉-才意识到并不是每个人都崇拜他，有些人甚至想伤害他。格雷厄姆 是一位1890年代激进的宣传者，他急切地等待着20世纪及其将带来的所有进步，他为此深感失眠。 最终诉诸药物治疗，他立即陷入长达200年的深度睡眠。 在二十世纪进入一个陌生而噩梦般的地方后，他慢慢发现自己是这个世界的主人，受到了一群自以为是的崇拜者的崇敬。 吓坏了，他从房间里逃出来寻求慰藉-才意识到并不是每个人都崇拜他，有些人甚至想伤害他。