H. G. Wells - Free Library Land Online

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H.G. Wells, a pioneer in the science fiction genre, produced awesomely imaginative novels whose technologies seem impossibly sophisticated for a writer living in an era before automobiles and the widespread application of electricity. In his work The Time Machine, Wells Time Traveller, a gentleman inventor living in England, traverses first thousands of years and then millions into the future, before bringing back the knowledge of the grave degeneration of the human race and the planet. One wonders if Wells could truly see into the future, as over 100 years after its publication date his visions seem timelier than ever.]]> Mon, 21 Jun 2004 20:00:39 +0300 The War of the Worlds https://humor-and-comedy.library.land/h-g-wells/4219-the_war_of_the_worlds.html https://humor-and-comedy.library.land/h-g-wells/4219-the_war_of_the_worlds.html

H.G. Wells's classic tale of planetary conquest.The War of the Worlds (1898), by H. G. Wells, is an early science fiction novel which describes an invasion of England by aliens from Mars. It is one of the earliest and best-known depictions of an alien invasion of Earth, and has influenced many others, as well as spawning several films, radio dramas, comic book adaptations, and a television series based on the story. The 1938 radio broadcast caused public outcry against the episode, as many listeners believed that an actual Martian invasion was in progress, a notable example of mass hysteria.]]> Sun, 21 Jun 1992 20:00:43 +0300 The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance https://humor-and-comedy.library.land/h-g-wells/4226-the_invisible_man__a_grotesque_romance.html https://humor-and-comedy.library.land/h-g-wells/4226-the_invisible_man__a_grotesque_romance.html

The Invisible Man is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells. Originally serialized in Pearson's Weekly in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and invents a way to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it neither absorbs nor reflects light and thus becomes invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but fails in his attempt to reverse it.]]> Mon, 21 Jun 2004 20:00:58 +0300 The Island of Doctor Moreau https://humor-and-comedy.library.land/h-g-wells/4223-the_island_of_doctor_moreau.html https://humor-and-comedy.library.land/h-g-wells/4223-the_island_of_doctor_moreau.html

Edward Prendick is shipwrecked in the Pacific. Rescued by Doctor Moreau's assistant he is taken to the doctor's island home where he discovers the doctor has been experimenting on the animal inhabitants of the island, creating bizarre proto-humans...]]> Mon, 21 Jun 2004 20:00:53 +0300 The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories https://humor-and-comedy.library.land/h-g-wells/3885-the_door_in_the_wall,_and_other_stories.html https://humor-and-comedy.library.land/h-g-wells/3885-the_door_in_the_wall,_and_other_stories.html

The Door in the Wall The Star A Dream of Armageddon The Cone A Moonlight Fable The Diamond Maker The Lord of the Dynamos The Country of the BlindThe Door in the Wall The Star A Dream of Armageddon The Cone A Moonlight Fable The Diamond Maker The Lord of the Dynamos The Country of the Blind]]> Tue, 21 Jun 2005 17:00:23 +0300 Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story https://humor-and-comedy.library.land/h-g-wells/3385-ann_veronica__a_modern_love_story.html https://humor-and-comedy.library.land/h-g-wells/3385-ann_veronica__a_modern_love_story.html

Ann Veronica is a New Woman novel by H.G. Wells published in 1909. Ann Veronica describes the rebellion of Ann Veronica Stanley, "a young lady of nearly two-and-twenty," against her middle-class father's stern patriarchal rule. The novel dramatizes the contemporary problem of the New Woman. It is set in Victorian era London and environs, except for an Alpine excursion. Ann Veronica offers vignettes of the Women's suffrage movement in Great Britain and features a chapter inspired by the 1908 attempt of suffragettes to storm Parliament.Mr. Stanley forbids his adult daughter, a biology student at Tredgold Women's College and the youngest of his five children, to attend a fancy dress ball in London, causing a crisis. Ann Veronica is planning to attend the dance with friends of a down-at-the-heels artistic family living nearby and has been chafing at other restrictions imposed for no apparent reason on her. After her father resorts to force to stop her from attending the ball, she leaves her home in the fictional south London suburb of Morningside Park in order to live independently in an apartment "in a street near the Hampstead Road" in North London. Unable to find appropriate employment, she borrows forty pounds from Mr. Ramage, an older man, without realizing she is compromising herself. With this money, Ann Veronica is able to devote herself to study in the biological laboratory of the Central Imperial College (a constituent college of London University) where she meets and falls in love with Capes, the laboratory's "demonstrator." But Mr. Ramage loses little time in trying to take advantage of the situation, precipitating a crisis. Distraught after Ramage tries to force himself on her, Ann Veronica temporarily abandons her studies and devotes herself to the cause of women's suffrage; she is arrested storming Parliament and spends a month in prison. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.]]> Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:22:25 +0300 The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents https://humor-and-comedy.library.land/h-g-wells/4433-the_stolen_bacillus_and_other_incidents.html https://humor-and-comedy.library.land/h-g-wells/4433-the_stolen_bacillus_and_other_incidents.html

The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents by the English author H. G. Wells is a collection of fantasy and science fiction short stories. From the author of some of the worlds greatest tales including 'War of the worlds' and 'Time machine' comes this new edition of an old classic, a great addition to the collection. Any profits from the sale of this book will go towards the Freeriver Community project, a project that aims to promote peace and well-being in the world. To learn more about the Freeriver Community project please visit the website - www.freerivercommunity.com]]> Mon, 21 Jun 2004 20:09:58 +0300 The First Men in the Moon https://humor-and-comedy.library.land/h-g-wells/4456-the_first_men_in_the_moon.html https://humor-and-comedy.library.land/h-g-wells/4456-the_first_men_in_the_moon.html

The novel tells the story of a journey to the moon by the impecunious businessman Mr Bedford and the brilliant but eccentric scientist Dr Cavor. On arrival, Bedford and Cavor find the moon inhabited by a race of moon-folk the two call "Selenites." The novel can also be read as a critique of prevailing political opinions from the turn of the century, particularly of imperialism.]]> Tue, 21 Jun 2016 20:11:12 +0300 The Sea Lady https://humor-and-comedy.library.land/h-g-wells/3995-the_sea_lady.html https://humor-and-comedy.library.land/h-g-wells/3995-the_sea_lady.html

Such previous landings of mermaids as have left a record, have all a flavour of doubt. Even the very circumstantial account of that Bruges Sea Lady, who was so clever at fancy work, gives occasion to the sceptic. I must confess that I was absolutely incredulous of such things until a year ago. But now, face to face with indisputable facts in my own immediate neighbourhood, and with my own second cousin Melville (of Seaton Carew) as the chief witness to the story, I see these old legends in a very different light. Yet so many people concerned themselves with the hushing up of this affair, that, but for my sedulous enquiries, I am certain it would have become as doubtful as those older legends in a couple of score of years. Even now to many minds.]]> Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:06:08 +0300 The Wonderful Visit https://humor-and-comedy.library.land/h-g-wells/4002-the_wonderful_visit.html https://humor-and-comedy.library.land/h-g-wells/4002-the_wonderful_visit.html

H.G. Wells's satirical tale of an angel who visits Victorian England.]]> Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:06:32 +0300 Mankind in the Making https://humor-and-comedy.library.land/h-g-wells/706519-mankind_in_the_making.html https://humor-and-comedy.library.land/h-g-wells/706519-mankind_in_the_making.html

]]> Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:51:02 +0200 Marriage https://humor-and-comedy.library.land/h-g-wells/3434-marriage.html https://humor-and-comedy.library.land/h-g-wells/3434-marriage.html

A monoplane falling out of the sky on a hot afternoon can shatter the leisurely peace of a croquet game below. And an injured aviator like Geoffrey Trafford can quite disrupt the calm of a girl like Marjorie Pope. All obstacles - her modern views, her socialism, her cool engagement to the worldly Mr Magnet - are swept away; and, as in every misguided fairy tale, 'the poor dears haven't the shadow of a doubt they will live happily ever after'. Written when Wells himself was caught in the entanglements of home and sex, this funny, utterly engrossing novel, shows him grappling with a perennial question; how can a marriage survive, when conventions stifle, when men and women want different things, when passions fade? Ironically, the answer he came to led to his meeting with an enraged young reviewer, Rebecca West - a collision as devastating as the plane crash in the rectory garden. ]]> Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:25:22 +0300 Invisible Man https://humor-and-comedy.library.land/h-g-wells/706703-invisible_man.html https://humor-and-comedy.library.land/h-g-wells/706703-invisible_man.html

Spine-tingling and entertaining, The Invisible Man is a science fiction classic–and a penetrating, unflinching look into the heart of human nature. To its author, H. G. Wells, the novel was as compelling as “a good gripping dream.” But to generations of readers, the terrible and evil experiment of the demented scientist, Griffin, has conveyed a chilling nightmare of believable horror. An atmosphere of ever-increasing suspense begins with the arrival of a mysterious stranger at an English village inn and builds relentlessly to the stark terror of a victim pursued by a maniacal invisible man. The result is a masterwork: a dazzling display of the brilliant imagination, psychological insight, and literary craftsmanship that made H. G. Wells one of the most influential writers of his time.

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Whether the story of Gottfried Plattner is to be credited or not, is a pretty question in the value of evidence. On the one hand, we have seven witnesses—to be perfectly exact, we have six and a half pairs of eyes, and one undeniable fact; and on the other we have—what is it?—prejudice, common sense, the inertia of opinion. Never were there seven more honest-seeming witnesses; never was there a more undeniable fact than the inversion of Gottfried Plattner’s anatomical structure, and—never was there a more preposterous story than the one they have to tell! The most preposterous part of the story is the worthy Gottfried’s contribution (for I count him as one of the seven). Heaven forbid that I should be led into giving countenance to superstition by a passion for impartiality, and so come to share the fate of Eusapia’s patrons! Frankly, I believe there is something crooked about this business of Gottfried Plattner; but what that crooked factor is, I will admit as frankly, I do not know. I have been surprised at the credit accorded to the story in the[2] most unexpected and authoritative quarters. The fairest way to the reader, however, will be for me to tell it without further comment.]]> Fri, 21 Jun 2013 20:13:58 +0300