Herbert Wells: 244 books

The Beautiful Suit is a short story by H.G. Wells originally published under the title "A Moonlight Fable" in the April 10, 1909, number of Collier's Weekly. Written in the manner of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, the story features but two characters: an unnamed "little man,"...

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 Red Room" is a short gothic story written by H. G. Wells in 1894. It was first published in the March 1896 edition of "The Idler" magazine.

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 Cone" is a short story by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895 in "Unicorn". It was intended to be "the opening chapter of a sensational novel set in the Five Towns", later abandoned. The story is set at an ironworks in Stoke-on-Trent, in Staffordshire. An...

A soul-corrupting evil invades the remote English village of Cainsmarsh, infesting the minds of the local residents. Dark events are plaguing its people. An elderly woman stiffens in dread at her own shadow; a terrified farmer murders a scarecrow; food prepared by others is eyed with suspicion; family...

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".

Actuellement, la Russie est comme rayée de la science sociale. Faute de documents directs, comment parler d’elle exactement, impartialement ? Les deux grands journaux de la République fédérative des Soviets n’arrivent pas régulièrement en France ; ou s’ils y arrivent, ils ne parviennent...

Cette comédie raconte les vacances estivales à bicyclette d’un petit employé d’un magasin de tissus londonien. Dans son trajet vers la côte sud, son chemin croise par hasard à plusieurs reprises celui d’un couple étrange qui semble se diriger dans la même direction. Il tombe sous le charme...

La Terre en l’an 802000 avait pourtant toutes les apparences d’un paradis. Les apparences seulement. Car derrière ces jardins magnifiques, ces bosquets somptueux, cet éternel été où les hommes devenus oisifs n’ont à se préoccuper de rien, se cache un horrible secret. Ainsi témoigne l’explorateur...

Bien que HG Wells soit surtout connu pour ses récits de science-fiction, il a également été un commentateur de la scène politique entourant la Première Guerre mondiale.    L’Europe de demain (les textes de cet ouvrage ont été écrits à la fin de l’année 1915 et dans les premiers...

Mankind in the Making is a classic story written by H. G. Wells and first published in 1903. Certain wholesale aspects of man-making with a skin of infinite delicacy that life will harden very speedily, with a discomforted writhing little body, with a weak and wailing outcry that stirs the heart, the...

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".