H. G. Wells

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Philosophy

H. G. Wells - Anticipations

Wells considered this book one of his most important, a natural follow-up to such works as his Man of the Year Million and The Time Machine. His goal was to get people to think and act in new ways. The book starts...

John Trevithick and 2 more 8 hours 31 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

H. G. Wells - Food of the Gods, and How It Came to Earth (version 2)

Mr. Bensington and Professor Redwood have invented a substance that causes living things to grow — and grow — and grow! As their experiments progress, the substance quickly gets out of control and the fun begins as...

Catharine Eastman 8 hours 25 minutes

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Science Fiction

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H. G. Wells - Tales of Space and Time

Five short Science Fiction stories. — Summary by Richard Kilmer

Richard Kilmer 8 hours 23 minutes

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Science Fiction

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H. G. Wells - Sleeper Awakes

The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian novel about a man who sleeps for two hundred years, waking up in a completely transformed London, where, because of compound interest, he has become the richest man in the world. He...

James Christopher and 13 more 8 hours 14 minutes

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Science Fiction

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H. G. Wells - World Set Free

The World Set Free is a novel published in 1914 by H. G. Wells. The book is considered a prophetical novel foretelling the advent of nuclear weapons. A constant theme in Wells's work, such as his 1901 nonfiction...

LivelyHive 8 hours 10 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

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H. G. Wells - World Set Free (version 2)

Radioactive decay is a major theme in the novel The World Set Free, published in 1914. Wells explores what might happen if the rate of decay could be sped up. The book may have encouraged scientists to explore...

Jules Hawryluk and 1 more 8 hours 4 minutes

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Science Fiction

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H. G. Wells - First Men in the Moon

Britain won the Moon Race! Decades before Neal Armstrong took his «giant leap for mankind» two intrepid adventurers from Lympne, England, journeyed there using not a rocket, but an antigravity coating. Mr. Bedford,...

Mark F. Smith 8 hours 2 minutes

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Science Fiction

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H. G. Wells - Twelve Stories and a Dream

Thirteen short stories by HG Wells, the master of speculative fiction! Included in this collection is «Mr Skelmersdale in Fairyland» where a man finds his way into fairyland where a fairy queen tries to seduce him...

Charbelí Ramos Chávez and 10 more 7 hours 48 minutes

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General Fiction

H. G. Wells - Love and Mr Lewisham

The teaching profession, science and politics in late 19th century England. H. G. Wells’ humorous early novel, drawing on his own life, shows how these – as well as involvement in spiritualism – have to compete with...

Anthony Ogus 7 hours 47 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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H. G. Wells - Secret Places of the Heart

Richard Hardy, a member of the British gentry, tries to resolve problems in his marriage as he travels with a psychiatrist. The book is to a great extent autobiographical. H. G. had read some brillliantly composed...

A. J. Carroll and 8 more 7 hours 24 minutes

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Science Fiction

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H. G. Wells - War of the Worlds (Version 3)

No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that the Earth was being scrutinised and studied from across the gulf of space. With infinite complacency, humanity went about its little...

Cori Samuel 6 hours 55 minutes

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Science Fiction

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H. G. Wells - War of the Worlds

H. G. Wells wrote The War of the Worlds in 1898, when there was much speculation about life on the planet Mars. The book is considered to be one of the first science fiction novels. In the story, an English...

Stephan Möbius and 10 more 6 hours 43 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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