Herbert Wells: 244 books

QUESTO LIBRO È A LAYOUT FISSO Considerato uno dei primi romanzi di stampo fantascientifico, La Guerra dei mondi racconta l’improvvisa e inaspettata discesa da Marte di un manipolo di mostruose creature e la disperata lotta per la sopravvivenza del genere umano. Tutto ha inizio una sera,...

Epic romances, fearsome dragons and alien worlds lie between the pages of this volume. Containing more than 35 stories from the early masters of fantasy literature, the narratives here transport the reader to alternate worlds where magic abounds, cosmic terrors lie around the corner and intrepid heroes...

The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895. Wells is generally credited with the popularisation of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposefully and selectively.     The term "time machine", coined...

Collected together here are seven of the most iconic novels of H. G. Wells, the father of science fiction himself. With each story, he presents a unique and exciting twist. In The Invisible Man, a scientist's experimentation with visibility goes disastrously wrong. The Time Machine features...

Apparso all’alba del secolo ventesimo, Tales of space and time è un testo fondativo della science fiction. I racconti che compongono quest’opera di Wells, godibilissimi e avvincenti, per certi versi perturbanti, rivelano il valore profetico di un genere letterario divenuto ormai una moderna...

Uscito nel 1905 e accolto con entusiasmo (8 ristampe nel primo anno) Anticipazioni evidenzia il convincimento di Wells (derivato dal Comte) che nessuna opera di rifondazione societaria sia possibile senza procedere prima a un rinnovamento intellettuale dell’uomo. Troviamo quindi i “New republicans”...

"The Sea Raiders" is a short story by H. G. Wells, first published in 1896 in "The Weekly Sun Literary Supplement". It was included in "The Plattner Story and Others", a collection of short stories by Wells published by Methuen & Co. in 1897. It was included in "The...

Wondrous worlds abound in the stories within. Heroes go on great adventures through magical realms, encounter alien races, and use their ingenuity to overcome impossible difficulties. From Robert E. Howard's thrilling stories of Conan the Barbarian to Nathaniel Hawthorne's subtle tale "The...

Short story told as an allegory set in the future, in form of narrative, with some trenchant remarks on the current situation, and a brilliant introduction to which the balance fails to measure up. Dialogs between God and Mr. Noah Lammock planning a new Ark in which the best of mankind may be rescued...

« Chronologiquement, c’est Jules Verne qui, avant Wells, met à l’honneur l’anticipation scientifique. Mais l’inspiration de chacun d’eux est de nature différente. Verne se sert d’une invention technologique dont il donne une version encore inconnue et dont il imagine, dans des intuitions...

Uscito nel 1905 e accolto con entusiasmo (8 ristampe nel primo anno) Anticipazioni evidenzia il convincimento di Wells (derivato dal Comte) che nessuna opera di rifondazione societaria sia possibile senza procedere prima a un rinnovamento intellettuale dell’uomo. Troviamo quindi i “New republicans”...

“Wells aveva uno straordinario senso comico, paragonabile a quello di Charles Dickens. Ne La storia di Mr Polly ci sono scene che è impossibile leggere senza farsi una bella risata, e che parrebbero, oggi, degne di Mr Bean!” – David Lodge – Alfred Polly ha un impiego routinario nel...

"The Empire of the Ants" is a 1905 short story by H. G. Wells about the littleness of humanity and the tenuousness of the dominion "Homo sapiens" enjoys on Earth. A 1977 film, "Empire of the Ants", was loosely based on Wells's story.

"Æpyornis Island", or "Aepyornis Island", is a short story by H. G. Wells, first published in 1894 in the "Pall Mall Budget". It was included in "The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents", the first collection of short stories by Wells, first published in 1895. In...