"New Worlds For Old: A Plain Account of Modern Socialism" by H. G. Wells. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are...
Russia in the Shadows is the title of the book by H. G. Wells published early in 1921, which includes a series of articles previously printed in The Sunday Express in connection with Wells's second visit to Russia in September and October 1920. Contents: Petersburg in Collapse Drift and Salvage The Quintessence of Bolshevism The Creative Effort in Russia The Petersburg Soviet The Dreamer in the Kremlin The Envoy Herbert George «H. G.» Wells (1866 – 1946) was an English writer, now best...
"Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences" by H. G. Wells. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to...
Select Conversations with an Uncle, published in 1895, was H.G. Wells's first literary publication in book form. It consists of reports of twelve conversations between a fictional witty uncle who has returned to London from South Africa with «a certain affluence,» as well as two other conversations (one on aestheticism that takes place in a train, entitled «A Misunderstood Artist,» and another on physiognomy, entitled «The Man with a Nose»). CONTENTS: 1. Of Conversation And The Anatomy Of...
Compiled in one book, the essential collection of speculative science fiction books:<br><br>Looking Backward 2000-1887, Edward Bellamy <br>Flatland, a romance of many dimensions, Edwin Abbott Abbott <br>Utopia, Thomas More <br>Gulliver of Mars, Edwin L. Arnold <br>The Emerald City of Oz, L. Frank Baum <br>The Time Machine, H. G. (Herbert George) Wells <br>Anthem, by Ayn Rand <br>A Voyage to Arcturus, David Lindsay <br>20000 Leagues...
Tales of Space and Time is a fantasy and science fiction collection of three short stories and two novellas written by the English author H. G. Wells between 1897 and 1898. It was first published by Doubleday & McClure Co. in 1899. All the stories had first been published in various monthly periodicals and this was the first volume to collect these stories. These are the stories contained in this collection showing the periodicals in which they were first published: 1."The Crystal Egg"...
The Plattner Story and Others is a collection of seventeen short stories written by H.G. Wells. Contents: "The Plattner Story" «The Argonauts of the Air» «The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham» «In the Abyss» «The Apple» «Under the Knife» «The Sea-Raiders» «Pollock and the Porroh Man» «The Red Room» «The Cone» «The Purple Pileus» «The Jilting of Jane» «In the Modern Vein» «A Catastrophe» «The Lost Inheritance» «The Sad Story of a Dramatic Critic» «A Slip Under the Microscope» Herbert George...
The first great novel to imagine time travel, The Time Machine (1895) follows its scientist narrator on an incredible journey that takes him finally to Earth's last moments—and perhaps his own. The scientist who discovers how to transform himself in The Invisible Man (1897) will also discover, too late, that he has become unmoored from society and from his own sanity. The War of the Worlds (1898)—the seminal masterpiece of alien invasion adapted by Orson Welles for his notorious 1938 radio...
