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The Sleeper Awakes
The Sleeper Awakes – H. G. Wells It is certainly an easy assumption to make that the readers of H. G. Wells‘ novel, „The Sleeper Awakes,“ will agree that it is a truly wonderful production. Mr. Wells has devoted himself strictly to the weird and fantastic, and with great success in every case. This book […]
A Short History Of The World
A Short History Of The World – H. G. Wells The romance of world history is Mr. Wells‘ theme. Shorn of elaboration and complication, this new book forms an interesting, informing and authoritative story of man through the ages. The book is meant to be read straightforwardly almost as a novel is read. It gives […]
The War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds – H. G. Wells Mr. H. G. Wells wears his skeleton of scientific knowledge so palpably on the outside that the most erratic flights of his imagination are received with a docile hushfulness accorded to few of the inventive. In The War of the Worlds, with clean-cut, stirring language, he […]
The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man – H. G. Wells Such a kind of literature as that of which The Invisible Man is a specimen is inevitable. We are living in an age of inventions. The conditions of life are being more or less modified by these. It is very natural to imagine the development of invention ; […]
The First Men in the Moon
The First Men in the Moon – H. G. Wells There is probably no other living writer than the author of „The War of the Worlds“ whose brain possesses that abnormal twist requisite to the production of such a story as „The First Men In the Moon.“ The conception of a planet peopled by a […]
Outline of History
Outline of History – H. G. Wells No book is provoking a more animated discussion among students of the social sciences at the present time than H. G. Wells‘ Outline of History. The author’s task, as he himself sets it, is to tell, „truly and clearly, in one continuous narrative, the whole story of life […]
The Island of Doctor Moreau
The Island of Doctor Moreau – H. G. Wells It is a shipwrecked student, whom chance carries to „The island of Dr. Moreau,“ who tells the story. It is a daring and gruesome tale, replete with horrors. Dr. Moreau is a celebrated English biologist and vivisectionist. His experiments are of such a nature that he […]
The World Set Free
The World Set Free – H. G. Wells The successor in our day to both Jules Verne and Edward Bellamy is H. G. Wells, and his book, „The World Set Free,“ embodies more of his creed than anything heretofore published. The goal of Mr. Wells‘ thinking is the end of war and the realization upon […]
The Wheels Of Chance
The Wheels Of Chance – H. G. Wells Mr. Wells’s Wheels of Chance is assuredly one of the best books he has written. It is as delightful a jeu d’esprit as we have seen for many a day. Mr. Wells has a vein of the richest and most delicate humor, which enlivens every page. The […]