Download or read book H G Wells The Social Novels written by H.G. Wells and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 1499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DISCOVER A DIFFERENT SIDE TO H. G. WELLS . . . H.G. Wells's social tales caused a sensation when they were first published in the early twentieth century. Piercingly funny, yet sympathetic, and containing a cast of colourful characters, they have drawn comparisons to the works of Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. From the hapless Kipps, who is plunged into a world of high society, the rules of which he fails to understand, to Mr Polly, the draper, desperate to escape his shop and nagging wife, to Ann Veronica, a young woman rebelling against her father's stern patriarchal rule, these satires of Edwardian mores are both horribly funny and provoke questions about the class system and opportunities for social reform. The social novels include LOVE AND MR LEWISHAM (1900), KIPPS (1905), ANN VERONICA (1909), TONO-BUNGAY (1909) and THE HISTORY OF MR POLLY (1910).

Download or read book The H G Wells Reader written by John Huntington and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2003-06-09 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection, the first of its kind, indicates the full breadth of Well's visionary views and social commentary.

Download or read book The World Set Free written by H. G. Wells and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a novel written on the eve of World War I, H. G. Wells imagines a war “to end all wars” that begins in atomic apocalypse but ends in an enlightened utopia. Writing in 1913, on the eve of World War I’s mass slaughter and long before World War II’s mushroom cloud finale, H. G. Wells imagined a war that begins in atomic apocalypse but ends in a utopia of enlightened world government. Set in the 1950s, Wells’s neglected novel The World Set Free describes a conflict so horrific that it actually is the war that ends war. Wells—the first to imagine a “uranium-based bomb”—offers a prescient description of atomic warfare that renders cities unlivable for years: “Whole blocks of buildings were alight and burning fiercely, the trembling, ragged flames looking pale and ghastly and attenuated in comparison with the full-bodied crimson glare beyond.” Drawing on discoveries by physicists and chemists of the time, Wells foresees both a world powered by clean, plentiful atomic energy—and the destructive force of the neutron chain reaction. With a cast of characters including Marcus Karenin, the moral center of the narrative; Firmin, a proto-Brexiteer; and Egbert, the visionary young British monarch, Wells dramatizes a world struggling for sanity. Wells’s supposedly happy ending—a planetary government presided over by European men—may not appeal to contemporary readers, but his anguish at the world’s self-destructive tendencies will strike a chord. Sarah Cole is the author of Inventing Tomorrow: H.G. Wells and The Twentieth Century (2019). The Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Dean of Humanities at Columbia University, she is the cofounder of the NYNJ Modernism Seminar and founder of the Humanities War and Peace Initiative at Columbia. She is also the author of Modernism, Male Friendship, and the First World War (2003) and At the Violet Hour: Modernism and Violence in England and Ireland (2012). Joshua Glenn, who was the first to describe the years 1900–1935 as science fiction’s “Radium Age,” has helped popularize stories from the era for over a decade now. A former Boston Globe staffer and publisher of the indie intellectual journal Hermenaut, he is coauthor of The Idler’s Glossary (2008), Significant Objects (2012), and the family activities guide UNBORED (2012). He is also cofounder of the brand consultancy Semiovox; and he publishes the blogHiLobrow.

Download or read book Seven Novels written by H. G. Wells and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven novels. The Time Machine - The Island Of Dr. Moreau - The Invisible Man - The War Of The Worlds - The First Men In The Moon - The Food Of The Gods - In The Days Of The Comet.

Download or read book Kipps written by H G Wells and published by . This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until he was nearly arrived at adolescence it did not become clear to Kipps how it was that he wasunder the care of an aunt and uncle instead of having a father and mother like other boys. Yet hehad vague memories of a somewhere else that was not New Romney-of a dim room, a windowlooking down on white buildings-and of a some one else who talked to forgotten people, and whowas his mother. He could not recall her features very distinctly, but he remembered with extremedefinition a white dress she wore, with a pattern of little sprigs of flowers and little bows of ribbonupon it, and a girdle of straight-ribbed white ribbon about the waist. Linked with this, he knew nothow, were clouded half-obliterated recollections of scenes in which there was weeping, weeping inwhich he was inscrutably moved to join. Some terrible tall man with a loud voice played a part inthese scenes, and either before or after them there were impressions of looking for interminableperiods out of the windows of railway trains in the company of these two people....He knew, though he could not remember that he had ever been told, that a certain faded, wistfulface, that looked at him from a plush and gilt framed daguerreotype above the mantel of the "sittingroom," was the face of his mother. But that knowledge did not touch his dim memories with anyelucidation. In that photograph she was a girlish figure, leaning against a photographer's stile, andwith all the self-conscious shrinking natural to that position. She had curly hair and a face faryounger and prettier than any other mother in his experience. She swung a Dolly Varden hat by thestring, and looked with obedient respectful eyes on the photographer-gentleman who hadcommanded the pose. She was very slight and pretty. But the phantom mother that haunted hismemory so elusively was not like that, though he could not remember how she differed. Perhaps shewas older, or a little less shrinking, or, it may be, only dressed in a different way....It is clear she handed him over to his aunt and uncle at New Romney with explicit directions and acertain endowment. One gathers she had something of that fine sense of social distinctions thatsubsequently played so large a part in Kipps' career. He was not to go to a "common" school, sheprovided, but to a certain seminary in Hastings that was not only a "middle-class academy," withmortar boards and every evidence of a higher social tone, but also remarkably cheap.

Download or read book A Modern Utopia written by by H. G. Wells and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-03-03 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The H G Wells Collection written by H. G. Wells and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 a traveller recounting his adventures into the future, and The Island of Doctor Moreau explores the terrifying boundaries of human and animal morality. Other stories included are The War of the Worlds, The First Men in the Moon, When the Sleeper Wakes and The World Set Free. This array of thrilling stories ranges from scenes of alien invasions to visions of dystopian futures.

Download or read book Kipps Annotated written by H. G. Wells and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul is a novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1905. Humorous yet sympathetic, this perceptive social novel is generally regarded as a masterpiece, and was the author's own favourite work.

Download or read book Kipps 1905 By H G Wells written by H. G. Wells and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04-25 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul is a novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1905. Humorous yet sympathetic, the perceptive social novel is generally regarded as a masterpiece, and it was his own favourite work Plot: The protagonist of the Bildungsroman is Arthur "Artie" Kipps, an illegitimate orphan. In Book I ("The Making of Kipps"), he is raised by his aged aunt and uncle, who keep a little shop in New Romney, on the southern coast of Kent. He attends the Cavendish Academy ("a middle-class school," not a "boarding school,") in Hastings, in East Sussex. "By inherent nature he had a sociable disposition," and befriends Sid Pornick, the neighbour's boy. Kipps falls in love with Sid's younger sister, Ann. Ann gives him half a sixpence as a token of their love when, at 14, he is apprenticed to the Folkestone Drapery Bazaar, run by Mr. Shalford. However, the Pornicks move away and Kipps forgets Ann. He becomes infatuated with Helen Walshingham, who teaches a wood carving class on Thursday nights. When Chitterlow, an actor and aspiring playwright, meets Kipps by running into him with his bicycle, their encounter turns into an inebriated evening that leads to Kipps being "swapped" (dismissed). However, before he leaves Mr. Shalford's establishment, Chitterlow brings to his attention a newspaper advertisement that leads to an unsuspected inheritance for Kipps from his grandfather of a house and £26,000. In Book II ("Mr. Coote the Chaperon"), Kipps fails in his attempt to adapt to his new social class while he lives in Folkestone. By chance, he meets a Mr. Coote, who undertakes his social education; that leads to renewed contact with Helen Walshingham, and they become engaged. However, the process of bettering himself alienates Kipps more and more, especially since Helen has takes advantage of Kipps's fortune to establish herself and her brother in London society. Chance meetings with Sid and then Ann, now a house servant, lead to a decision to abandon ..................... Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946), usually referred to as H. G. Wells, was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, satire, biography, and autobiography, including even two books on war games. He is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called a "father of science fiction," along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. During his own lifetime, however, he was most prominent as a forward-looking, even prophetic social critic who devoted his literary talents to the development of a progressive vision on a global scale. A futurist, he wrote a number of utopian works and foresaw the advent of airplanes, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, satellite television and something resembling the World Wide Web. His science fiction imagined time travel, alien invasion, invisibility, and biological engineering. Brian Aldiss referred to Wells as the "Shakespeare of science fiction." His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times. Wells's earliest specialised training was in biology, and his thinking on ethical matters took place in a specifically and fundamentally Darwinian context. He was also from an early date an outspoken socialist, often (but not always, as at the beginning of the First World War) sympathising with pacifist views. His later works became increasingly political and didactic, and he wrote little science fiction, while he sometimes indicated on official documents that his profession was that of journalist....

Download or read book H G Wells Collected Novels Short Stories Essays Articles written by H. G. Wells and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-30 with total page 7422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully edited collection of science fiction, action adventure novels & dystopias has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Table of Contents: H. G. Wells by J. D. Beresford Mr. Wells as Historian by Arnold Wycombe Gomme Mr. H. G. Wells and the Giants by G. K. Chesterton Essays and Articles Novels and Short Stories: A Modern Utopia Ann Veronica Bealby In the Days of the Comet Joan and Peter Kipps Love and Mr. Lewisham Marriage Mr. Britling Sees It Through The Chronic Argonauts The First Men in the Moon The Food of the Gods The History of Mr Polly The Invisible Man The Island of Dr Moreau The New Machiavelli The Passionate Friends The Prophetic Trilogy The Research Magnificent The Sea Lady The Secret Places of the Heart The Soul of a Bishop The Time Machine The Undying Fire The War in the Air The War of the Worlds The Wheels of Chance The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman The Wonderful Visit The World Set Free Tono-bungay When the Sleeper Wakes Collections of Short Stories Short Stories: A Catastrophe A Deal in Ostriches A Dream of Armageddon A Slip Under the Microscope A Story of the Days to Come A Story of the Stone Age A Tale of the Twentieth Century A Talk with Gryllotalpa How Gabriel Became Thompson How Pingwill Was Routed In the Abyss Le Mari Terrible Little Mother Up the Morderberg Miss Winchelsea's Heart Mr. Brisher's Treasure Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation Mr. Marshall's Doppelganger Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland My First Aeroplane Our Little Neighbour Perfect Gentleman on Wheels Pollock and the Porroh Man The Empire of the Ants The Flowering of the Strange Orchid The Flying Man The Grisly Folk ...

Download or read book The Passionate Friends A Novel written by H.G. Wells and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-10-31 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Passionate Friends: A Novel H. G. Wells - The Passionate Friends: A Novel is a 1913 book by H. G. Wells. Written as a narration by the novel's protagonist Stephen Stratton, and addressed to his eldest son. The book follows his life, time in the war, and his troubles with love and relationships.

Download or read book Mankind in the Making written by H. G. Wells and published by Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 1255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946), known primarily as H. G. Wells, was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, and social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games. He is now best remembered for his science fiction novels, and Wells is called the father of science fiction, along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898).

Download or read book The New World Order written by H.G. Wells and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a nonfiction book that explores the general ideas and realities of war and world peace. In this book, the author attempts to state the things we must do and the price we must pay for world peace if we intend to achieve it. The book contains the following chapters: The End of an Age - Open Conference - Disruptive Forces - Class-War - Unsated Youth - Socialism Unavoidable - Federation - The New Type of Revolution - Politics for the Sane Man - Declaration of the Rights of Man - International Politics - World Order in Being.

Download or read book H G Wells written by Herbert George Wells and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Best Science Fiction Stories of H G Wells written by H. G. Wells and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete text of The Invisible Man plus 17 short stories, including "The Crystal Egg," "Aepyornis Island," "The Strange Orchid," "The Man Who Could Work Miracles," and "A Dream of Armageddon."

Download or read book The Young H G Wells written by Claire Tomalin and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating journey into the life of H.G. Wells, from one of Britain's best biographers How did the first forty years of H. G. Wells' life shape the father of science fiction? From his impoverished childhood in a working-class English family, to his determination to educate himself at any cost, to the serious ill health that dominated his twenties and thirties, his complicated marriages, and love affair with socialism, the first forty years of H. G. Wells' extraordinary life would set him on a path to become one of the world's most influential writers. The sudden success of The Time Machine and The War of The Worlds transformed his life and catapulted him to international fame; he became the writer who most inspired Orwell and countless others, and predicted men walking on the moon seventy years before it happened. In this remarkable, empathetic biography, Claire Tomalin paints a fascinating portrait of a man like no other, driven by curiosity and desiring reform, a socialist and a futurist whose new and imaginative worlds continue to inspire today. 'The finest of biographers' Hilary Mantel 'A most intelligent and sympathetic biographer' Daily Telegraph 'One of the best biographers of her generation' Guardian

Download or read book The Fate of Man written by H.G. Wells and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the reality of the human situation and what is happening to it. The book explores the following topics: Introduction - Preliminary Statement - Biology Invades History - How Species Survive - History Becomes Ecology - Union Now? - What Is Democracy? - Where Is Democracy? - What Man Has To Learn - Sample Of A Generation - Estimating Hope - Survey Of Existing Forces - The Jewish Influence - Christendom - What Is Protestantism? - The Nazi Religion - Totalitarianism - The British Oligarchy - Shintoism - The Chinese Outlook - Subject Peoples - Communism And Russia - American Mentality - Three Factors In Everyone - Summary - Impossibility Of Utopianism - Decadent World