Herbert George Wells - książki, ebooki i audiobooki

This book was written in 1899, and is one of the last science-fiction books Wells wrote before his turn towards social realism in his writing. In this dystopian novel, Graham falls into a coma-like sleep, a sleep that he wakes from some 203 years in the future. But times have changed. Due to the wise investments of a board of trustees, Graham’s money has compounded into the greatest fortune the world has ever seen, and the trustees have used it to virtually enslave the enti...

Dedicated to all schoolmasters and schoolmistresses and every teacher in the world, this re-interpretation of the Book of Job is one of the author’s finest discussion novels. Written in 1918, this is the story of Job Huss, the headmaster of a progressive school. It is saturated with the ideas of educational reform and of the teaching of world history as the basis for a common civilization and is one of his most ambitious dialogue narratives. Essentially it is a modernized p...

Herbert George Wells is a huge name in the world of literature. He is known as the king of Science Fiction stories. He was an accomplished teacher, a best-selling novelist, a historian and a journalist, however, he established his name in the world through his passion for writing and will be remembered forever as „Father of Science Fiction”. „The King Who Was a King – The Book of a Film” is a fascinating treatise on the development of film written by H. G. Wells and first p...

Depicting one man’s transformation and descent into brutality, H.G. Wells’s „The Invisible Man” is a riveting exploration of science’s power to corrupt. In this tale of psychological terror, a young scientist must live in the personal hell created by his own experiments. Using himself as the subject, the scientist discovers the key to invisibility; yet, he is unable to reverse the results. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but begins to become mentally ...

W wyniku eksperymentu Griffin staje się niewidzialny. Chcąc ukryć swój stan, szalony naukowiec owija się bandażem, lecz wywołuje tym niepokój mieszkańców wioski, do której przybywa, aby pracować nad odwróceniem procesu. Pragnie znów stać się normalnym człowiekiem, a zarazem wykorzystać swój wynalazek i zdobyć fortunę. Niestety kolejne próby nic nie dają, a sfrustrowany Griffin zaczyna terroryzować mieszkańców...

Klasyczna powieść science fiction, kilkakrotnie ekranizowana (m.in. przez Stevena Spielberga), a w roku 1938 przerobiona przez Orsona Wellesa na słuchowisko radiowe, którego emisja przeszła do historii. Głównym bohaterem jest nieznany z imienia pisarz i filozof, mieszkający w niewielkim miasteczku na południu Anglii, który opisuje swe losy podczas inwazji groźnych przybyszy z Marsa. Wells w swym dziele ukazuje nie tylko techniczne aspekty starcia dwóch cywilizacji, ale stawia...

Zbiór niezwykłych opowiadań mistrza pióra zawierający te oto utwory: „Królestwo mrówek”, „Z mateczką na Mörderbergu”, „Kryształowe jajko”, „Eliksir przyśpieszający”, „Niedoświadczone widmo”, „Człowiek, który robił cuda”.

O trzy tysiące mil od Chimborazo, o sto mil od śniegów Cotopaxi, w najdzikszym łańcuchu podzwrotnikowych Andów znajduje się tajemnicza dolina – Kraina Ślepców. Niegdyś dolina owa dostępna była dla ludzi: po przezwyciężeniu straszliwych grani i lodowej przełęczy, udawało się dotrzeć do odległych hal. Kilka rodzin metysów peruwiańskich ukryło się tam przed okrucieństwem i tyranią hiszpańskich władców. Wkrótce potem nastąpił tu przerażający wybuch Mindohamby, który na siedemnaśc...

Podobnie jak w przypadku „Skradzionego ciała”, „Niedoświadczony duch” (być może najbardziej znana opowieść o duchach Wellsa po „Czerwonym pokoju” - nie bez powodu, ponieważ jest to arcydzieło fikcji spekulacyjnej) ma na celu ostrzeżenie przed antropocentryczną pychą. Ludzie zanurzają się w morzach, docierają do nieba, nurzają się w ziemi, przeczesują lasy i przedzierają się przez śniegi, chętni i pewni perspektyw odkrycia. Sięgają także do niematerialnego eteru, aby skomuniko...

Decades ahead of his time, H.G. Wells leaps beyond the bounds of conventional imagination to tell the story of the Time Traveler. A seminal and hugely imaginative work of early science fiction, H.G. Wells’s „The Time Machine” is the first and greatest modern portrayal of time-travel and definitely a spiritual ancestor of every time travel story since. The book introduces a scientist who uses a Time Machine to be transferred into the age of a slowly dying earth. Humans have ...

H.G. Wells is an English author best known as a sci-fi writer, though he is also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, but in this 1917 novel, H. G. Wells weaves a more intuitive tale, about a bishop haunted by strange dreams and visions that challenge his faith. Lyrical, poetic, and verging on stream-of-consciousness in places, this little-read work of one of the most enduringly popular writers of mo...

The novel tells the prophetic story of man’s harnessing of the newly-discovered power of the atom, how this power nearly destroys civilization in a catastrophic war and foreshadows nuclear warfare years before research began and describes the chain reactions involved and the resulting radiation. It is presented as a history of the important events of the 20th century, jumping back and forth amongst narratives of different eyewitnesses and major players in those events. „The...

„Człowiek, który robił cuda” to opowiadanie autorstwa Herberta George’a Wellsa, uznanego za jednego z pionierów gatunku science fiction.
Opowiadanie H. G. Wellsa dotyka tematu granicy władzy człowieka nad światem i innymi bytami. Czy prosty człowiek, do tego ateista i sceptyk, może skutecznie panować nad swoją siłą sprawiania tego, czego tylko zapragnie?

The story centers on Joseph Davis, a popular writer of romanticized histories, who comes to believe that some people differ fundamentally from most of us. They are more rational, possibly more talented and intelligent. His wife has increasingly become a stranger, the imminent birth of his first child has left him in a panicked state, and his rosy-tinted histories have lately begun to strike him as so much bosh. And then he overhears a conversation at his Planetarium Club, i...

A fictional biography of Rudolf „Rud” Whitlow, who builds a political party that slowly becomes a world dominant dictatorship. Wells wrote the work just before World War II as Hitler was consolidating his power in Germany. Rud, is a baby boy, and later, grew to be a young man who had a remarkable talent of oratory: the gift of gab. He is eventually encouraged to perform public speaking, lecturing and finally, revolutionary speeches. Through this character, Wells creates a p...

An intriguing HG Wells work, not of the sci-fi variety, which details a man’s struggle to find himself and get along with his world. Published in 1910, this novel is the story of Alfred Polly, a generally non-descript member of the English lower middle class. The story begins when he is thirty-five years old, miserably unhappy with his life, both his circumstances and himself. In other words, he is a man with a badly muddled sense of reality who, sick of the life that he le...

H.G Wells wrote many tales of adventure and exploration, which were fascinating to early twentieth century readers as transportation to faraway lands was so difficult back then. Wells’ „Modern Utopia” was first published in 1905. It set the scene for many modern, scientific utopias and dystopias. The story is set on a planet very like earth. The Utopian Planet differs from earth in that the inhabitants have created a perfect society. Two men, the narrator and his colleague ...

A charming tale of a young recalcitrant boy’s wanderings through England. Full of humour. It is a light tale, and one of Wells’ that holds up the best. Though young Bealby is determined to rise above his mother’s servant status, no amount of struggle helps him to prevail. He reluctantly leaves his home for Shonts, a big country house, to work as a steward’s boy. But a fateful weekend visit by distinguished personages, including the strange yet captivating Lord Chancellor, m...

Stella has it all – looks, intelligence and an undergraduate place at Cambridge, not to mention Gemini, her fervent admirer at Oxford. Stella and Gemini, the two babes of the story, come increasingly under the influence of a rather impressive psycho-therapeutist whose groundbreaking theories capture their imaginations. But when tragedy strikes they are soon to learn that intellectualism brings cold comfort. When James is disowned by his wrathful relatives, he goes to Russia...

„The Brothers – A Story.” Herbert George Wells was a prolific English writer who wrote in a variety of genres, including the novel, politics, history, and social commentary. Wells returned to a literary genre in which he had always excelled: the satire written in the form of an allegory. In a land torn apart by civil war, Bolaris was fiercely loyal to the Strong Men. So when Number Four informed him that Ratzel, leader of the enemy, had been captured, it was naturally a cau...

„Wojna światów” to powieść z gatunku science fiction autorstwa Herberta George’a Wellsa. Utwór ukazał się w 1898 roku. Książka uważana jest za jedną z najważniejszych w historii światowej literatury fantastycznej. Należy do kanonu gatunku i na wiele lat wprowadziła fantastykę na tory apokaliptycznych wizji przyszłości. Powieść przedstawia inwazję Marsjan na Ziemię. Przybysze chcą opanować Ziemię, a ludzie stanowić mają dla nich źródło pożywienia. Wells opisał w swojej wi...