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For Mr Britling, eccentric and vivacious writer, the summer of 1914 consisted of long, hot days and luxurious house parties with a host of international guests to entertain him. And when he tired of this, he hopped across the channel where his devoted mistress was patiently waiting. But all this was about to change as Germany began marching into Belgium and Europe no longer provided the easy diversion he had so enjoyed. „The World of William Clissold” is a 1926 novel by H.G...

This novel is a great document illustrating the anticipation of comings of the 20th century. This early H.G. Wells’ tale is about a 20 year old man who has a job as a Drapers Assistant, a job which he is probably too old for. Loaded with poor self esteem and a second class status, poor Mr. Hoopdriver takes a ten day holiday. On this holiday he falls for a young socialite named Jessie who is rebelling against her stepmother and society. She soon falls prey to a married man t...

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...

Mr. Wells builds novels out of ideas as other men build them of imagery and emotions. H. G. Wells takes us on a very entertaining and profound journey via a character named William who insists on living life nobly and thoroughly. Starting in his boyhood, and throughout his life, it produced profound adventures, yet also make him ridiculous, and even inspiring. It is a passion for courage, for personal nobility, for service to others, for self-sacrificing, all for the social...

H.G. Wells is best remembered as a central figure in the development of the science fiction genre. However, much of his literary output was more conventional in nature, and he published a number of novels dealing with interpersonal relationships and social themes. H.G. Wells was so charmed by Margaret Sanger that he based „The Secret Places of the Heart” on his time with her. The novel is a thinly-veiled autobiography that depicts an English gentleman, Sir Richard Hardy, wh...

About a political idealist who changes his colours and engages in a sexual adventure. A successful author and Liberal MP Richard Remington appears to be a man to envy. But underneath his superficial contentment, he is far from happy with either his marriage or the politics of his party. „The New Machiavelli” describes the disarray into which his life is thrown when he meets the young and beautiful Isabel Rivers and becomes tormented by desire. At first, he struggles to resi...

Although most famous for his sci-fi, Wells’ best work often deals with ordinary people having big thoughts in picturesque settings. „The Passionate Friends” is a fine representative example of this. Wells uses the changing relationships among childhood friends as the media for his thoughts on human relations on personal and global scales, and of what it all means. On the death of his father, Stephen Stratton writes a long and deeply personal letter to his son, hoping that, ...

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...

This story is essentially the history of the opening and of the realisation of the Great War as it happened to one small group of people in Essex, and more particularly as it happened to one human brain. „Mr. Britling Sees It Through” begins with a lighthearted account of an American visiting England for the first time, but the outbreak of war changes everything. Day by day and month by month, Wells chronicles the unfolding events and public reaction as witnessed by the inh...

Often called the father of science fiction, British author Herbert George Wells literary works are notable for being some of the first titles of the science fiction genre. „Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island” is a 1928 novel by H. G. Wells. It tells the story of a young Englishman Arnold Blettsworthy who, after being betrayed by a business partner, is advised to go travelling in an attempt to recover from his severe disillusionment. During the voyage the ship is wrecked and...

This novel is split into two parts, „The Utopographer in the Garden” and „Advent”. The former is set on the Italian Riviera where the novel’s central figures, a British couple, The Rylands, entertain guests. The latter, written largely in the form of letters between the couple during the husband’s trip to London, provides commentary on British political landscape of the 1920’s. A pretty good book, detailed discussions on Socialism, Communism, Utopia and so on. This novel wa...

„Marriage” is a surprising story about relationships and people by science fiction legend, H.G. Wells. It features two protagonists: Marjorie Pope, the oldest daughter of a carriage manufacturer whose business has been ruined by the advent of the automobile, and R. A. G. Trafford, a physicist specializing in crystallography whom she marries against the wishes of her family at the age of 21. The novel traces the history of their relationship, which begins when an early airpl...

Mr. Lewisham is an ambitious young teacher who has grand plans for his future. Indeed he has written up a Plan or Schema as he calls it and has committed himself to daily study to improve himself. We follow him as he moves to London and becomes a student. He also gets married and the later part of the novel is about how his naive beliefs about himself and the world survive this transition. „Love and Mr. Lewisham” is the story of a young man who seeks to better himself and a...

Arthur Kipps, an orphaned draper’s assistant of humble means, unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money and that is when all his troubles begin. After being left a fortune by a rich uncle, Kipps finds himself in a position to marry Helen Walshingham. His main problem is that he is uneducated, knowing next to nothing of the world of books or the manners of the society he aspires to join. Helen, together with Kipps’s mentor Chester Coote, set about the task of making him a g...

Wells’s satire on literature, „Boon” was originally published under the pseudonym Reginald Bliss; a follow-up to the Fabian-savaging „The New Machiavelli”. It purports, however, to be by the fictional character Reginald Bliss, and for some time after publication Wells denied authorship. „Boon” is best known for its part in Wells’s debate on the nature of literature with Henry James, who is caricatured in the book. But in „Boon” Wells also mocks himself, calling into questio...

The book starts in late Victorian England and ends shortly after the first world war. It covers the transition between the end of the Victorian era, and the aimlessness of the next generation very well. The main characters grow up with the best education that can be found in England at the time, which is freely admitted to be not very good. They grow up and deal with love, decadence and the reality of war in a very meaningful way. Beautiful and brilliant this remarkable nov...

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...

First published in 1909, it focuses on feminist issues from the point of view of a young woman entering adulthood and enduring prejudice about her place in the world. And this novel, „Ann Veronica”, tells the story of a middle class young woman who is fed up of being expected to be purely decorative. Her father and her boyfriends really are incapable of understanding why she should want to study science, or control her own life in any way. One Wednesday, Ann Veronica Stanle...

O miłości do koni i o talencie, którego nie wolno zmarnować. Można odnaleźć wiele opisów przypadków koni trudnych, kompletnie nieobliczalnych i bardzo niebezpiecznych. Konie te kopały, gryzły, stawały dęba, ponosiły, zrywały najsilniejsze nawet pęta. Czy istniał na nie jakiś sposób? Kozacka legenda mówi o ludziach potrafiących w niewytłumaczalny sposób okiełznać konie. Zaczęto na nich mówić czarodzieje. Kozacy wierzyli, że ludzie ci dostali od Boga szczególny dar. C...

Genialna powieść z gatunku płaszcza i szpady!Wspaniała wartka akacja, wciągająca fabuła, miłość i śmierć, intrygi i porwania, więzienia i ucieczki, Cyganie i szlachta, stary Paryż i dawna Francja, tajemnicze zaułki, skomplikowane intrygi, wszystko to sprawia, że od powieści po prostu trudno się oderwać. No i oczywiście tytułowa, nieomal mityczna, a jednak autentyczna postać znakomitego francuskiego filozofa, pisarza, ale też awanturnika i szermierza Cyrana de Bergerac, żyjące...

Początek XX wieku. Na końcu świata, gdzie diabeł mówi dobranoc, dogorywa w ciszy zapomniany przez Boga, ludzi i monsiniora Maurycego, biskupa diecezji Feixes, warowny klasztor La Ràpita, siedziba mniszek klauzurowych. Przewodzi im wielebna matka Dorotea, kobieta surowa i pozbawiona poczucia humoru. Brat Junoy, utalentowany muzyk, zostaje tam zesłany w charakterze spowiednika. Pozbawiony dostępu do instrumentów franciszkanin dzięki sile wyobraźni nieustannie przenosi się do ab...

Kiedy na tydzień przed świętami Bożego Narodzenia stara Anna Neshov nagle dostaje wylewu i leży na łożu śmierci, jej trzej synowie muszą stawić czoła nie tylko chorobie matki, lecz także własnemu życiu oraz skomplikowanym wzajemnym relacjom (bracia od wielu lat nie mieli ze sobą żadnego kontaktu). Erlend pracuje jako dekorator wystaw sklepowych w Kopenhadze, Margido jest właścicielem małego zakładu pogrzebowego, a najstarszy, 56-letni Tor, prowadzi rodzinne gospodarstwo w B...

Najsłynniejsze dzieło noblisty Hermana Hessego. Bohater, Harry Haller, ma poczucie, że nie przystaje do otaczającego go świata pełnego materializmu. Na dodatek jest zmęczony ciągłą walką, którą toczy w sobie – jego humanistyczna wrażliwość zmaga się z wilczą drapieżnością. Wszystko to zmienia się, gdy spotka kobietę, która nie tylko wprowadzi go do pewnego niezwykłego teatru, ale także podważy jego cały dotychczasowy pogląd na życie. Niezwykła, magiczna, nieprzemijająco poc...

„Rosa alchemica” przenosi nas w świat XIX-wiecznych alchemików i okultystów i tym samym wprowadza atmosferę tajemniczości i stawia zagadki, które czytelnik bardzo chciałby rozwiązać. Żyjący w odosobnieniu poszukiwacz wiedzy tajemnej czuje się wyczerpany bezowocnością samotnych dążeń, gdy pewnego dnia odwiedza go niepokojący gość i proponuje wstąpienie do zakonu Róży Alchemików. To, co początkowo kojarzy się bohaterowi z wariactwem i fanatyzmem okazuje się jednak intrygującą p...