Bücher von H. G. Wells

Ein Kleinod der englischen Literatur erstmals auf Deutsch, übersetzt von Susanne Luber: H.G. Wells (1866-1946), der für seine Science-Fiction und Abenteuerromane weltbekannt ist, liefert mit seinem frühen Werk von 1896 eine kurzweilige Hommage an das Fahrrad als Instrument der Freiheit und des gesellschaftlichen Wandels.Der junge Tuchmachergeselle Hoopdriver macht im Urlaub eine Landpartie mit dem Fahrrad. Die idyllische südenglische Landschaft fliegt vorbei und er mehr als nur einmal von dem noch neuen Gefährt, dessen Handhabung etwas Übung erfordert. Dann begegnet er der gesellschaftlich deutlich besser gestellten jungen Dame Jessie Milton, die ebenfalls und weit routinierter mit dem Fahrrad unterwegs ist. Die Begegnung mit der hübschen, selbstbewussten Jessie öffnet dem sympathischen Helden die Augen für die Schönheit und die Möglichkeiten des Lebens.Eine Sozialsatire, eine humoristische und gleichzeitig bis in jedes Detail realistische Darstellung, die die englische Klassengesellschaft der spätviktorianischen Zeit wie unter einem Vergrößerungsglas vorführt. "Hierzulande respektiert man Klassenunterschied"; heißt es gegen Ende des Romans, und die Versuche der beiden Protagonisten, Grenzen zu überwinden, die ihnen zum Teil nicht einmal bewusst sind, können als komisch gelesen werden, aber auch als tragisch. Humor, Satire und Realismus gehen Hand in Hand.Denn Wells wusste, wovon er schrieb: Er selbst wurde als 14-Jähriger in eine verhasste Lehre als Textilverkäufer gesteckt und war in den 1890er-Jahren, der Zeit des Fahrradbooms in England, ein begeisterter Radfahrer. Er kannte jeden beschriebenen Ort und jede Straße von eigenen Fahrradtouren. Zudem war er als fortschrittlicher Intellektueller mit der frühen Frauenbewegung und dem Typus der "Neuen Frau" konfrontiert. So steckt unter der leichten und amüsanten Erzählung nicht nur eigene Erfahrung, sondern auch handfeste Sozialkritik.Ins Deutsche übersetzt von Susanne Luber und mit 40 Original-Illustrationen der Erstausgabe von 1896 von James Ayton Symington versehen.

Dans l'abîme, un livre classique, a été considéré comme important tout au long de l'histoire humaine, et pour que cet ouvrage ne soit jamais oublié, nous, aux éditions Alpha, nous sommes efforcés de le préserver en republiant ce livre dans un format moderne pour les générations présentes et futures. Tout ce livre a été reformaté, retapé et conçu. Ces livres ne sont pas constitués de copies numérisées de leur travail original et, par conséquent, le texte est clair et lisible.

This work by H. G. Wells was first published in 1910. In contrast to Wells¿ early speculative fiction works like The Time Machine, this is a comic novel set in the everyday world of the late Victorian and early Edwardian era in England. Despite the less than happy life-story of Mr. Polly, it is an amusing book, enlivened by Polly¿s inventive attitude towards the English language.Alfred Polly¿s mother dies when he is only seven, and he is brought up by his father and a stern aunt. He is indifferently educated, and leaves school in his early teens to be employed as a draper¿s assistant. As the years pass, he finds himself more and more disenchanted with his occupation, but it is too late to change it. Eventually his father dies and leaves him a legacy which may be enough to set up in business for himself. He sets up his own shop in a small town and stumbles into an unhappy marriage. The business is not profitable, and in his middle-age, unhappy and dyspeptic, Mr. Polly comes up with an idea to bring an end to his troubles. Things, however, do not go as he planned, and lead to an unexpected result.Wells¿ later work often displays his passion for social reform. Here, that passion is less obvious, but nevertheless he demonstrates his sympathy for middle-class people raised like Mr. Polly with but a poor education and trapped into either dead-end jobs or in failing retail businesses.The History of Mr. Polly was well-received by critics at the time of publication and was subsequently made into both a film and two different BBC television serials.

The Wonderful Visit is an early work by H. G. Wells, published in the same year as The Time Machine. It takes a gentle, semi-comic approach to some of Wells¿ social concerns by using the device of an angel fallen into our world from the Land of Dreams. This external observer, largely ignorant of the ways of humans and our society, is able to focus an unbiased eye on our failings.The story opens with a strange glare over the little village of Sidderford one night, observed by only a few. But then reports arise of a Strange Bird being seen in the woods. The Rev. Hilyer, the Vicar of Sidderford, is a keen ornithologist. He takes his gun and goes out to hunt this unusual specimen for his collection. He does indeed see a strange flying creature, shoots at it, and brings it down. To his horror, he finds that he has shot and wounded a man-like creature with wings¿in fact, an Angel.The Vicar restores the Angel to health, but finds himself incapable of convincing others that this person really is an angel. The continuing clashes of the Angel¿s idealistic points of view with the harsh reality of the human world are the core of this story.The Wonderful Visit was well-received by critics and Wells¿ contemporaries. Joseph Conrad praised it for its imaginative approach in a personal letter to Wells.

After learning of atomic physics, H. G. Wells began to think of its potential impact on human society. In The World Set Free, atomic energy causes massive unemployment, shaking the already fragile social order. The ambitious powers of the world decide to seize the opportunity to compete for dominance, and a world war breaks out, echoing the looming Great War about to ignite in 1914. Waking to the catastrophe, humanity begins the hard search for a way into a better future. The novel traces a soldier, an ex-king, a despot, and a sage through a profound transformation of human society, and we gain a window into Wells¿ own thoughts and hopes along the way.With one prophetic stroke, Wells gives the first detailed depiction of atomic energy and its potential destructive power, and predicts the use of the air power in modern warfare. He may have even directly influenced the development of nuclear weapons, as the physicist Leó Szilárd, shortly after reading the novel in 1932, then conceived of harnessing the neutron chain reaction critical to the development of the atom bomb.

Tono-Bungay, published in 1909, is a semi-autobiographical novel by H. G. Wells. Though it has some fantastical and absurdist elements, it is a realist novel rather than one of Well¿s ¿scientific romances.¿The novel is written in the first person from the point of view of George Ponderevo, the son of the housekeeper at a large estate. He is made to feel his inferiority when he is banished after fighting with the son of one of the owner¿s aristocratic relatives, and is sent to live with his own poor but religiously fervent relatives. He can¿t abide or agree with their religious views and returns to his mother who sends him on to live with his Uncle, Edward Ponderevo, then a local pharmacist in a small town. Uncle Ponderevo, though, has grand plans, and eventually makes a fortune by selling a quack patent medicine he calls ¿Tono-Bungay.¿ George joins him in this endeavour and becomes rich himself, eventually turning his interests towards the new science of aeronautics. Meanwhile the Tono-Bungay scheme expands enormously and begins to topple towards its own destruction.Throughout the novel, George comments cynically on England¿s class system, the shabbiness of commerce, and the lies told in advertising. We also follow his unfortunate love life, his unwise marriage, his divorce, and his eventual reconnection with a woman he loved as a child.Tono-Bungay met with a mixed reception on first release, but has since come to be considered as perhaps Wells¿ finest realist novel, an assessment Wells himself shared.

H. G. Wells¿ classic tale of alien invasion has to this day never been out of print. Like many works of the era, it was originally published as a serial¿though the publisher, Pearson¿s Magazine, demanded to know the ending before committing to publication.The War of the Worlds, with its matter-of-fact narrative style and deft mixture of contemporary science and fictionalized interstellar war machines, became an instant hit. Its themes of colonialism, social Darwinism, good and evil, and total war still resonate with modern-day readers, so much so that it¿s been continuously adapted for screen, radio, television, comics, and print.

We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age.Will you support our efforts with a donation?Kipps is the story of Arthur ¿Artie¿ Kipps, an illegitimate orphan raised by his aunt and uncle on the southern coast of England in the town of New Romney. Kipps falls in love with neighbor friend Ann Pornick but soon loses touch with her as he begins an apprenticeship at a drapery establishment in the port town of Folkestone. After a drunken evening with his new friend Chitterlow, an aspiring playwright, Kipps discovers he is to inherit a house and sizable income from his grandfather. Kipps then struggles to understand what his new-found wealth means in terms of his place in society and his love life.While today H. G. Wells is best known for his ¿scientific romances¿ such as The Time Machine and The Island of Doctor Moreau, Wells considered Kipps his favorite work. Wells worked closely with (some say pestered) his publisher Macmillan to employ creative promotional schemes, and thanks to a cheap edition sales blossomed to over 200,000 during the first two decades of publication. It was during this period that his prior futuristic works became more available and popular with American audiences.

El excelente Mr. Morris era un inglés que vivió en la época de la buena reina Victoria. Era, un hombre próspero y muy sensato; leía el Times e iba a la iglesia. Al llegar a la edad madura, se fijó en su rostro una expresión de desdén tranquilo y satisfecho por todo lo que no era como él. Era Mr. Morris una de esas personas que hacen con una inevitable regularidad todo lo que está bien, lo que es formal y racional. Llevaba siempre vestidos correctos y decentes, justo medio entre, lo elegante y lo mezquino. Contribuía regularmente a las obras caritativas de buen tono, transacción juiciosa entre la ostentación y la tacañería, y nunca dejaba de hacerse cortar los cabellos de un largo que denotara una exacta decencia. Todo cuanto era correcto y decente que poseyera un hombre de su posición, lo poseía él, y lodo lo que no era ni correcto ni decente para un hombre de su posición, no lo poseía.Entre esas posesiones correctas y decentes, el tal Mr.

Wells describes his aim as to state "as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer." He distinguishes his religious beliefs from Christianity, and warns readers that he is "particularly uncompromising" on the doctrine of the Trinity, which he blames on "the violent ultimate crystallization of Nicaea." He pleads for a "modern religion" or "renascent religion" that has "no revelation and no founder."Wells rejects any belief related to God as Nature or the Creator, confining himself to the "finite" God "of the human heart." He devotes a chapter to misconceptions about God that are due to mistaken "mental elaboration" as opposed to "heresies of speculation," and says that the God in which he believes has nothing to do with magic, providence, quietism, punishment, the threatening of children, or sexual ethics. Positively, in a chapter entitled "The Likeness of God," he states his belief that God is courage, a person, youth (i.e. forward- rather than backward-looking), and love.Wells finds in scientific atheists like Metchnikoff beliefs that are equivalent to what he regards as "the fundamental proposition of religious translated into terms of materialistic science, the proposition that damnation is really over-individuation and that salvation is escape from self into the larger being of life."

The Salvaging of Civilization by H. G. Wells has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.

Love and Mr. Lewisham by H. G. Wells has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.

H.G. Wells, the author, has been called the father of science fiction.?The Time Machine? is one of his most notable science fictions. It?s a Time Traveller?s journey into the future. He explains that there are really four limensions, three of which we call the three planes of the Space, and a fourth, Time. Also, there is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.The book narrates how the Time Traveller plans for a machine to travel through time and disappear. Comparison between the present time and future time. Like as, the air is free from gnats, the earth from weeds or fungi; everwhere were fruits and sweet and delightful flowers; brilliant butterflies fly hither and thither. The ideal of preventive medicine is attained. Diseases are stamped out. No contagious diseases. Even social triumphs too is effected. Like as, the mankind is housed in splendid shelters, gloriously clothed, and as yet are not engaged in toil. No signs of struggle, neither social nor economical.The population is also ceased to increase.No one can predict anything about the future Time.This book seems very interesting, in this way. Solves many queries raised by the various characters in the book with the Time Traveller.The author has written his best to enthrall the readers.Many future films and Television Series are made on ?The Time Machine?, which has in turn inspired to write new books on the topic of ?The Time Machine?.

The Passionate Friends by H. G. Wells has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.

Ahora que escribo aquí, sentado entre las sombras de los emparrados bajo el cielo azul de la Italia Meridional, me acuerdo, no sin alguna sorpresa, de que mi participación en las asombrosas aventuras del señor Cavor fue, al fin y al cabo, resultado de una mera casualidad. Lo mismo podía haberle sucedido a cualquier otro. Caí en esas cosas en un momento en que me consideraba libre de la más leve posibilidad de perturbaciones en mi vida. Había ido a Lympne porque me lo había figurado como el lugar del mundo en que sucedieran menos acontecimientos. «¡Aquí, de todos modos ¿me decíä, encontraré tranquilidad y podré trabajar en calma!». Y de allí ha salido este libro, tan diametral es la diferencia entre el destino y los pequeños planes de los hombres. Me parece que debo hacer mención, en estas líneas, de la suerte extremadamente mala que acababa de tener en algunos negocios. Rodeado como estoy ahora de todas las comodidades que da la fortuna, hay cierto lujo en esta confesión que hago de mi pobreza de entonces. Puedo hasta confesar que, en determinada proporción, mis desastres eran atribuibles a mis propios actos. Tal vez haya asuntos para los cuales tenga yo alguna capacidad, pero la dirección de operaciones mercantiles no figura entre ellos. En aquella época era aún joven: hoy lo soy todavía en años, pero las cosas que me han sucedido han desterrado de mi mente algo de la juventud: si en su reemplazo han dejado o no un poco de sabiduría, es cuestión más dudosa.

The Open Conspiracy presents H. G. Wells' vision for an international movement to establish control over the destinies of human life. Through a process of propaganda and a "conspiracy" unfolding in full view, Wells hopes to create a world which is politically, socially and economically unified, ultimately leading to a revolution aimed at peace, welfare and happiness - a "world commonwealth".First published in 1928 when radical movements like communism and fascism were shaking the established order, Wells pushes for a utopian world in which science is a religion, nation states do not exist any more, and population size and the distribution of food are coordinated by a global elite of businessmen and experts.The Open Conspiracy prophetically foreshadows current developments towards global, technocratic governance and data-driven decision making.

El Viajero a través del Tiempo (pues convendrá llamarle así al hablar de él) nos exponía una misteriosa cuestión. Sus ojos grises brillaban lanzando centellas, y su rostro, habitualmente pálido, se mostraba encendido y animado. El fuego ardía fulgurante y el suave resplandor de las lámparas incandescentes, en forma de lirios de plata, se prendía en las burbujas que destellaban y subían dentro de nuestras copas. Nuestros sillones, construidos según sus diseños, nos abrazaban y acariciaban en lugar de someterse a que nos sentásemos sobre ellos; y había allí esa sibarítica atmósfera de sobremesa, cuando los pensamientos vuelan gráciles, libres de las trabas de la exactitud. Y él nos la expuso de este modo, señalando los puntos con su afilado índice, mientras que nosotros, arrellanados perezosamente, admirábamos su seriedad al tratar de aquella nueva paradoja (eso la creíamos) y su fecundidad. ¿Deben ustedes seguirme con atención. Tendré que discutir una o dos ideas que están casi universalmente admitidas. Por ejemplo, la geometría que les han enseñado en el colegio está basada sobre un concepto erróneo. ¿¿No es más bien excesivo con respecto a nosotros ese comienzo? ¿dijo Filby, un personaje polemista de pelo rojo.

El desconocido llegó un día huracanado de primeros de febrero, abriéndose paso a través de un viento cortante y de una densa nevada, la última del año. El desconocido llegó a pie desde la estación del ferrocarril de Bramblehurst. Llevaba en la mano bien enguantada una pequeña maleta negra. Iba envuelto de los pies a la cabeza, el ala de su sombrero de fieltro le tapaba todo el rostro y sólo dejaba al descubierto la punta de su nariz. La nieve se había ido acumulando sobre sus hombros y sobre la pechera de su atuendo y había formado una capa blanca en la parte superior de su carga. Más muerto que vivo, entró tambaleándose en la fonda Coach and Horses y, después de soltar su maleta, gritó: «¡Un fuego, por caridad! ¡Una habitación con un fuego!». Dio unos golpes en el suelo y se sacudió la nieve junto a la barra. Después siguió a la señora Hall hasta el salón para concertar el precio. Sin más presentaciones, una rápida conformidad y un par de soberanos sobre la mesa, se alojó en la posada. La señora Hall encendió el fuego, le dejó solo y se fue a prepararle algo de comer. Que un cliente se quedara en invierno en Iping era mucha suerte y aún más si no era de ésos que regatean. Estaba dispuesta a no desaprovechar su buena fortuna. Tan pronto como el bacon estuvo casi preparado y cuando había convencido a Millie, la criada, con unas cuantas expresiones escogidas con destreza, llevó el mantel, los platos y los vasos al salón y se dispuso a poner la mesa con gran esmero. La señora Hall se sorprendió al ver que el visitante todavía seguía con el abrigo y el sombrero a pesar de que el fuego ardía con fuerza. El huésped estaba de pie, de espaldas a ella, y miraba fijamente cómo caía la nieve en el patio. Con las manos, enguantadas todavía, cogidas en la espalda, parecía estar sumido en sus propios pensamientos. La señora Hall se dio cuenta de que la nieve derretida estaba goteando en la alfombra y le dijo: ¿¿Me permite su sombrero y su abrigo para que se sequen en la cocina, señor?¿No ¿contestó éste sin volverse.