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by H. G. Wells [1898] But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be inhabited?
The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells [1898] I The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.
ON February the First 1887, the Lady Vain was lost by collision with a derelict when about the latitude 1 degree S. and longitude 107 degrees W. On January the Fifth, 1888--that is eleven months a...
CHAPTER I THE STRANGE MAN'S ARRIVAL The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bram...
By H. G. Wells "I can assure you," said I, "that it will take a very tangible ghost to frighten me."
E-text prepared by Paul Murray, Charles Bidwell, and Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND And Other Stories H. G. WELLS [Illustration: He stopped, and the...
APPENDIX-- LITTLE WARS AND KRIEGSPIEL I OF THE LEGENDARY PAST "LITTLE WARS" is the game of kings--for players in an inferior social position.
CHAPTER I. INSOMNIA One afternoon, at low water, Mr. Isbister, a young artist lodging at Boscastle, walked from that place to the picturesque cove of Pentargen, desiring to examine the caves there.
H.G. WELLS We Are All Things That Make And Pass, Striving Upon A Hidden Mission, Out To The Open Sea.
This etext was created by Judith Boss, Omaha, Nebraska.
by H.G Wells BOOK THE FIRST THE DAYS BEFORE TONO-BUNGAY WAS INVENTED CHAPTER THE FIRST OF BLADESOVER HOUSE, AND MY MOTHER; AND THE CONSTITUTION OF SOCIETY I Most people in this world s...
CHAPTER I. OF PROGRESS AND THE SMALLWAYS FAMILY 1 "This here Progress," said Mr. Tom Smallways, "it keeps on."
In truth the mastery of flying was the work of thousands of men--this man a suggestion and that an experiment, until at last only one vigorous intellectual effort was needed to finish the work.
Chapter 1 Mr. Bedford Meets Mr. Cavor at Lympne As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine-leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of ast...
I. In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who ...
TWENTIETH CENTURY 279 ANTICIPATIONS I LOCOMOTION IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY It is proposed in this book to present in as orderly an arrangement as the necessaril...
BOOK THE FIRST: THE MAKING OF A MAN CHAPTER THE FIRST ~~ CONCERNING A BOOK THAT WAS NEVER WRITTEN 1 Since I came to this place I have been very restless, wasting my energies in the futile beg...
BY H. G. WELLS A NOTE TO THE READER This book is in all probability the last of a series of writings, of which--disregarding certain earlier disconnected essays--my Anticipations was the beginn...
THE ENVOY PREFACE This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer.
"The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own thoughts and her own knowledge."
CHAPTER I THE LITTLE SHOP AT NEW ROMNEY §1 Until he was nearly arrived at adolescence it did not become clear to Kipps how it was that he was under the care of an aunt and uncle instead of havi...
Development-- The Development of the Frog The Development of the Fowl The Development of the Rabbit The Theory of Evolution Questions on Embryology Miscellaneous Questions
BY H.G. WELLS COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY H.G. WELLS CONTENTS BOOK I MATCHING'S EASY AT EASE I MR. DIRECK VISITS MR. BRITLING II MR. BRITLING CONTINUES HIS EXPOSITION III THE ENTERTAINMENT ...
But Very Little Of War Games Section I THE TOYS TO HAVE The jolliest indoor games for boys and girls demand a floor, and the home that has no floor upon which games may be played falls so far...
by H. G. Wells Chapter the First Beginnings, and the Bazaar I "Hole!"
produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) THE PLATTNER STORY AND OTHERS BY THE SAME AUTHOR THE STOLEN BACILLUS THE WONDERFUL VISIT THE WHEE...
THE PASSING OF THE EFFIGY 1 One of the minor peculiarities of this unprecedented war is the Tour of the Front.
THE STOLEN BACILLUS "This again," said the Bacteriologist, slipping a glass slide under the microscope, "is a preparation of the celebrated Bacillus of cholera--the cholera germ."
by H. G. WELLS [Illustration] New York B. W. Huebsch 1913 Copyright, 1913, By B. W. Huebsch Printed in U. S. A. THE DISCOVERY OF THE FUTURE[1] BY H. G. WELLS [1] A discourse deli...
file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of ...
CHAPTER THE FIRST A DAY WITH THE POPES § 1 An extremely pretty girl occupied a second-class compartment in one of those trains which percolate through the rural tranquillities of middle England...
THE COMING OF THE SEA LADY I Such previous landings of mermaids as have left a record, have all a flavour of doubt.
By H. G. Wells PREFACE It may save misunderstanding if a word or so be said here of the aim and scope of this book.
CHAPTER THE FIRST THE CONSULTATION Section 1 The maid was a young woman of great natural calmness; she was accustomed to let in visitors who had this air of being annoyed and finding one umbrell...
THOUGHTS ON CHEAPNESS AND MY AUNT CHARLOTTE The world mends.
THE WHEELS OF CHANCE; A BICYCLING IDYLL By H.G. Wells 1896 I. THE PRINCIPAL CHARACTER IN THE STORY If you (presuming you are of the sex that does such things)--if you had gone into the Drap...
THE PRELUDE ON FEAR AND ARISTOCRACY 1 The story of William Porphyry Benham is the story of a man who was led into adventure by an idea.
Prophecy may vary between being an intellectual amusement and a serious occupation; serious not only in its intentions, but in its consequences.
CHAPTER THE FIRST INTRODUCES LADY HARMAN §1 The motor-car entered a little white gate, came to a porch under a thick wig of jasmine, and stopped.
by H. G. Wells Author of the "Time Machine" London Macmillan and Co.
PROLOGUE THE MAN WHO WROTE IN THE TOWER I SAW a gray-haired man, a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.
CHAPTER I THE PROPHETIC HABIT OF MIND (_At a writing-desk in Sandgate_) I The Question "Are you a Polygamist?"
AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD THE COMING OF BLÉRIOT (_July, 1909_.) The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymna...
CHAPTER THE FIRST - THE DREAM (1) IT was a scene of bitter disputation.
CHAPTER THE FIRST MR. STRATTON TO HIS SON § 1 I want very much to set down my thoughts and my experiences of life.
The opening chapter does not concern itself with Love--indeed that antagonist does not certainly appear until the third--and Mr. Lewisham is seen at his studies.
Mr. WELLS has also written the following novels: LOVE AND MR. LEWISHAM KIPPS MR. POLLY THE WHEELS OF CHANCE THE NEW MACHIAVELLI ANN VERONICA TONO BUNGAY MARRIAGE BEALBY THE PASSIONATE FRIENDS THE ...
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