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A Modern Utopia
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H.G. Wells' A Modern Utopia is a novel that attempts to explore the possibilities of a utopia in a modern age, while recognizing the complexities of contemporary conditions. The work employs an intricate web of philosophical and ideological musings, which are woven together to examine the nature of society and its potential for transformation.
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The New Machiavelli
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The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a seminal work of political philosophy, drawing upon the theories of its namesake and exploring the relationship between power and morality. Written at the dawn of the 20th century, it serves as an exploration of how one can reconcile self-interest with public good in a modern context.
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The War of the Worlds
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When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the aliens traverse the country in huge three-legged machines, incinerating all in their path with a heat ray and spreading noxious toxic gases, the people of the Earth must come to terms with the prospect of the end of human civilization and the beginning of Martian rule.Inspiring films, radio dramas, comic-book adaptations, television series and sequels,The War of the Worlds is a prototypical work of science fiction which has influenced every alien story that has come since, and is unsurpassed in its ability to thrill, well over a century since it was first published.
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The War of the Worlds
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"The War of the Worlds" details 12 days in which invaders from Mars attack the planet Earth, captured popular imagination with its fast-paced narrative and images of Martians and interplanetary travel. The humans in "The War of the Worlds" initially treat the invasion with complacency but soon are provoked into a defensive state of war.H. G. Wells"s science fiction masterpiece "The War of the Worlds" was originally published in Pierson"s magazine in 1897 and was issued as a novel the following year. A century later, it has never been out of print. The story has become an integral part of our culture, frequently retold in graphic novels and films. In 1938, it became part of one of the greatest and most horrifying media events of all times. "The Mercury Theatre on the Air", headed by twenty-three-year-old Orson Welles, broadcast over the radio an adaptation of the book that was so realistic that it caused widespread public panic, mob violence, and looting. Until the night of that broadcast, few people realised the power of broadcast media to make whole populations feel powerless when faced with breaking events.
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The War In The Air
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"The War In The Air", war novel written in 1907 by H. G. Wells, is often referenced because in it Wells so accurately anticipated lots of details of aerial warfare – dogfights, bombing raids, even what the earth looks like from up in the air – none of which existed or were possible when he wrote the book and when the most primitive flying machines had only just been invented.In other words, it is a masterpiece of imaginative prophecy and another one of Wells’s books, in that it’s a real mish-mash of subject matter and tone.Thus he chooses to recount the outbreak of this epic world war (sometime around 1914, i.e. in his then-future) and the triumph of the mighty German airfleet – via the adventures of the comic figure of Bert Smallways, keeper of a failed second-hand bicycle shop in suburban Kent. Bathos.
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The Wonderful Visit
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"The Wonderful Visit" is a wonderful work of fiction by H.G. Wells, the author of "The Time Machine." It is the tale of a fallen angel who simply cannot adapt to society in a small English village. The book was a satirical treatment of Victorian England, An other-worldly creature visits a small English village, and H. G. Wells uses humour and satire to convey some of the imperfections of Victorian society, as ‘angel’ and humans view each other with equal incomprehension. The book is considered contemporary fantasy; but like most things Wellsian, that was a genre before his time.
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H. G. Wells – The Complete Collection
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48 Complete Works of H.G. WellsScience FictionsAnticipationsIn the Days of the CometTales of Space and TimeThe Country of the BlindThe Crystal EggThe Door in the Wall and Other StoriesThe First Men In The MoonThe Invisible ManThe Island of Doctor MoreauThe Sea LadyThe Sleeper AwakesThe Time MachineTwelve Stories and a DreamWar and the FutureWar of the WorldsWhen the Sleeper WakesOther WorksWhat is ComingTono BungayThe Wheels of ChanceThe Wife of Sir Isaac HarmanThe Wonderful VisitThe Stolen Bacillus and Other IncidentsThe War in the AirThe Secret Places of The HeartA Short History of the WorldAn Englishman Looks at the WorldAnn VeronicaBoon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild AssesCertain Personal MattersConversations with an UncleFirst and Last ThingsFloor GamesThe History of Mr PollyThe Outline of HistoryThe Passionate FriendsThe Red RoomThe Research MagnificentThe Salvaging Of CivilisationThe New MachiavelliLove and Mr. LewishamMankind in the MakingMarriageMr. Britling Sees It ThroughNew Worlds For OldIn The Fourth Year - Anticipations of a World PeaceKippsLittle WarsA Modern Utopia
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
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"The Island of Dr. Moreau", science fiction novel by H.G. Wells, published in 1896. The classic work focuses on a mad scientist’s experiments involving vivisection to address such issues as evolution and ethics.This short novel employs an old device, a bogus introduction to explain how the story that follows was found in the narrator’s papers at his death. The story itself exploits the well-known theme of the shipwrecked castaway, made famous by Daniel Defoe’s "Robinson Crusoe" (1719). These are familiar materials, but H. G. Wells updates them by putting them in the context of the controversy over evolution that raged in his day. He presents Dr. Moreau as a cruel, white-haired Old Testament God.Wells described his masterpiece as “an exercise in youthful blasphemy,” referring to Moreau’s attempts to reshape God’s creatures as humans. In this respect the novel compares to Mary Shelley’s tale of Victor Frankenstein. Both novels are cautionary in warning of the consequences likely to follow when humans play God. The Greek understanding of hubris and Christian warnings against pride should have alerted Moreau to the danger of his game.
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Tono Bungay
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Tono-Bungay is narrated by George Ponderevo, who is persuaded to help develop the business of selling Tono-Bungay, a patent medicine created by his ambitious uncle Edward. George devotes seven years to organising the production and manufacture of a product which he believes to be "a damned swindle". He then quits day-to-day involvement with the enterprise in favour of aeronautics. But he remains associated with his uncle Edward, who becomes a financier of the first order and is on the verge of achieving social as well as economic dominance when his business empire collapses. George tries to rescue his uncle's failing finances by stealing quantities of a radioactive compound called "quap" from an island off the coast of West Africa, but the expedition is unsuccessful. His nephew engineers his uncle's escape from England in an experimental aircraft he has built, but the ruined entrepreneur turned financier catches pneumonia on the flight and dies in a French village near Bordeaux, despite George's efforts to save him. The novel ends with George finding a new occupation: designing destroyers for the highest bidder.
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The Moth
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Probably you have heard of Hapley—not W. T. Hapley, the son, but the celebrated Hapley, the Hapley of Periplaneta Hapliia, Hapley the entomologist. If so you know at least of the great feud between Hapley and Professor Pawkins, though certain of its consequences may be new to you. For those who have not, a word or two of explanation is necessary, which the idle reader may go over with a glancing eye, if his indolence so incline him.
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