Stong-willed, reckless and fiercely independent, Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to be a 'Person', to work, love and, above all, to live. Walking away from her stifling father and the social conventions of her time, she leaves drab suburbia for Edwardian London and encounters an unknown world of suffragettes, Fabians and free love. But it is only when she meets the charismatic Capes that she truly confronts the meaning of her new found freedom. 
Ann Veronica caused a sensation, damned in the press and preached against from the pulpits when it was first published in 1909 due to Wells' groundbreaking treatment of female sexuality.

Ann Veronica

War of the Worlds er en science fiction-roman udgivet i 1898 af H. G. Wells, der beskriver, hvordan England invaderes af rumvæsener fra Mars. Det er en af de bedst kendte beskrivelser af en fremmed invasion af Jorden. Den danske oversættelse har titlen "Klodernes kamp".

Bogen og dens historie har givet grobund til en lang række nye bøger, film og endda som et yderst realistisk radiospil af Orson Welles, udsendt i 1938; radiospillets form af direkte nyhedsreportage fik nogle lyttere til at gå i panik.

Klodernes Kamp

THE WORLD SET FREE was written in 1913 and published early in 1914, and it is the latest of a series of three fantasias of possibility, stories which all turn on the possible developments in the future of some contemporary force or group of forces. The World Set Free was written under the immediate shadow of the Great War. Every intelligent person in the world felt that disaster was impending and knew no way of averting it, but few of us realised in the earlier half of 1914 how near the crash was to us. The reader will be amused to find that here it is put off until the year 1956. He may naturally want to know the reason for what will seem now a quite extraordinary delay. As a prophet, the author must confess he has always been inclined to be rather a slow prophet. The war aeroplane in the world of reality, for example, beat the forecast in Anticipations by about twenty years or so. I suppose a desire not to shock the sceptical reader's sense of use and wont and perhaps a less creditable disposition to hedge, have something to do with this dating forward of one's main events, but in the particular case of The World Set Free there was, I think, another motive in holding the Great War back, and that was to allow the chemist to get well forward with his discovery of the release of atomic energy.

The World Set Free

A profound and witty Voltairian dialogue between a twentieth-century Noah and an Old Testament Deity, planning a new Ark in which the best of mankind may be rescued from the new flood of war and horror.

All Aboard for Ararat

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 Welcome to Utopia.

 When Mr. Barnstaple, an Earthling, is accidentally transported to Utopia with a group of others, he begins an adventure that will change how he views the world forever.

 Utopia has no government. Utopia has no religion. People are governed only by their own conscience and desires, and Barnstaple is drawn into what he sees as a perfect society. But when a disease brought by the Earthlings threatens the existence of the Utopians, Barnstaple must make a choice: take over Utopia, or betray his own people to save a world he has grown to admire.

Men Like Gods

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. It was ten years ago, and in those days he was assistant master in the Whortley Proprietary School, Whortley, Sussex, and his wages were forty pounds a year, out of which he had to afford fifteen shillings a week during term time to lodge with Mrs. Munday, at the little shop in the West Street. He was called "Mr." to distinguish him from the bigger boys, whose duty it was to learn, and it was a matter of stringent regulation that he should be addressed as "Sir."

Love and Mr. Lewisham

The Time Machine 

The War of the Worlds 

The Island of Doctor Moreau

The Invisible Man

"But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be 

inhabited? .

H. G. Wells Collection

"I've had a most amazing time...."

So begins the Time Traveller's astonishing firsthand account of his journey 800, 000 years beyond his own era-and the story that launched H. G. Wells's successful career and earned him his reputation as the father of science fiction. With a speculative leap that still fires the imagination, Wells sends his brave explorer to face a future burdened with our greatest hopes...and our darkest fears. A pull of the Time Machine's lever propels him to the age of a slowly dying Earth. There he discovers two bizarre races-the ethereal Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks-who not only symbolize the duality of human nature, but offer a terrifying portrait of the men of tomorrow as well. Published in 1895, this masterpiece of invention captivated readers on the threshold of a new century. Thanks to Wells's expert storytelling and provocative insight, The Time Machine will continue to enthrall readers for generations to come.

The Time Machine

Des aliens venus de Mars envahissent l'Angleterre. À bord d'énormes machines à trois pieds dotés de rayons ardents, ils traversent le pays, pulvérisent sur leur passage les bâtiments, carbonisent les humains, se nourrissent de leur chair, et répandent un gaz toxique dans les rues. La fin de la civilisation humaine a sonné. Le début d'une guerre sanglante et infernale est engagée.

« La Guerre des mondes » est le chef-d'oeuvre fondateur de la science-fiction moderne. Ce livre incontournable a fait l'objet de nombreuses adaptations : en 2005 au cinéma par Steven Spielberg avec en tête d'affiche Tom Cruise, et à la radio par le légendaire Orson Welles, en 1938, dans une diffusion restée célèbre pour avoir fait sortir les américains de chez-eux, paniqués, afin d'observer l'invasion d'aliens dans le ciel. « La Guerre des mondes » s'élève ainsi au rang des romans les plus influents de tous les temps, aux côtés de ceux de Frank Herbert (« Dune »)  et de George Orwell (« 1984 »).



H. G. Wells (1866-1946) est un écrivain anglais, connu principalement pour ses oeuvres de science-fiction. Souvent décrit comme un précurseur, H. G. Wells influencera bon nombre d'ouvrages à venir : ses romans présentent de nombreuses innovations technologiques telles que les voyages spatiaux, la bombe atomique et Internet. Nominé à quatre reprises pour le prix Nobel de littérature, Wells a exploré un large éventail de thèmes, occupant l'une des places principales du canon de la littérature britannique. On compte, parmi ses meilleurs ouvrages, le roman de voyage dans le temps « La Machine à explorer le temps », le roman d'aventure de science-fiction « L'île du Docteur Moreau », le roman de lutte entre l'humanité et les extraterrestres « La Guerre des mondes », et plus de soixante-dix histoires courtes.

Ann Veronica

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