H. G. Wells

"The Country of the Blind" is a short story written by H. G. Wells. It was first published in the April 1904 issue of The Strand Magazine and included in a 1911 collection of Wells's short stories, The Country of the Blind and Other Stories…

"The Poet and the Emporium" by H. G. Wells is a short essay. H. G. Wells once different, humorous social satire and ironic. "I am beginning life," he said, with a sigh. «Great Heavens! I have spent a day-a day!-in a shop. Three bedroom suit…

"Of Conversation: An Apology" by H. G. Wells is a short essay. H. G. Wells once different, humorous social satire and ironic. I must admit that in conversation I am not a brilliant success. Partly, indeed, that may be owing to the assiduity with…

"The Lord of the Dynamos" is a British short story by H.G. Wells. It was originally published in the Pall Mall Budget (6 September 1894), and then included in the collection The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents, published by Methuen & Co.…

The Story of the Last Trump is a humorous, symbolic tale with a theological theme, albeit somewhat esoteric. It was first published in 1915 and is the final chapter in a satirical literary work, titled “Boon”. Upon publication the author of the book …

"The Red Room" is a short gothic story written by H. G. Wells in 1894. It was first published in the March 1896 edition of The Idler magazine. An unnamed protagonist chooses to spend the night in an allegedly haunted room, colored bright red in …

"Euphemia's New Entertainment" by H. G. Wells is a short essay. H. G. Wells once different, humorous social satire and ironic. Euphemia has great ideas of putting people at their ease, a thousand little devices for thawing the very stiffest…

"The Cone" is a short story by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895 in Unicorn. It was intended to be «the opening chapter of a sensational novel set in the Five Towns», later abandoned. The story is set at an ironworks in Stoke-on-Trent, in Sta…

"The Star" is an 1897 apocalyptic short story by H.G. Wells. In January (about 1900, presumably), the people of Earth awaken to the news that a strange luminous object has erupted, into the Solar System, after disturbing the normal orbit of the …

"Bleak March in Epping Forest" by H. G. Wells is a short essay. H. G. Wells once different, humorous social satire and ironic. All along the selvage of Epping Forest there was excitement. Before the swallows, before the violets, long before the …

"The Shopman" by H. G. Wells is a short essay. H. G. Wells once different, humorous social satire and ironic. If I were really opulent, I would not go into a shop at all-I would have a private secretary. If I were really determined, Euphemia wou…

The Wonderful Visit is an 1895 novel by H. G. Wells. With an angel – a creature of fantasy unlike a religious angel – as protagonist and taking place in contemporary England, the book could be classified as contemporary fantasy, although the genre wa…

"The Pleasure of Quarreling" by H. G. Wells is a short essay. H. G. Wells once different, humorous social satire and ironic. Your cultivated man is apt to pity the respectable poor, on the score of their lack of small excitements, and even in th…

"Dunstone's Dear Lady" by H. G. Wells is a short essay. H. G. Wells once different, humorous social satire and ironic. The story of Dunstone is so slight, so trivial in its cardinal incidents, such a business of cheap feathers and bits of r…

"Concerning Chess" by H. G. Wells is a short essay. H. G. Wells once different, humorous social satire and ironic. The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face.…

"The Beautiful Suit" or «A Moonlight Fable» is a short story by H. G. Wells, originally published under the title «A Moonlight Fable» in the April 10, 1909, number of Collier's Weekly. Written in the manner of Hans Christian Andersen's…

H. G. Wells's short story «The Door in the Wall» was first published in 1911. The conflict between science and imagination is the major theme of the story, which was enormously popular when it first appeared. «The Door in the Wall» is considered…

"On the Choice of a Wife" by H. G. Wells is a short essay. H. G. Wells once different, humorous social satire and ironic. Wife-choosing is an unending business. This sounds immoral, but what I mean will be clearer in the context. People have liv…

"Of Cleverness: Apropos of One Crichton" by H. G. Wells is a short essay. H. G. Wells once different, humorous social satire and ironic. Crichton is an extremely clever person-abnormally, indeed almost unnaturally, so. He is not merely clever at…

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