H. G. Wells

Creator H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
Profession Novelist, Teacher, Historian, Journalist
Total Entries 10
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The War Inside H. G. Wells – The New Yorker
H. G. Wells – Wikipedia
H. G. Wells – TV Tropes
In his later life, he turned more toward what he thought society should be like; fictional Utopias and Dystopias and nonfiction books on socialist thought alike. Though Wells thought of these works as more important, it’s his early stuff that’s thought of as classic, at least in part because it is generally better written. G. K. Chesterton compared him to Esau, saying that just as the latter had sold his birthright for a mess of pottage, so Wells traded his talent for a pot of message (although he was a fine one to talk). For clarity, Wells did identify his political views as socialist, but it was a distinctly non-Marxist socialism he advocated, and hoped would prevent the violence destruction that he believed class conflict would otherwise lead to without a technologically and socially progressive international movement… ~ H. G. Wells – TV Tropes

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Doctor Moreau

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Dr. Moreau was a vivisectionist who fled upon his experiments being exposed and moved to a remote island in the Pacific Ocean to pursue his research of perfecting his Beast Folk. Alias Doctor Moreau Real […]

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Dr. Moreau was a vivisectionist who fled upon his experiments being exposed and moved to a remote island in the Pacific Ocean to pursue his research of perfecting his Beast Folk. Alias Doctor Moreau Real […]

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Edward Prendick

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Edward Prendick is a young scientist from Victorian England who survives a shipwreck of his boat, the Lady Vain, in the southern Pacific Ocean. A passing ship called Ipecacuanha takes him aboard and a man […]

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Edward Prendick is a young scientist from Victorian England who survives a shipwreck of his boat, the Lady Vain, in the southern Pacific Ocean. A passing ship called Ipecacuanha takes him aboard and a man […]

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George McWhirther Fotheringay

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In an English public house, George McWhirter Fotheringay vigorously asserts the impossibility of miracles during an argument. By way of demonstration, Fotheringay commands an oil lamp to flame upside down and it does so, to […]

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In an English public house, George McWhirter Fotheringay vigorously asserts the impossibility of miracles during an argument. By way of demonstration, Fotheringay commands an oil lamp to flame upside down and it does so, to […]

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Invisible Man (H.G. Wells)

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The Invisible Man was a man called Griffin, an albino and scientist who had devoted himself to discovering the secret of invisibility by researching optic density. He managed to invent a way to make the […]

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The Invisible Man was a man called Griffin, an albino and scientist who had devoted himself to discovering the secret of invisibility by researching optic density. He managed to invent a way to make the […]

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Martian (H. G. Wells)

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The War of the Worlds is one of the earliest stories to detail a conflict between humankind and an extraterrestrial race. The novel is the first-person narrative of an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and his […]

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The War of the Worlds is one of the earliest stories to detail a conflict between humankind and an extraterrestrial race. The novel is the first-person narrative of an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and his […]

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Martian Flying Machine (H. G. Wells)

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The War of the Worlds is one of the earliest stories to detail a conflict between humankind and an extraterrestrial race. The novel is the first-person narrative of an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and his […]

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The War of the Worlds is one of the earliest stories to detail a conflict between humankind and an extraterrestrial race. The novel is the first-person narrative of an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and his […]

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Martian Tripod (H. G. Wells)

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The War of the Worlds is one of the earliest stories to detail a conflict between humankind and an extraterrestrial race. The novel is the first-person narrative of an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and his […]

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The War of the Worlds is one of the earliest stories to detail a conflict between humankind and an extraterrestrial race. The novel is the first-person narrative of an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and his […]

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Moses Nebogipfel

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Dr. Moses Nebogipfel takes up residence in a house neglected after the deaths of its former inhabitants. The simple rural folk become apprehensive about Nebogipfel’s activities in the house and suspect him of witchcraft. Ultimately […]

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Dr. Moses Nebogipfel takes up residence in a house neglected after the deaths of its former inhabitants. The simple rural folk become apprehensive about Nebogipfel’s activities in the house and suspect him of witchcraft. Ultimately […]

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Sea Lady

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The main character of H. G. Wells’ novel The Sea Lady is a mermaid who came to the surface world and briefly lived among humans between the years 1898 and 1899, pretending to be an […]

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The main character of H. G. Wells’ novel The Sea Lady is a mermaid who came to the surface world and briefly lived among humans between the years 1898 and 1899, pretending to be an […]

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Time Traveler (H. G. Wells)

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In H. G. Wells’ 1895 science fiction novella The Time Machine, the protagonist is a Victorian English scientist and gentleman inventor living in Richmond, Surrey, identified by a narrator simply as the Time Traveller. Similarly, with […]

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In H. G. Wells’ 1895 science fiction novella The Time Machine, the protagonist is a Victorian English scientist and gentleman inventor living in Richmond, Surrey, identified by a narrator simply as the Time Traveller. Similarly, with […]