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"The Theory of Quotation" by H. G. Wells is a short essay. H. G. Wells once different, humorous social satire and ironic.

"House-Hunting as an Outdoor Amusement" by H. G. Wells is a short essay. H. G. Wells once different, humorous social satire and ironic.

"Incidental Thoughts on a Bald Head" by H. G. Wells is a short essay. H. G. Wells once different, humorous social satire and ironic.

"For Freedom of Spelling: The Discovery of an Art" by H. G. Wells is a short essay. H. G. Wells once different, humorous social satire and ironic. It is curious that people do not grumble more at having to spell correctly.

"The Book of Essays Dedicatory" by H. G. Wells is a short essay. H. G. Wells once different, humorous social satire and ironic. I have been bothered about this book this three months. I have written scarcely anything since Llewellyn asked me for it, for when he asked me I had really nothing on hand. I had just published every line I had ever written, at my own expense, with Prigsbys.

"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 Staffordshire. An artist is there to depict the industrial landscape; the manager of the ironworks discovers his affair with his wife, and takes him on a tour of the factory, where there are dangerous features.

"Through a Microscope: Some Moral Reflections" by H. G. Wells is a short essay. H. G. Wells once different, humorous social satire and ironic. This dabbler person has recently disposed of his camera and obtained a microscope-a short, complacent-looking implement it is, of brass-and he goes about everywhere now with little glass bottles in his pocket, ready to jump upon any stray polly-woggle he may find, and hale it home and pry into its affairs.

"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 which my aunt suppressed my early essays in the art: "Children," she said, "should be seen but not heard," and incontinently rapped my knuckles.

"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 planet Neptune. The object is a celestial body whose luminosity is distinguishable on the sky about the constellation of Leo.

"The Veteran Cricketer" by H. G. Wells is a short essay. H. G. Wells once different, humorous social satire and ironic. My old cricketer was seized, he says, some score of years ago now, by sciatica, clutched indeed about the loins thereby, and forcibly withdrawn from the practice of the art; since when a certain predisposition to a corpulent habit has lacked its natural check of exercise, and a broadness almost Dutch has won upon him.

"The Extinction of Man" by H. G. Wells is a short essay. H. G. Wells once different, humorous social satire and ironic. It is part of the excessive egotism of the human animal that the bare idea of its extinction seems incredible to it. "A world without us!" it says, as a heady young Cephalaspis might have said it in the old Silurian sea.

"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 lived-innumerable people-exhausted experience, and yet other people keep on coming to hand, none the wiser, none the better.

"The Pose Novel" by H. G. Wells is a short essay. H. G. Wells once different, humorous social satire and ironic. I watched the little spurts of flame jet out from between the writhing pages of my manuscript, watched the sheets coil up in their fiery anguish and start one from another.

"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 fairy tales, the story features but two characters: an unnamed "little man", and his mother. The mother has made "a beautiful suit of clothes" for the man, who takes inordinate delight in this possession.

Was wäre, wenn du eine Reise durch die Zeit machen könntest? Wenn du die Zukunft der Menschheit entdecken könntest? Wenn du Zeuge von unglaublichen Wundern und schrecklichen Gefahren werden könntest? Das ist die Geschichte von Die Zeitmaschine, dem Hörbuch nach dem berühmten Roman von H. G. Wells, gelesen von Benjamin Werner. Begleite den namenlosen Zeitreisenden, der mit seiner genialen Erfindung in das Jahr 802.701 reist, wo er auf die Eloi und die Morlocks trifft, zwei völlig unterschiedliche Arten von Menschen, die das Ergebnis einer langen Evolution sind.

London, the late 19th century, the pinnacle of civilization’s achievements. Little did the people know that a vastly technologically superior race of Martians was about to descend upon earth to wreak havoc on mankind. H.G. Wells revolutionized the science fiction genre—menacing aliens, a population in total panic and disarray, and fascinating yet deadly weaponry. How will the pitiable humans survive this extraterrestrial calamity? Find out in H.G. Wells’ classic novel The War of the Worlds.

Es gelingt Thomas Marvel, dem Unsichtbaren unter beträchtlichen Mühen zu entkommen. Dieser dringt daraufhin in ein Landhaus ein und erlebt dort auf der Suche nach einem neuen Gehilfen eine große Überraschung...

Im viktorianischen England: Die feine Dinner-Gesellschaft staunt nicht schlecht, als der junge Wissenschaftler seinen Gästen eröffnet, dass seiner Meinung nach, die Zeit lediglich die vierte Dimension darstellt und er selbst zudem das Modell einer Maschine konstruiert habe, mit dem es zukünftig möglich sein wird, sich vor und zurück durch die Zeit zu bewegen.

Am Amazonas 1899: Kapitän Guerilleau erhält den Befehl mit dem Kanonenboot Benjamin Constant den Fluss hinauf zu fahren, um den Eingeborenen hilfreich zur Seite zu stehen. Dort ist angeblich eine Ameisen-Invasion ausgebrochen. Zunächst glaubt er, dass es sich lediglich um einen Scherz handelt. Doch schon bald sieht er sich und seine Mannschaft tödlichen Gefahren gegenüber..

Die Gruselkabinett Hörspiel Box 30 beinhaltet die Geschichten: "Ewige Jungend", "20,000 Meilen unter dem Meer (komplett)", "Die Insel des Dr.