Herbert George Wells

Herbert George Wells was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games.

The Time Machine

Herbert George Wells

The book's protagonist is a Victorian English scientist and gentleman inventor living in Richmond, Surrey, identified by a narrator simply as the Time Traveller. Similarly, with but one exception (a man named Filby) none of the dinner guests present...

The War of the Worlds

Herbert George Wells

The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first serialised in 1897 by Pearson's Magazine in the UK and by Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. The novel's first appearance in hardcover was in 1898 from publisher Will...

The Time Machine

Herbert George Wells

So starts the Time Traveller’s surprising firsthand account of his adventure 800,000 years past his very own era—and the tale that released H.G. Wells’s a success profession and earned him his recognition as the daddy of technology...