| 单词 | H. G. Wells |
| 例句 | Letter writers explained that they recognized the H. G. Wells story and Orson Welles’s voice as Professor Pierson. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Horrified, he describes the creature the way H. G. Wells did in his novel—the leathery skin, the tentacles, the quivering mouth. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z These opening lines of H. G. Wells’ 1897 science fiction classic The War of the Worlds maintain their haunting power to this day.* Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z H. G. Wells’s literary agent told the press that he never authorized changes to the original story that could cause such alarm. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Towering behind one building was a gigantic three- story-high ribbed-metal pipe, like a caterpillar loosed from the mind of H. G. Wells. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The reaction to these later broadcasts suggests there was more to the Mercury’s success: the H. G. Wells story itself. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z H. G. Wells in The Time Machine explored these possibilities as have countless other writers of science fiction. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The decision made, the men contacted H. G. Wells’s legal representative in New York and bought the rights to adapt the novel into a radio play. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Following H. G. Wells’s example, Koch planned to let the invaders wipe out real places. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z H. G. Wells died six years later in London, a few weeks before his eightieth birthday. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z They knew that one reason for the success of the original War of the Worlds novel was H. G. Wells’s use of genuine names. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z The Martians of H. G. Wells and Orson Welles, preoccupied with the suppression of Bournemouth and Jersey City, never noticed until too late that their immunological defenses were unavailing against the microbes of Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, though it is a work of science fiction, would be turned down because the word war appeared in its title. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z H. G. Wells was visiting the United States on a speaking tour to encourage American support for Britain in the war against Germany. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z At forty minutes past the hour, the Mercury Theatre’s Dan Seymour announces to the audience that they are listening to a presentation of H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds on CBS Radio. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z But, like the Invisible Man in H. G. Wells, I discovered that my gift had its price, which took the form of, in my case as in his, a sort of mental darkness. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Before becoming a fiction writer, H. G. Wells had taught science and published two biology textbooks. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z H. G. Wells, the novelist, was no stranger to eugenics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The H. G. Wells story featured an astronomer, and this gave Koch a chance to include one, too. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Power, a member of the League of Nations Society, agreed with her friend H. G. Wells that the organization might fulfill what he called “that great idea of World Peace and a unified mankind.” The Power Women of Mecklenburgh Square 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z ‘WAR OF THE WORLDS’ “Fake news” isn’t new: In 1939, Orson Welles co-opted the form of the radio news bulletin for a panic-sowing adaptation of H. G. Wells’s novel about an alien invasion. The New Season of Classical Music: A ‘Fake News’ Opera and Sound Quilts 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Is your title, “Are We Not Men?,” a reference to H. G. Wells’s “The Island of Dr. Moreau”? Shorthand for the perils of genetic manipulation? This Week in Fiction: T. Coraghessan Boyle on the Perils of Genetic Manipulation 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z H. G. Wells, he reminds us, envisioned “silicon-aluminum men” dwelling in an atmosphere of gaseous sulfur on the shores of a liquid iron sea. Why We Should Never Expect to Discover Sentient Ice Cubes 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Ott, 37, was born in Germany, and when he talks, the cadence of his voice makes him sound ever so slightly like a mad scientist in an H. G. Wells novel. The Sorcerer of Shaken and Stirred 2011-03-16T05:31:02Z It’s typical of Burroughs that there is no attempt to imagine a rocket ship or a time machine, as in Jules Verne, say, or H. G. Wells. ?John Carter,? Based on ?Princess of Mars? 2012-03-04T23:25:48Z H. G. Wells, at a lunch, “sat looking like a crushed rabbit.” Books of The Times: ‘P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters’ 2013-01-30T21:01:45Z There’s a fascinating lineup of authors banned by the Nazis: Ernest Hemingway, Jack London, H. G. Wells and — no surprise here — Jews and Winston Churchill. 'When Books Went to War’ by Molly Guptill Manning 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Your latest biography is about H. G. Wells’s early life and career. Claire Tomalin’s Favorite Fictional Heroine? It ‘Must Be Natasha’ in ‘War and Peace’ 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Welles’s CBS show “The Mercury Theater on the Air” presented an adaptation of the H. G. Wells novel “The War of the Worlds” for its Halloween episode on Sunday, Oct. Bill Herz, Last of ‘War of the Worlds’ Broadcast Crew, Dies at 99 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z Alien invasion, of course, has been an enduring pop culture genre at least since 1898, when H. G. Wells published “The War of the Worlds.” Television: Kindly Keep Your Mitts Off My Planet 2011-06-03T20:59:53Z A six-part suite of Arthur Bliss’s music — written in 1934-35 for the film “Things to Come,” based on an H. G. Wells novel — was most effective in its “Pestilence” section. American Symphony Orchestra’s ‘This England’ at Carnegie Hall 2014-02-03T21:17:17Z A portion of “Time After Time,” kicking off with a two-hour premiere Sunday at 9 p.m., feeds this idea in an expository scene that takes place inside the elegant drawing room of H. G. Wells. Opiate for the Masses: “Making History” and “Time After Time” add to this season’s TV travel addiction 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z H. G. Wells certainly belongs in the pantheon of great science fiction writers. Science Fiction, ‘The Decameron’ and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z Crammed into a smallish, backwater meeting room at Comic-Con International, they watched a PowerPoint video that mingled “Star Wars” imagery with the kind of fantasies associated with H. G. Wells or Georges Méliès. Comic-Con 2015: 'Star Wars,' as Told by Steampunk Fans 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Not since Henry James assaulted H. G. Wells have we witnessed such prolonged antagonism against a genre of fiction. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 8, Episode 3: Cut to Black 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z His “Time Machine” character, an inventor, was known as H. George Wells, for H. G. Wells, the British author of the classic time-travel novel on which the film was based. Rod Taylor, Star of ‘The Birds’ and ‘The Time Machine,’ Dies at 84 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z In the decades before the First World War, “invasion stories“ such as H. G. Wells’s “The War of the Worlds” populated the best-seller lists in Britain and the United States. A Science-Fiction Classic Still Smolders 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z As a kid, I loved nonfiction about dinosaurs and space, and fiction about time travel: H. G. Wells, Ray Bradbury and Madeleine L’Engle. Jess Walter Doesn’t Have a Lot of Patience for Memoirs 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z Another compares H. G. Wells to someone who has invented chess, then accuses Wells’s American successors of merely “applying the rules only with smaller or larger variations.” The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z Before Maynard’s visit each spring, the professor assigns eleven chapters of “At Home in the World,” alongside a portion of H. G. Wells’s autobiography that considers his extramarital affair with a younger university student. Joyce Maynard’s Second Chances 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z “H. G. Wells, in an article entitled ‘What Everyone Should Read' appearing in the American Magazine, has a kind word for us. 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: June 2023 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z In place of the chivalrous view of warfare, great scholars from German philosopher Immanuel Kant to English author H. G. Wells urged a federation of all nations. "Globalist" is an epithet now — yet some of history's greatest thinkers supported world government 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z You are reading about this confluence of old and new in Scientific American, but you might as well be holding a novel by H. G. Wells or Jules Verne. Quantum Steampunk: 19th-Century Science Meets Technology of Today 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z As a scientist, he was a popularizer who often drew comparisons with H. G. Wells. Isaac Asimov: centenary of the great explainer 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, from the wire rack at the Greyhound bus station, he bought science-fiction novels by H. G. Wells, Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, and others. How William Gibson Keeps His Science Fiction Real 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Levy shows how H. G. Wells’s 1903 story ‘The Land Ironclads’ inspired Winston Churchill to promote the development of the military tank in 1915. From sci-fi reality to sound, jet stream to light speed: Books in brief 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Barbara Kiser’s pick of the top five science books to read this week includes how H. G. Wells straddled the border between science and literature, Disney’s pioneering women and an oncologist’s memoir. Daily briefing: Triple-therapy drug shows dramatic effect on cystic fibrosis 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z H. G. Wells was, asserts scholar Sarah Cole, a pioneer adept at “rescaling the cosmos and humanity’s place in it”. H. G. Wells, Disney’s pioneering women and an oncologist’s memoir: Books in brief 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z At various points in her life, Gellhorn was close to H. G. Wells, Leonard Bernstein, and Lady Diana Cooper, a London society beauty of the twenties. A Memorial for the Remarkable Martha Gellhorn 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Verne made detailed calculations of its angle and velocity, subsequently mocked by Arthur C. Clarke in his foreword to a 1993 edition of H. G. Wells’s 1901 The First Men in the Moon. Moon on the mind: two millennia of lunar literature 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z H. G. Wells published “The First Men in the Moon” in 1901. The Race to Develop the Moon 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Millennia later, ‘death rays’ — concentrated light or electricity — became a science-fiction trope, from H. G. Wells’s 1898 The War of the Worlds to the Star Wars franchise. Dreaming of death rays: the search for laser weapons 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Along with miniature masterworks by the likes of Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, H. G. Wells and Ambrose Bierce are unexpected gems. Books in brief : Nature : Nature Research 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z In 1895, in “The Time Machine,” H. G. Wells introduced the remarkably handy device of travelling through time by way of a clock. A Golden Age for Dystopian Fiction 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z A well-publicized open letter to president Woodrow Wilson, signed by nine prominent British writers, including H. G. Wells, praised Sanger and her work. From Margaret Sanger to Mike Pence: A century of progress — and backsliding — for Planned Parenthood and the right to choose 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z It is natural to look at genetic engineering and think of H. G. Wells’s Dr. Moreau, creating an island of miserable and dangerous freaks. Clean Tech Rises Again, Retooling Nature for Industrial Use 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z For O’Hagan, “Bowie was in some ways the H. G. Wells of the jukebox.” Life on Mars: 'The War of the Worlds' and H.G. Wells at 150 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z ABC’s “Time After Time” is billed as “a fantastical cat-and-mouse adventure through time when famed science fiction writer H. G. Wells is transported to modern-day Manhattan in pursuit of Jack the Ripper.” Reviewing the ABC Upfront: Retro Shows and Shonda Rhimes 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z A century ago, H. G. Wells, the English titan of science fiction, invented a tabletop game called Little Wars with a friend, Jerome K. Jerome. When Dungeons & Dragons Set Off a ‘Moral Panic’ 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z Gear up for some big birthdays, as anniversaries roll around for Star Trek, H. G. Wells and the US National Park Service. Listings: Science in culture 2016 : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z The famous writer H. G. Wells published his first novel, The Time Machine, in 1895, just a few years before Queen Victoria's six-decade reign over the U.K. ended. Can Time Travelers Reach the Past through Wormholes? 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z But, to quote H. G. Wells, “History is a race between education and catastrophe.” Avoid major disasters by welcoming minor change 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z A well-publicized open letter to President Woodrow Wilson, signed by nine prominent British writers, including H. G. Wells, praised Sanger and her work. Now Louie Gohmert and Fox News will mansplain Planned Parenthood: The new lie right-wing men can’t stop pushing 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z The astronomer’s belief in a planetwide complex of irrigation canals spurred a wave of novels about Martians, particularly books by Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. G. Wells. Your Wednesday Briefing 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z This year sees two key dates focused on prescient author, scientist and educator H. G. Wells: the 150th anniversary of his birth, and the 70th of his death. Listings: Science in culture 2016 : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z H. G. Wells published his first novel, The Time Machine, in 1895, just a few years before Queen Victoria's six-decade reign over the U.K. ended. Traveling Backward in Time Is Kind of Hard 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z H. G. Wells’s novel The Invisible Man updated the Gyges story, demonstrating the corrupting temptations of invisibility and the way it can sever our sense of personal responsibility for our actions. The moral challenge of invisibility 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Then, in 1927, when he was twenty-three, he read an essay by H. G. Wells about the Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov. How Everyone Gets Pavlov Wrong 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z “They all read H. G. Wells and Jules Verne,” he said. Frederick I. Ordway III, a NASA Official Who Helped Shape ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ Dies at 87 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z The irony is that the solution turned out to be fairly simple, and the time-travelling device wasn't some large vehicle à la H. G. Wells, but a small, wrist-worn gadget. Time and again 2012-12-05T18:50:40.723Z Like the Magic Shop in the H. G. Wells short story, its door will not just close behind us but disappear, never to be found again. City Room: The End of the World of Video as We Know It 2012-04-24T21:57:16Z The fantastic stories of H. G. Wells were ever a joy. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z H. G. Wells, as might be expected, has a way of his own. How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction 2012-02-17T03:00:36.070Z The major problem which confronted Mr. Hughes was this: The Great War had been followed, as Mr. H. G. Wells aptly says, by the Petty Peace. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z My dear H. G. Wells, You reduce me to mere gelatinous grovel. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z Mr. H. G. Wells took the idea of describing an imagined tomorrow and made of it a stimulating romance. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z H. G. Wells sets forth this curious idea; and then, of course, the bishops and the clergy rise up in indignation and denounce Mr. Wells as an upstart and trespasser upon their field. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z Brian David Johnson is hardly the world's first futurist—a vocation of prognosticating scientists and social scientists dating back to the likes of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells. Prescient Processing: A Q&A with Intel Futurist Brian Johnson and Why We Shouldn't Fear the Future 2011-11-08T12:45:00.287Z Arnold Bennett and H. G. Wells set off in the nineties in a world encouragingly full of talk about good writing. Henry James 2011-09-05T02:00:22.877Z The second part of the book, “God-Builders,” begins: “In September 1920, at the suggestion of the writer Maxim Gorky and with a letter from Lenin in his pocket, H. G. Wells arrived in Russia.” The Scientific Revolt Against Death 2011-05-08T20:36:00Z H. G. Wells, in his War of the Worlds, attributed intelligence to monsters—half-cuttlefish and half-anemone,—and the human form to their helpless, unresisting prey. Are the Planets Inhabited? 2011-04-24T02:00:07.733Z H. G. Wells has a novel, "In the Days of the Comet," in which he portrays two men, both nobly and truly in love with the same woman. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z H. G. Wells in his Outline of History seldom seems just an Englishman. Seeing Things at Night 2011-04-10T02:00:05.360Z Please don't think I'm talking in what H. G. Wells calls the tin-pot style—but one must express oneself somehow. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z For decades, male Centurions, as members of the Century are known, relished their access to the regal British club frequented by H. G. Wells, Dickens and William Thackeray. At a Club for Civil Discussions, Polarizing Debate 2011-02-10T03:54:42Z Unlike H. G. Wells, he was incapable of cant. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z This is a copyrighted computer-generated audio performance of Project Gutenberg's public domain book, Mankind in the Making, by H. G. Wells. Mankind in the Making 2011-01-13T03:01:17.997Z This is a copyrighted computer-generated audio performance of Project Gutenberg's public domain book, "The Time Machine", by H. G. Wells. The Time Machine 2010-12-29T03:00:28.140Z He owned classics like Epictetus, the Koran and the Bible, and kept up with contemporaries like H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, Charles Darwin and Victor Hugo. In His Private Books, Signs of Mark Twain as Critic 2010-04-19T01:27:00Z "Negating gravity is not a simple matter like inventing a magic sheet of metal that cuts off the pull of the Earth, such as H. G. Wells wrote about," Oberfield had explained. The Secret of the Ninth Planet This involved a great problem for New York before factories were deported and the moving “H. G. Wells” sidewalks introduced. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z He had been interested in H. G. Wells' pungent comments on the way we manage education, and he was fascinated by the sweeping schemes of reconstruction. Years of Plenty The author is a grim disciple of Mr. H. G. Wells at his grimmest; he gives a series of vivid snapshots portraying the events which lead to the final extinction of the race of man. The Last Generation A Story of the Future In literature I cannot call to mind that woman has ever conceived a Utopia such as those imagined by Bellamy, Samuel Butler, William Morris, and H. G. Wells. The Intelligence of Woman The interest aroused by Verne's sort of story—H. G. Wells' earlier work and Conan Doyle's "The Lost World" are more recent examples—is real, but almost exclusively intellectual, therefore relatively weak and evanescent. The Technique of Fiction Writing H. G. Wells thought it amazing, but chiefly amazing as a lapse from civilization. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z Mr. H. G. Wells has recently startled the general public by his advocacy of a struggling deity. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance He has read a good many books, both old and new; he is one who cares for literature manifestly: then why does he call Mr. H. G. Wells a great imaginative artist? Pot-Boilers I do not think woman will always be savage, though I hope she will not turn into the clear-eyed, weather-beaten mate that Mr. H. G. Wells likes to think of—for the future. The Intelligence of Woman When it was known that Mr. H. G. Wells had set forth to discover God, all amateurs of intellectual adventure were filled with pleasurable excitement and anticipation. God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' Science Fiction can be written very convincingly, as is testified by the stories of H. G. Wells, Ray Cummings, Jules Verne, and others. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 It is estimated that The Outline of History by Mr. H. G. Wells will be concluded this year. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. CLVIII, January 7, 1920 With all its brilliant qualities, few more superficial "studies" of American affairs have been given to the world than that of Mr. H. G. Wells. The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations Then came H. G. Wells, smiling and very deprecating and almost inarticulate, to tell them of the enormous importance of the novelist. Changing Winds A Novel Fancy an omnipresent H. G. Wells, able to speak in a still small voice to all men of good-will throughout the world! God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' I believe you could do worse than to run an occasional H. G. Wells story, and if you gave us "The First Men in the Moon" serially, I for one would be delighted. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 Why not print a story by Sax Rohmer, H. G. Wells, or some of them?—H. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 The first to rise was Mr. Harold Begbie, but he failed to catch the Chairman's eye, which had been secured by Mr. H. G. Wells. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 23, 1914 Most of the readers who object to reprints do so because they would hate to see a story by H. G. Wells or Jules Verne. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 If you publish any of H. G. Wells' works, give them cover illustrations, too. Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 I'm going to read H. G. Wells, and Hichens, and Aristotle, and some history, and all sorts of 'improving' things. The Limit And now let us imagine ourselves possessed of one of those time-machines of which Mr. H. G. Wells is the inventor. Progress and History At this juncture it was brought to the Chairman's notice that Mr. H. G. Wells was missing. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 23, 1914 In Mr. H. G. Wells' story of the men who invaded the moon, he describes a conversation between the travelers and the Grand Lunar. A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds H. G. Wells would seem to have had no earthly experiences since he was a priest of Bel, or if he had they were comparatively colourless. The Orchard of Tears But I will say of this harmony of humours what Mr. H. G. Wells says of his harmony of states in the unity of his World State. What I Saw in America —From H. G. Wells "In the Days of the Comet." Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature And, coming at last to Nocturne, I fall back cheerfully upon the praise accorded that novel by H. G. Wells in his preface to it. When Winter Comes to Main Street Chesterton's own generation has seen both the victory and the downfall of form in the novels of Mr. Galsworthy and Mr. H. G. Wells. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study A very strange and uncanny-looking lily, which I had never seen before, turned up near Kandersteg at the Blue Lake, beloved of Mr. H. G. Wells. More Science From an Easy Chair I am interested in the same thing when it takes a far more subtle form, in men of genius and genuine social enthusiasm like Mr. H. G. Wells. What I Saw in America Later he found how amazingly they were assorted—the latest novel of Robert Chambers beside H. G. Wells's First and Last Things; a dusty expensive book on Italian sculpture near a cheap reprint of Dodo. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life When the chapters appeared as a book, this magnificent take-off of contemporary American writers as well as of H. G. Wells leaped at once into the place of a 95 best seller. When Winter Comes to Main Street On this occasion, G.K.C. politely refused even to refer to the vital point of the case of Mr. H. G. Wells. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study Then, again, I shall have to introduce expert testimony: "The literary life," says no less an authority than H. G. Wells, "is one of the modern forms of adventure." If You Don't Write Fiction Some of the most brilliant men of the age, such as Mr. H. G. Wells and Mr. J. L. Garvin, made interesting and important speeches, and many scientific aviators luminously discussed the new science. What I Saw in America Of course I've read H. G. Wells, and I learnt a lot of him by heart to tell Cicely, but I love to have him for my own. A Sheaf of Corn He tried some of H. G. Wells's to start with. Mufti Mr. H. G. Wells points out that there is no particular need in his case to take action. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, May 20, 1914 Stray recollections of weird stories by H. G. Wells passed through the288 mind of Jones. The Man Who Lost Himself The beauties of the positive ideals of the socialist Utopias have been sufficiently lauded by scores of writers from Sir Thomas More to Bellamy and Mr. H. G. Wells. Socialism: Positive and Negative By H. G. Wells "It's your own choosing," said the man with the withered arm once more. The Red Room That is all people were doing back in 1938 when the Martians landed in New Jersey, at the time Orson Welles presented a radio version of H. G. Wells' 'War of the Worlds'. The Fourth Invasion H. G. Wells presents what is probably the most alluring statement of the claims of socialism that has ever been put forward. Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles Clear and cool, it was “a Herbert Spencer of a day,” as H. G. Wells once remarked. Pipefuls The Neo-Darwinians failed to convince me; the works of H. G. Wells left me cold. The Psychical Researcher's Tale - The Sceptical Poltergeist From "The New Decameron", Volume III. It is flippancy or pedantry like this which gives rise to the onslaughts of a Cobden or Herbert Spencer or an H. G. Wells and to the practical man’s suspicion of a classical education. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield First of all, as many readers will quickly discern, it is in a sense a sequel to H. G. Wells' well known War of the Worlds. Edison's Conquest of Mars Surely Mrs. Humphry Ward or Mr. H. G. Wells might make something of this bewildering effect produced by exalted rank on the untutored mind. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography "Is that one of H. G. Wells' silly dreams?" Shorty McCabe on the Job He sketched an ideal, or rather perhaps a fanciful social system, with something of the ingenuity of Mr. H. G. Wells, but essentially with much more than the flippancy attributed to Mr. Bernard Shaw. A Short History of England H. G. Wells has written eulogistically of the book and also of the author's novel, "Capel Sion." The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story With the perspective we possess today it can be seen that he is easily the equal of Verne, standing with him and H. G. Wells as one of the foremost science-fiction writers of his day. Edison's Conquest of Mars It had been done by H. G. Wells and God knew how many other writers. Ten From Infinity Mr. H. G. Wells, who has been a leading figure in the British reform world and in the Fabian Society for many years, speaks on this reform movement not merely as a keen outside observer. Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement H. G. Wells, as usual, sees the centre of the situation. Memories and Studies I notice that Mr. H. G. Wells, in his very interesting book, Mankind in the Making, is in support of this suggestion. Highways and Byways in Sussex They are faithful to their training by G. Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells, in thinking that by stating a situation and arguing about it, you can shirk the need of dealing with it. Women's Wild Oats Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards Often in the course of these essays I have quoted from H. G. Wells. A Preface to Politics Mr. H. G. Wells, for instance, says that Socialism is a "system of ideas," and that "Socialism and the Socialist movement are two different things." Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement The inert elements of the population had mostly got away, and those that remained seemed what Mr. H. G. Wells calls "efficients." Memories and Studies We have seen that Mr. H. G. Wells's proposed help for motherhood consists in discharging fatherhood from its duties: Mrs. Gilman's idea is to double the mother's work. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles Aviation has come and is reminding us of the ancient prophecy of H. G. Wells that the suburbs of a city like New York will now soon extend from Washington to Albany. The Joyful Heart In May, 1912, the "Daily Mail" published a series of articles by H. G. Wells on "The Labour Unrest." A Preface to Politics And as for taking such property from the owners," asks Mr. H. G. Wells, "why shouldn't we? Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement When the Comstock Society began proceedings against "The 'Genius,'" a group of English novelists, including Arnold Bennett, H. G. Wells, W. L. George and Hugh Walpole, cabled an indignant caveat. A Book of Prefaces It looked as if a generous scientist, like the man in H. G. Wells' "Food of the Gods," had let loose some power capable of forcing on this abnormal growth. The Lost Valley With H. G. Wells several interchanges of letters have shown in earlier chapters how the soft answer turned aside a wrath easily aroused, but also easily dissipated. Gilbert Keith Chesterton H. G. Wells has been savage and often unfair about the Fabian Society, but in "The New Machiavelli" he touched, I believe, the real disillusionment. A Preface to Politics When the world has been slaking its literary thirst at sources such as H. G. Wells, Galsworthy, Ibanez—only to mention a few—should we be astonished that public opinion is drifting to paganism? Catholic Problems in Western Canada There is no way back into the past; the choice, as H. G. Wells once said, is the universe — or nothing. The Universe — or Nothing Plato, Sir Thomas More, p. xiWilliam Morris, and Mr. H. G. Wells have not disdained to transmit their philosophy under the domino of romance or myth. Masques & Phases That of H. G. Wells and Bernard Shaw is reinforced by most valuable letters which they have kindly allowed me to publish. Gilbert Keith Chesterton No better popular statement of this is to be found than H. G. Wells' little essay: "Skepticism of the Instrument." A Preface to Politics It's like asking H. G. Wells if he ever heard of Mark Twain.' The Parts Men Play He cured himself of this defect too, by rehearsing his speeches to a time machine—an ordinary stop-watch, not one of the H. G. Wells' variety. Success (Second Edition) My own final list, as pasted in the p. 122Album at Ivanhoe, along with others, was as follows: H. G. Wells. Masques & Phases With H. G. Wells as with Shaw, Gilbert's relations were exceedingly cordial, but with a cordiality occasionally threatened by explosions from Wells. Gilbert Keith Chesterton The changes that are before us are as great as the changes in thought and life described in the late novel by H. G. Wells, entitled "In the Days of the Comet." A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga Though literature lacks a yearly exhibition, such as is possessed by music and painting, they made it a subject for gossip, and denounced H. G. Wells as a 'bounder.' The Parts Men Play Mr. H. G. Wells, who is, if anybody is, a genius among moderns and a modern among geniuses, really did this very thing; he selected a god who was really more like a daemon. The New Jerusalem H. G. Wells should study them in drafting his outlines for world amity. Fascinating San Francisco Inclined at first to hope for the fruits of democracy from the Russian revolution Chesterton was soon being reproached by H. G. Wells for "dirty" suspiciousness about the Bolshevik leaders and their motives. Gilbert Keith Chesterton This was a bit of the modern war one reads about—it was a picture from some fanciful story of Mr. H. G. Wells. Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them We can barely foreshadow things too vast to grasp; things that will make the imaginings of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells seem puny by comparison. Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Shaw's aloof clarity and brilliant consistency and the gloriously intoxicated efforts of H. G. Wells to fit the key of romantic symmetry into the elusive lock of truth, alone won his rapt attention. This Side of Paradise Facing the racks was an L-shaped console, the control panel of this H. G. Wells spaceship, with a blue countertop for your elbows and papers. Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution Chapters 1 and 2 Comparing his own effort with that of H. G. Wells, Chesterton says, "I do not believe that the best way to produce an outline of history is to rub out the lines." Gilbert Keith Chesterton When he met H. G. Wells, he listened to the socialist, and, as it happens, was converted. Stories from Everybody's Magazine But the most striking instance of all, more striking, I think, even than either of these, is the instance of Mr. H. G. Wells. Heretics And I know lots of people who are simply terrorized by H. G. Wells. The Haunted Bookshop I find myself still sitting in front of the last book by Mr. H. G. Wells, I say stunned with admiration, my family says sleepy with fatigue. Alarms and Discursions H. G. Wells agreed in the main with Shaw: both were Fabians and both were ready with a Fabian Utopia for humanity, which Belloc and Chesterton felt would be little better than a prison. Gilbert Keith Chesterton They come down from Oxford and Cambridge with their heads stuffed with ideas pinched from Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells, and they try to stampede old Clotworthy. The Foolish Lovers Even the opportunism of Mr. H. G. Wells is more dogmatic than the idealism of anybody else. Heretics For they will look upon it as an idle phantasy, as curious invention, in the style of some of the wonder tales by Rudyard Kipling or H. G. Wells, conceived for their amusement. The Bride of Dreams And it isn't one of those fantastic things from Mars that H. G. Wells would put in a novel. The Conquest of America A Romance of Disaster and Victory H. G. Wells, the alleged historian, says, p. The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments This one ought to please Mr. H. G. Wells: When whelmed are altar, priest, and creed; When all the faiths have passed; Perhaps, from darkening incense freed, God may emerge at last. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century Mr. H. G. Wells exists at present in a gay and exhilarating progress of conservativism. Heretics Knut Hamsun, H. G. Wells, and Jack London were certainly more popular than any living Russian novelist, except perhaps the Russian Miss Dell, Mme. Tales of the Wilderness But these merely postponed or obscured the need for a machine by complicating the elections, or as H. G. Wells once said with scrupulous accuracy, the selections. Public Opinion Sir Ray Lancaster, writing to H. G. Wells, concerning the Piltdown find, says, "We are stumped and baffled." The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments H. G. Wells is the great exemplar, with his sociological studies wrapped in description and tied with a plot. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism In other words, Plato turned his face to truth but his back on Mr. H. G. Wells, when he turned to his museum of specified ideals. Heretics In writers like Jack London and H. G. Wells the reader found what he missed in the Russian novelists—a good story thrillingly told. Tales of the Wilderness "The age of great adventure," were the words used by Mr. H. G. Wells to describe this epoch as we discussed it. A Traveller in War-Time “Civilization,” said H. G. Wells, “is a race between education and catastrophe.” State of the Union Address For pure imagination I should always fly to a book by H. G. Wells. The Upton Letters The most interesting thing about Mr. H. G. Wells is that he is the only one of his many brilliant contemporaries who has not stopped growing. Heretics Mr. H. G. Wells is an author whose work I have followed with delight, interest and respect for years—since first I read that sinister vision of dead worlds, "The Time Machine." The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) Graham Wallas, Lowes-Dickinson, H. G. Wells, are a few of the names found in the pages of the Magazine and the News. The Story of Wellesley Sir Walter Scott stands at the dawn of the nineteenth century for the novel of the past; Mr. H. G. Wells stands at the dawn of the twentieth century for the novel of the future. What's Wrong with the World Mr. H. G. Wells, in his "Outline of History," was of necessity forced to omit the narration of many of the chief events in the history of these United States. A Parody Outline of History H. G. Wells has asked all scholars to unite in writing a "Bible of the New Education." The Iron Puddler My life in the rolling mills and what came of it She is essentially an outlaw, a rebel, what H. G. Wells calls a nomad. In Defense of Women Mr. H. G. Wells, who, as far as I know, has never written a line of verse, was inspired a few years ago to write a short story, Under the Knife. Notes on Life and Letters |
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