Masters of Prose - H. G. Wells

Welcome to the Masters of Prose book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors.

Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on the author's novels, short stories, letters, essays and biographical texts. Thus providing the reader with an overview of the author's life and work.

This edition is dedicated to the English writer H. G. Wells. 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. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called the "father of science fiction", along with Jules Verne and the publisher Hugo Gernsback.

This book contains the following writings:

Novels: Time Machine; The War of the Worlds.

Short Stories: A Dream Of Armageddon; The Crystal Egg; The Man Who Could Work Miracles; The Flowering of the Strange Orchid; The Sea Riders; The Apple; The Argonauts of the Air.

Biographical: H.G. Wells by J.D. Beresford.

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    Jerome K Jerome, Charles Kingsley, James Joyce, Rudyard Kipling, D. H. Lawrence, Sheridan Le Fanu, Oscar Wilde, H.G. Wells, Lewis Carroll, Zenith Horizon Publishing

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  2. 100 Meisterwerke der englischen Literatur - Klassiker, die man kennen muss

    George Orwell, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Katherine Mansfield, H.P. Lovecraft, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Burns, John Milton, William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Geoffrey Chaucer, Laurence Sterne, Henry Fielding, Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, Herman Melville, Thomas Wolfe, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, Sinclair Lewis, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, Jerome K Jerome, Washington Irving, Bram Stoker, H.G. Wells, Daniel Defoe, Lew Wallace, James Fenimore Cooper, Jonathan Swift, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Lewis Carrol, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack London, Henry David Thoreau, G.K. Chesterton, Edith Wharton, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Margaret Mitchell, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, James Joyce, John Galsworthy, Francis Hodgson Burnett, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Louisa May Alcott, Rudyard Kipling

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  3. Gruselkabinett, Box 32: Folgen 123, 126, 127, 128

    Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Charles Dickens, H.G. Wells

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  4. Gruselkabinett, Box 34: Folgen 132, 133, 135, 136

    Sweeney Todd, Amyas Northcote, H.G. Wells

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  5. Gruselkabinett, Box 30: Folgen 117, 118, 119, 122

    Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells

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  6. Gruselkabinett, Box 31: Folgen 120, 121, 124, 125

    H.G. Wells

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  7. Gruselkabinett, Box 37: Folgen 145, 146, 147, 148

    M. R. James, H.G. Wells, Per McGraup, Louisa May Alcott

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  8. Phantastische Geschichten, H.G.Wells - Gesammelte Werke 1

    H.G. Wells, Oliver Döring

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  9. 101 Libros Imprescindibles Para Leer En Tu Vida : Explorando la vastedad literaria a través de 101 obras imprescindibles

    Franz Kafka, Lewis Carroll, Henrik Ibsen, Mark Twain, Immanuel Kant, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio, Bram Stoker, Emily Brontë, Jack London, Victor Hugo, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jane Austen, Herman Melville, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Benito Pérez Galdós, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Washington Irving, Juan Valera, Horacio Quiroga, Charles Baudelaire, Voltaire, Leopoldo Alas, John Milton, José Martí, Rubén Darío, Antonio Machado, Emilia Pardo Bazán, L. Frank Baum, H.G. Wells, H.P. Lovecraft, Seneca, Hans Christian Andersen, Friedrich Nietzsche, Mary Shelley, Sófocles, Sun Tzu, Antón Chéjov, León Tolstoi, Tomás Moro, San Agustín, Julio Verne, Homero, Platón, Hermanos Grimm, Jorge Isaacs, Ignacio De Loyola, Nicolás Maquiavelo, Miguel Cervantes, Teresa de Jesús, Miguel De Unamuno, Duque de Rivas, Ramón María del Valle-Inclán, Federico García Lorca, Gibrán Jalil Gibrán

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  10. Gruselkabinett, Folge 146: Der rote Raum

    H.G. Wells

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  11. Gruselkabinett, Folge 121: Der Unsichtbare (Teil 2 von 2)

    H.G. Wells

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  12. Gruselkabinett, Folge 122: Die Insel des Dr. Moreau

    H.G. Wells

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