H.G. Wells - Complete Works H. G. Wells
Publisher: Longmeadow Press

Wells: 25 Books in One Volume (Unexpurgated Edition) is a treasure trove of the author's works, famous and otherwise. Most of the work consumed was either distributed through publishers like Sonzogno who put out, amongst countless other things, the complete works of Jules Verne at modest prices, or periodicals, such as Per Terra e Per Mare, La Sfinge, La Domenica del Corriere, etc. This week's highlighted work is War of the Worlds by H.G. From the mid 1800's until the beginning of World War II, the hunger in Italy for science fiction was vast, in large part due to the popularity of such writers as Jules Verne and H.G. In many ways, The Time Machine is his most complete work, a thorough development of the Darwinian ideas he had absorbed at the Normal School of Science and that would form the bedrock of everything else he did throughout his career. Wells, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. In the Atlantic edition of his collected works in the mid-1920s he looked back on that romance as one that he had sedulously polished” (Wells 1924:1, x). Wells is one of the 3 writers that are considered the Father of Science Fiction (the other 2 are Jules Verne, and Hugo Gernsback). Scientific optimism is faith in self, God and man with knowledge of material conditions required for the attainment of a specified goal as well as willing to work long and hard, and use every means and event, good or ill, for the transmutation of experience into achievement. Of the 3, I like the works of H.G. This essay shall explore the fictional worlds of four influential writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: H.G. As a lifelong friend of Ray Bradbury, and a clear fan of mythology, it is easy to conclude that Harryhausen would have an affinity for the works of HG Wells and Jules Verne. Wells also achieved acclaim as a science-fiction writer, although he produced works in numerous other genres as well. It seems rather fitting that Wells, the father of science fiction, would be among the first to have his writings digitally recorded and distributed. Wells, presented in two different versions: a solo reading and a collaborative reading.