Archives for Wells, H. G.

The Treasure in the Forest by W. G. Wells

Published On Monday, May 02, 2011. Under: Featured, Wells, H. G..
The Treasure in the Forest by W. G. Wells The canoe was now approaching the land. The bay opened out, and a gap in the white surf of the reef marked where the little river ran out to the sea; the thicker and deeper green of the ...

The Country of the Blind by H. B. Wells

Published On Saturday, April 16, 2011. Under: Featured, Wells, H. G..
The Country of the Blind by H. B. Wells Three hundred miles and more from Chimborazo, one hundred from the snows of Cotopaxi, in the wildest wastes of Ecuador's Andes, there lies that mysterious mountain valley, cut off from all the world of men, the Country of ...

The Moth by H. G. Wells

Published On Sunday, April 03, 2011. Under: Featured, Wells, H. G..
The Moth by H. G. Wells Probably you have heard of Hapley—not W. T. Hapley, the son, but the celebrated Hapley, the Hapley of Periplaneta Hapliia, Hapley the entomologist. If so you know at least of the great feud between Hapley and Professor Pawkins, though certain of its ...

The Diamond Maker by H. G. Wells

Published On Sunday, March 06, 2011. Under: Featured, Wells, H. G..
The Diamond Maker  by H. G. Wells Some business had detained me in Chancery Lane nine in the evening, and thereafter, having some inkling of a headache, I was disinclined either for entertainment or further work. So much of the sky as the high cliffs of that ...

A Moonlight Fable by H. G. Wells

Published On Wednesday, February 02, 2011. Under: Featured, Wells, H. G..
   A Moonlight Fable  by H. G. Wells There was once a little man whose mother made him a beautiful suit of clothes. It was green and gold and woven so that I cannot describe how delicate and fine it was, and there was a tie of orange ...

A DREAM OF ARMAGEDDON BY H. G. WELLS

Published On Tuesday, September 21, 2010. Under: Featured, Wells, H. G..
A DREAM OF ARMAGEDDON  BY H. G. WELLS The man with the white face entered the carriage at Rugby. He moved slowly in spite of the urgency of his porter, and even while he was still on the platform I noted how ill he seemed. He dropped ...

THE STAR by H. G. wells

Published On Saturday, July 10, 2010. Under: Featured, Wells, H. G..
THE STAR by H. G. wells It was on the first day of the New Year that the announcement was made, almost simultaneously from three observatories, that the motion of the planet Neptune, the outermost of all the planets that wheel about the sun, had become very ...

THE RED ROOM by H. G. Wells

Published On Friday, May 28, 2010. Under: Wells, H. G..
THE RED ROOM by H. G. Wells "I can assure you," said I, "that it will take a very tangible ghost to frighten me." And I stood up before the fire with my glass in my hand. "It is your own choosing," said the man with the ...

THE MAGIC SHOP by H. G. Wells

Published On Saturday, May 08, 2010. Under: Wells, H. G..
THE MAGIC SHOP by H. G. Wells I had seen the Magic Shop from afar several times; I had passed it once or twice, a shop window of alluring little objects, magic balls, magic hens, wonderful cones, ventriloquist dolls, the material of the basket trick, packs of ...

THE VALLEY OF SPIDERS by H.G. Wells

Published On Sunday, April 04, 2010. Under: Adventure, Wells, H. G..
THE VALLEY OF SPIDERS by H.G. Wells Towards mid-day the three pursuers came abruptly round a bend in the torrent bed upon the sight of a very broad and spacious valley. The difficult and winding trench of pebbles along which they had tracked the fugitives for ...