
Escritor inglês, de nome completo Herbert George Wells, nascido em 1866 e falecido em 1946, teve uma infância difícil mas foi um autodidacta incansável, conseguindo licenciar-se em Ciências pela Universidade de Londres. É considerado um dos pioneiros da ficção científica. A sua obra revela fé no progresso técnico. Destacam-se, de entre os numerosos livros que publicou, The Time Machine (A Máquina do Tempo, 1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (A Ilha do Doutor Moreau, 1896) e The War of the Worlds (A Guerra dos Mundos, 1897).
(fonte: Infopedia)
Opiniões[catlist=79]
Bibliografia
Romances
– Viagem à Esfinge Branca/A Máquina do Tempo (1895)
- Tip. Domingos de Oliveira (1936)
- Círculo de Leitores (1990)
- Europa-América (1992), edição de bolso
- Público (2005), colecção Geração Público
– The Wonderful Visit (1895)
– A Ilha do Doutor Moreau (1896)
- Círculo de Leitores (1988)
- Europa-América (1989)
– The Wheels of Chance (1896)
– O Homem Invisível (1897)
- A Editora (1909)
- Ulisseia (1966)
- Pública (1985)
- Círculo dos Leitores (1989)
- Europa-América (1992)
- Edições Século XXI (2000)
– A Guerra dos Mundos (1898)
- Minerva (1934)
- Ulisseia (1966)
- Círculo dos Leitores (1972)
- Editores Associados (1974)
- Pública (1985)
- Europa-América (1992), edição de bolso
- Verbo (2006)
– When the Sleeper Wakes (1899)
– Love and Mr Lewisham (1900)
– Os Exploradores da Lua (1901), publicado pela Gomes de Carvalho em 1902
– The Sea Lady (1902)
– O Alimento dos Deuses (1904), publicado pela Livraria Clássica em 1908
– Alma Simples (1905), publicado pela Portugália em 1945
– A Modern Utopia (1905)
– In the Days of the Comet (1906)
– The War in the Air (1908)
– Tono-Bungay (1909)
– Ann Veronica (1909)
– The History of Mr Polly (1910)
– The Sleeper Awakes (1910) – edição revista de “When the Sleeper Awakes” (1899)
– The New Machiavelli (1911)
– Marriage (1912)
– The Passionate Friends (1913)
– The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914)
– The World Set Free (1914)
– Bealby: A Holiday (1915)
– The Research Magnificent (1915)
– Mr Britling Sees it Through (1916)
– The Soul of a Bishop (1917)
– Joan and Peter: A Story of an Education (1918)
– The Undying Fire (1919)
– The Secret Places of the Heart (1922)
– Men Like Gods (1923)
– The Dream (1924)
– Christina Alberta’s Father (1925)
– The World of William Clissold (1926)
– Meanwhile (1927)
– Mr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island (1928)
– The King Who Was a King (1929)
– The Autocracy of Mr Parham (1930)
– The Bulpington of Blup (1932)
– The Shape of Things to Come (1933)
– The Croquet Player (1936)
– Brynhild (1937)
– Star Begotten (1937)
– The Camford Visitation (1937)
– Apropos of Dolores (1938)
– The Brothers (1938)
– The Holy Terror (1939)
– Babes in the Darkling Wood (1940)
– All Aboard for Ararat (1940)
– You Can’t Be Too Careful (1941)
Contos
– “A Family Elopement” (1884)
– “A Tale of the Twentieth Century” (1887)
– “A Talk with Gryllotalpa” (1887) – publicado com o pseudónimo Septimus Browne
– “A Vision of the Past” (1887)
– “The Chronic Argonauts” (1888)
– “The Devotee of Art” (1888)
– “The Flying Man” (também conhecido como “The Advent of the Flying Man“) (1893)
– “Æpyornis Island” (1894)
– “A Deal in Ostriches” (1894)
– “The Diamond Maker” (1894)
– “The Final Men” (1894)
– “The Flowering of the Strange Orchid” (aka “The Strange Orchid“) (1894)
– “The Hammerpond Park Burglary” (1894)
– “The Lord of the Dynamos” (1894)
– “How Gabriel Became Thompson” (1894)
– “In the Avu Observatory” (1894)
– “In the Modern Vein: An Unsympathetic Love Story” (também conhecido como “A Bardlet’s Romance“) (1894)
– “The Jilting of Jane” (1894)
– “The Lord of the Dynamos” (1894)
– “The Man With a Nose” (1894)
– “A Misunderstood Artist” (1894)
– “The Stolen Bacillus” (1894)
– “The Thing in No. 7” (1894)
– “Through a Window” (também conhecido como “At a Window“) (1894)
– “The Thumbmark” (1894)
– “The Treasure in the Forest” (1894)
– “The Triumphs of a Taxidermist” (1894)
– “The Argonauts of the Air” (1895)
– “A Catastrophe” (1895)
– “The Cone” (1895)
– “How Pingwell Was Routed” (1895)
– “Le Mari Terrible” (1895)
– “The Moth” (também conhecido “A Moth – Genus Novo“) (1895)
– “Our Little Neighbour” (1895)
– “Pollock and the Porroh Man” (1895)
– “The Reconciliation” (também conhecido como “The Bulla“) (1895)
– “The Remarkable Case of Davidson’s Eyes” (também conhecido como “The Story of Davidson’s Eyes“) (1895)
– “The Temptation of Harringay” (1895)
– “Wayde’s Essence” (1895)
– “The Apple” (1896)
– “In the Abyss” (1896)
– “The Plattner Story” (1896)
– “The Purple Pileus” (1896)
– “The Rajah’s Treasure” (1896)
– “The Red Room” (1896)
– “The Sea Raiders” (1896)
– “A Slip Under the Microscope” (1896)
– “The Story of the Late Mr Elvesham” (1896)
– “Under the Knife” (também conhecido como “Slip Under the Knife”) (1896)
– “The Crystal Egg” (1897)
– “Le Mari Terrible” (1897)
– “The Ghost of Fear” (1897)
– “The Lost Inheritance” (1897)
– “Mr Marshall’s Doppelganger” (1897)
– “A Perfect Gentleman on Wheels” (1897)
– “The Presence by the Fire” (1897)
– “The Star” (1897)
– “Uma História dos Tempos Futuros”/”Coisas que hão-de vir… : a vida futura” (1897)
- Gomes de Carvalho (1903)
- Imprensa Beleza (1936)
– “Narrativas dos Tempos Primitivos” (1897), publicado pela Gomes de Carvalho em 1902
– “Jimmy Goggles the God” (1898)
– “The Man Who Could Work Miracles” (1898)
– “Miss Winchelsea’s Heart” (1898)
– “Mr. Leadbetter’s Vacation” (1898)
– “The Stolen Body” (1898)
– “Walcote” (1898)
– “Mr Brisher’s Treasure” (1899)
– “A Vision of Judgment” (1899)
– “A Dream of Armageddon” (1901)
– “Filmer” (1901)
– “Mr Skelmersdale in Fairyland” (1901)
– “The New Accelerator” (1901)
– “The Inexperienced Ghost” (também conhecido como “The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost“) (1902)
– “The Loyalty of Esau Common” (1902)
– “The Land Ironclads” (1903)
– “Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland” (1903)
– “The Magic Shop” (1903)
– “The Truth About Pyecraft” (1903)
– “The Valley of the Spiders” (1903)
– “Em Terra de Cegos” (1904), publicado pela Padrões Culturais em 2008
– “The Empire of the Ants” (1905)
– “The Door in the Wall” (1906)
– “The Beautiful Suit” (também conhecido como “A Moonlight Fable“) (1909)
– “Little Mother Up the Morderberg” (1910)
– “My First Aeroplane” (1910)
– “The Obliterated Man” (1911)
– “The Sad Story of a Dramatic Critic” (1915)
– “The Story of the Last Trump” (1915)
– “The Wild Asses of the Devil” (1915)
– “Peter Learns Arithmetic” (1918)
– “The Grisly Folk” (1921)
– “The Pearl of Love” (1924)
– “The Queer Story of Brownlow’s Newspaper” (1932)
– “Answer to Prayer” (1937)
– “The Country of the Blind (revisto)” (1939)
Colectâneas de contos
– The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents (1895)
– Select Conversations With an Uncle (1895)
– The Red Room (1896)
– Thirty Strange Stories (1897)
– The Plattner Story and Others (1897)
– Tales of Space and Time (1899)
– A Cure For Love (1899)
– Twelve Stories and a Dream (1903)
– The Country of the Blind and Other Stories (1911)
– The Door in the Wall and Other Stories (1911)
– The Star (1913)
– Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump (1915) – primeira edição publicada com pseudónimo Reginald Bliss
– Tales of the Unexpected (1922)
– Tales of Wonder (1923)
– Tales of Life and Adventure (1923)
– The Empire of the Ants and Other Stories (1925)
– The Short Stories of H. G. Wells (1927)
– Selected Short Stories (1927)
– The Adventures of Tommy (1929)
– The Valley of Spiders (1930)
– The Stolen Body and Other Tales of the Unexpected (1931)
– The Famous Short Stories of H. G. Wells (também conhecido como The Favorite Short Stories of H. G. Wells) (1937)
– Short Stories by H. G. Wells (1940)
– The Inexperienced Ghost (1943)
– The Land Ironclads (1943)
– The New Accelerator (1943)
– The Truth About Pyecraft and Other Short Stories (1943)
– Twenty-Eight Science Fiction Stories (1952)
– Seven Stories (1953)
– Three Prophetic Science Fiction Novels of H. G. Wells (1960)
– The Cone (1965)
– Best Science Fiction Stories of H. G. Wells (1966)
– The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells (1966)
– The Man with the Nose and Other Uncollected Stories of H. G. Wells (1984)
– The Red Room and Other Stories (1998)
– Selected Stories of H. G. Wells (2004)
Argumentos de filmes
– Things to Come (1935 – adaptação de “The Shape of Things to Come” e “The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind”)
– The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)
– The New Faust (na Nash’s Pall Magazine, Dezembro de 1936 – adaptação de “The Story of the Late Mr Elvesham”)
Não Ficção
– Honours Physiography (1893) – com R. A. Gregory
– Text-Book of Biology/Zoology (1893)
– Certain Personal Matters (1897)
– Anticipations of the Reactions of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought (1901)
– Mankind in the Making (1903)
– The Future in America (1906)
– This Misery of Boots (1907)
– Will Socialism Destroy the Home? (1907)
– First and Last Things (1908)
– Floor Games (1911)
– The Great State (1912)
– Great Thoughts From H. G. Wells (1912)
– Thoughts From H. G. Wells (1912)
– Little Wars (1913)
– New Worlds for Old (1913)
– The War That Will End War (1914)
– An Englishman Looks at the World (1914)
– The War and Socialism (1915)
– The Peace of the World (1915)
– What is Coming? (1916)
– The Elements of Reconstruction (1916) – publicado com o pseudónimo D. P.
– God the Invisible King (1917)
– War and the Future (também conhecido como Italy, France and Britain at War) (1917)
– Introduction to Nocturne (1917)
– In the Fourth Year (1918)
– The Idea of a League of Nations (1919) – com Viscount Edward Grey, Lionel Curtis, William Archer, H. Wickham Steed, A. E. Zimmern, J. A. Spender, Viscount Bryce e Gilbert Murray
– The Way to the League of Nations (1919) – com Viscount Edward Grey, Lionel Curtis, William Archer, H. Wickham Steed, A. E. Zimmern, J. A. Spender, Viscount Bryce e Gilbert Murray
– História Universal (1920), publicado pela Livros do Brasil em 1956
– Russia in the Shadows (1920)
– Frank Swinnerton (1920) – com Arnold Bennett, Grant Overton
– The Salvaging of Civilization (1921)
– Uma Breve História do Mundo (1922), publicado pelas Edições Século XXI em 2003
– Washington and the Hope of Peace (também conhecido como “Washington and the Riddle of Peace”) (1922)
– Socialism and the Scientific Motive (1923)
– The Story of a Great Schoolmaster: Being a Plain Account of the Life and Ideas of Sanderson of Oundle (1924) – biografia de Frederick William Sanderson
– A Year of Prophesying (1925)
– A Short History of Mankind (1925)
– Mr. Belloc Objects to “The Outline of History” (1926)
– Wells’ Social Anticipations (1927)
– The Way the World is Going (1928)
– The Book of Catherine Wells (1928)
– The Open Conspiracy (também conhecido como What Are We To Do With Our Lives?) (1928)
– O Nosso Corpo (1930) – com Julian S. Huxley, G. P. Wells, publicado pela José Olympio em 1940
– Divorce as I See It (1930)
– Points of View (1930)
– The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind (1931)
– The New Russia (1931)
– Selections From the Early Prose Works of H. G. Wells (1931)
– After Democracy (1932)
– An Experiment in Autobiography (1934)
– The New America: The New World (1935)
– The Anatomy of Frustration (1936)
– World Brain (1938)
– The Fate of Homo Sapiens (também conhecido como The Fate Of Man) (1939)
– The New World Order (1939)
– Travels of a Republican Radical in Search of Hot Water (1939)
– The Common Sense of War and Peace (1940)
– The Rights of Man (1940)
– The Pocket History of the World (1941)
– Guide to the New World (1941)
– The Outlook for Homo Sapiens (1942)
– The Conquest of Time (1942)
– Modern Russian and English Revolutionaries (1942) – com Lev Uspensky
– Phoenix: A Summary of the Inescapable Conditions of World Reorganization (1942)
– Crux Ansata: An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church (1943)
– ’42 to ’44: A Contemporary Memoir (1944)
– Reshaping Man’s Heritage (1944) – com J. B. S. Haldane, Julian S. Huxley
– The Happy Turning (1945)
– Mind at the End of its Tether (1945)
– Marxism vs Liberalism (1945) – with J. V. Stalin
Artigos, ensaios e palestras
– “Zoological Retrogression” (1891)
– “The Rediscovery of the Unique” (1891)
– “Ancient Experiments in Co-Operation” (1892)
– “On Extinction” (1893)
– “The Man of the Year Million” (1893)
– “The Sun God and the Holy Stars” (1894)
– “Province of Pain” (1894)
– “Life in the Abyss” (1894)
– “Another Basis for Life” (1894)
– “The Rate of Change in Species” (1894)
– “The Biological Problem of To-day” (1894)
– “The ‘Cyclic’ Delusion” (1894)
– “Flat Earth Again” (1894)
– “Bio-Optimism” (1895)
– “Bye-Products in Evolution” (1895)
– “Death” (1895)
– “The Duration of Life” (1895)
– “The Visibility of Change in the Moon” (1895)
– “The Limits of Individual Plasticity” (1895)
– “Human Evolution, an Artificial Process” (1896)
– “Intelligence on Mars” (1896)
– “Concerning Skeletons” (1896)
– “The Possible Individuality of Atoms” (1896)
– “Morals and Civilisation” (1897)
– “On Comparative Theology” (1898)
– “The Discovery of the Future” (1902)
– “The Grisly Folk” (1921)
– “Mr. Wells and Mr. Vowles” (1926)
– “The Red Dust a Fact!” (1927)
– “Democracy Under Revision” (1927)
– “Common Sense of World Peace” (1929)
– “Foretelling the Future” (1938)