Bibliography of H.G. Wells: With a Prologue Introducing Mr. Wells to the Future

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Covici-McGee Company, 1924 - 51 strán (strany)

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Strana 22 - Contents: The coming of Bleriot. — My first flight. — Off the chain. — Of the new reign. — Will the empire live? — The labour unrest. — Social panaceas. — Syndicalism or citizenship? — The great state. — The common sense of warfare. — The contemporary novel. — The philosopher's public library. — About Chesterton and Belloc. — About Sir Thomas More. — Traffic and rebuilding. — The so-called science of sociology. — Divorce. — The schoolmaster and the empire. — The...
Strana 42 - ... Calendar. A Quotation from the Works of HG Wells for every day in the year selected by Rosamund Marriot Watson. (Frank Palmer, London. 1911. 12mo. Pp. 102, with photographic frontispiece, and printed throughout in green and black. Issued in vellum wrappers, lettered in dark green on back and front cover.) 1912 What the Worker Wants : The Daily Mail Enquiry. By HG Wells (and many others) (Hodder & Stoughton, London. 1912. 8vo. In paper wrappers). (This volume consists of articles and letters on...
Strana viii - Of these three divisions of time, then, how can two, the past and the future, be, when the past no longer is and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time but eternity.
Strana 4 - Of conversation and the anatomy of fashion. - The theory of the perpetual discomfort of humanity. - The use of ideals. - The art of being photographed. - Bagshot's mural decorations. - On social music. - The joys of being engaged. - La belle dame sans merci. - On a tricycle. - An unsuspected masterpiece. The great change. - The pains of marriage; A misunderstood artist; The man with a nose.
Strana 5 - The Stolen Bacillus, The Flowering of the Strange Orchid, In the Avu Observatory, The Triumphs of a Taxidermist, A Deal in Ostriches, Through a Window, The Temptation of Harringay, The Flying Man, The Diamond Maker ,Ae^>yornis Island, The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes, The Lord of the Dynamos, The Hammerpond Park Burglary, A Moth - Genus Novo, The Treasure in the Forest.
Strana 10 - Contents: Locomotion in the twentieth century. — The probable diffusion of great cities. — Developing social elements. — Certain social reactions. — The life-history of democracy. — War in the twentieth century. — The conflict of languages. — The larger synthesis. — Faith, morals and public policy in the twentieth century.
Strana 12 - Filmer, The Magic Shop, The Valley of Spiders, The Truth about Pyecraft, Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland, The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost, Jimmy Goggles the God, The New Accelerator, Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation, The Stolen Body, Mr. Brisher's Treasure, Miss Winchelsea's Heart, A Dream of Armageddon.
Strana 7 - The Plattner Story, The Argonauts of the Air, The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham, In the Abyss, The Apple, Under the Knife, The Sea-raiders, Pollock and the Porroh Man, The Red Room, The Cone, The Purple Pileus, The Jilting of Jane...
Strana 20 - ... (5)-153 ; p. (154) blank ; Printers' imprint at head of p. (155), THIS book has been set up by Bertha S. Goudy at the Village Press, New / York, with types and decorations designed by Frederic W. Goudy, under / whose supervision it has been printed by Norman TA Munder & / Company, Baltimore, USA / Six hundred copies printed on French hand-made paper, in November, / 1911, and the types distributed. p. (156) blank; one blank leaf follows, not reckoned in the pagination. There are 9 illustrations...
Strana 5 - Vol. 2. The Island of Doctor Moreau and The Sleeper Awakes. Vol. 3. The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, and A Dream of Armageddon. Vol. 4. Anticipations, Introduction to 1914 edition of Anticipations...

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