The complete online text of An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells.

The English author Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) began his career as a novelist with a popular sequence of science fiction that remains the most familiar part of his work. He later wrote realistic novels and novels of ideas. On Sept. 21, 1866, H. G. W...

Herbert George Wells was one of the most prolific and most popular writers of short fiction of his era and of the twentieth century. Some of his longer fictions, such as The Time Machine: An Invention (1895) and The War of the Worlds (1898), have formed...

H. G. Wells's earlier works of science fiction have retained their popularity for nearly a century. In recent years they have also won academic regard for integrating the fantastic with the realistic to produce challenging alien perspectives. The influen...

We borrowed from them, but not before they borrowed from us. Today, in Saitama, Sven Goran Eriksson will not be the only member of a coaching staff crossing borders. Dr Paul Balsom will be hoping as fervently as the England manager that his team...

I was thinking about Malmesbury the other day. You know how it is with places you've never been. They sort of pop into your head. Sometimes it's Wenvoe, sometimes Oberammergau, if that's how you spell it. I wouldn't know. The spelling doesn't pop into...