The complete online text of Mr. Britling Sees It Through 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...

When Laura Bush toured Europe this month, the first lady debuted a collection of suits created for her by the New York-based designer Arnold Scaasi. He naturally pronounced his group of six ensembles a success and now says he's ready to begin work on...

Nelly Reifler. See Through. Simon & Schuster, 2003. 148 pp. $21.00. The fourteen stories that make up Nelly Reifler's terrific first collection form a kind of cabinet of fear and wonder in the mind. They achieve this by skillfully fusing aspects of realism,...