Herbert George Wells

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H. G. Wells

Herbert George Wells (tavaliselt kasutatakse nimekuju H. G. Wells; 21. september 1866 – 13. august 1946) oli inglise kirjanik. Ta oli üks kirjanikest, kelle teosed panid aluse ulmekirjandusele. Wells oli sotsialist ja enamik tema teoseid sisaldab ühiskonnakriitilisi elemente.

[redigeeri] Tähtsamad teosed

The Chronic Argonauts (1888)
Textbook of Biology (1893)
Honours Physiography, koos R.A. Gregoryga, (1893)
Select Conversations with an Uncle (1895)
The Time Machine (1895) ("Ajamasin")
The Wonderful Visit (1895)
The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents (1895)*
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896)* ("Doktor Moreau saar")
The Red Room (1896)*
The Wheels of Chance (1896)*
The Plattner Story, and Others (1897)
The Invisible Man ("Nähtamatu mees") (1897)*
Certain Personal Matters (1897)
The Crystal Egg – short story (1897)
The Star – short story, Graphic, Christmas (1897)*
The War of the Worlds (1898)* ("Maailmade sõda")
When the Sleeper Wakes (1899) (hilisem väljaanne The Sleeper Awakes, 1910)*
Love and Mr Lewisham (1900)*
The First Men in the Moon (1901)*
Anticipations (1901)
The Discovery of the Future (1902)
Mankind in the Making (1903)*
Twelve Stories and a Dream (1903)
The Scepticism of the Instrument – osa Oxfordi Filosoofiaseltsi istungil 8. novembril 1903. aastal peetud loengust)
The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth (1904)*
Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul (1905)
A Modern Utopia (1905)*
In the Days of the Comet (1906)*
The Future in America (1906)
Faults of the Fabian (1906)
Socialism and the Family (1906)
Reconstruction of the Fabian Society (1906)
This Misery of Boots (1907)
New Worlds for Old (1908)
The War in the Air (1908)*
First and Last Things (1908)*
Ann Veronica (1909)*
Tono-Bungay (1909)*
The History of Mr. Polly (1910)*
The Sleeper Awakes (1910)* – A When the Sleeper Wakes parandatud väljaanne
The New Machiavelli (1911)*
The Country of the Blind and Other Stories (1911)*
The Door in the Wall and Other Stories (1911)
Floor Games (1911)*
Marriage (1912)
Little Wars (1913)*
The World Set Free (1914)*
The Research Magnificent (1915)*
God the Invisible King (1917)*
War and the Future (1917)*
The Soul of a Bishop (1917)*
The Outline of History I, II 1920, 1931, 1940 (1949, 1956, 1961, 1971)
A Short History of the World (1922), "Lühike maailma ajalugu"
The Secret Places of the Heart (1922)*
Men Like Gods (1923) (Inimjumalad)
Christina Alberta's Father (1925)
The World of William Clissold (1926)
Meanwhile (1927)
Mr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island (1928)
The Open Conspiracy (1928)
The Science of Life (1930)
The Outline of Man's Work and Wealth (1931)
The Shape of Things to Come (1933)
What Are We To Do With Our Lives? (1933)
Star-Begotten (1937)
The New World Order (1940)
Crux Ansata (1943)

[redigeeri] Kirjandus

"Väliskirjandus XIX ja XX sajandi vahetusel" (kõrgkooliõpik). Valgus, Tallinn 1974, lk 291–301
Ivan Maiski, "Bernard Shaw ja teised" (mälestusi). Vene keelest tõlkinud Aino Lukas, Loomingu Raamatukogu 1979, nr 25/26
Oskar Kruus, "Herbert George Wells Eestis" – Keel ja Kirjandus 1979, nr 6, lk 350–355
Oskar Kruus, novell "Capriccio Kalijärve kaldal" raamatus "Ärkamised", 1984
George Orwell, "Wells, Hitler ja maailmariik" (poliitiline essee). Inglise keelest tõlkinud Udo Uibo – Vikerkaar 1995, nr 9/10
Oskar Kruus, "Parunessi pihtimus" (biograafiline jutustus, kus üks peategelasi on Wells), kirjastus Faatum, Tallinn 2004, 96 lk