...THE RESEARCH MAGNIFICENT by H. G. Wells (1915) (1915) (1915) (1915) (1915) A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSIC... ...THE RESEARCH MAGNIFICENT by H. G. Wells (1915) (1915) (1915) (1915) (1915) A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS S... ...ATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Port... ... ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portabl... ... talking of Eugenics and the “family”—Benham was almost knocked down by an American trotter driven by Lord Breeze. “Whup there!” said Lord Breeze in a... ...uestrian… .” That night some malignant spirit kept Benham awake, and great American trotters with vast wide-striding feet and long yellow teeth, uncon... ...like a vulture. It will have teeth like the English spin- ster in a French comic paper… . And we will fly….” “I shall enjoy it very much,” said Prothe... ...arefully exhibited. For example, the sheet had been torn into half a dozen strips and they were lying side by side on the bed. The clock on the mantel...

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...THE NEW MACHIAVELLI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machi... ...THE NEW MACHIAVELLI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiave... ...NN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portab... ...STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...nce of smoking during these twilight prowls with the threepenny packets of American cigarettes then just ap- pearing in the world. My life centred upo... ... of the newspapers, to casual po- litical speeches, to the cartoons of the comic papers or a chance reading of some Socialist pamphlet for any general... ...ng is a necessary function in a nation. The Romans broke up upon that. The Americans fade out amidst their successes. Eugenics—” “That wasn’t Eugenics... ...part from miscellaneous popular novels, some veterinary works, a number of comic books, old bound volumes of The Illus- trated London News and a large... ...s- chief comes in. Passion can always contrive to clothe itself in beauty, strips itself splendid. That carried us. But for all its mean associations ...

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...The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Soul of a... ...The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Soul of a Bi... ...N STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portab... ...TATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ... reply. What was there for a bishop to object to? There was that admirable American widow, Lady Sunderbund. She was enor- mously rich, she was enthusi... ... little, he was funny. His prevarications with his wife, for example, were comic. There was no other word for him but “funny.” He rolled back again an... ...The English were indolent, the French decadent, the Russians barbaric, the Americans basely democratic; the rest of the world was the “White man’s Bur... ...ut now think what it means,” he said. “I must leave the church.” “As a man strips off his coat for a fight.” “That doesn’t dismay you?” She shook her ...

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...The First Men In The Moon by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The First Men... ...The First Men In The Moon by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The First Men in... ...ate Electronic Classics Series Publication The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Port... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portabl... ... was very much in my mind, and it had occurred to me that as a sentimental comic character he might serve a useful purpose in the development of my pl... ...merged from the haze of abstruse phrases in which Cavor expressed himself. Comic relief in a play in- deed! It was some time before I would believe th... ... The First Men in the Moon emption. I recalled the old Spanish monopoly in American gold. It wasn’t as though it was just this planet or that—it was a... ...f a whaler might cut up a moored whale. They were cutting off the flesh in strips, and on some of the farther trunks the white ribs were showing. It w... ...at began the century, arising out an announcement by Mr. Nikola Tesla, the American electrical celebrity, that he had received a message from Mars. Hi...

...The History of Mr. Polly by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History o... ...The History of Mr. Polly by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of M... ...ate Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Mr. Polly by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portab... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Mr. Polly by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...mmed with imagi- 10 The History of Mr. Polly nation that the cheap boys’ “comics” of to-day have replaced. At fourteen, when he emerged from the vall... ...ight beds, and this into a third apart- ment with yellow grained paper and American cloth tables, which was the dining-room by day and the men’s sitti... ...p, and behind, in pursuit of contrasted bleakness, he was now hanging long strips of grey silesia and chilly coloured linen dusterings. It was wonderf... ...o have known that woman. At Canterbury, too, he first to his knowledge saw Americans. His shop did a good class trade in Westgate Street, and he would... ...nothing. He went one night to a music hall and developed a vague idea of a comic performance; the comic men seemed violent rowdies and not at all funn...

...War and the Future Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION War and the F... ...War and the Future Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION War and the Futu... ...ES PUBLICATION War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portab... ...PUBLICATION War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...rgely made up for by the good will and generous efforts of the English and American press. An interesting monograph might be written upon these variou... ...ut out a bed of begonias. In Paris I met a charming 50 War and the Future American writer, the wife of a French artist, the lady who wrote My House o... ... world’s affairs so as to make another war improbable. Already these serio-comic T anks, weighing something over twenty tons or so, have gone slitheri... ...an to explain one’s home politics to an intelligent foreigner enquirer; it strips off all the secondary considerations, the allusiveness, the merely t...

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...The Country of the Blind And Other Stories by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Country o... ...The Country of the Blind And Other Stories by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Country of t... ...ssics Series Publication The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portab... ...cs Series Publication The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...m a book. “‘Smiles’ ‘Elp Yourself,’ it’s called,” said Jane; “but it ain’t comic. It tells you how to get on in the world, and some what William read ... ...8 The Country of the Blind on a way of settling him at last. It is a South American dodge. I joined all my fishing-lines together with stems of seawee... ..., the people were supposed to be English and were dressed like fashionable Americans of the current epoch, and I fell into the natural error of suppos... ..., always having her relations and girls from business in, and their chaps. Comic songs a’ Sunday, it was getting to, and driving trade away. And she w... ...pain, no hardship, gashing with knives, splin- ters thrust under my nails, strips of flesh flayed off, all for the glory and honour of God.” God smile...