The World Set Free

By H.G. Wells

Release Date: 1914-01-01
Genre: Fiction & Literature

Score: 4

From 173 Ratings

Description

The World Set Free is a novel written in 1913 and published in 1914 by H. G. Wells. [1] The book is based on a prediction of nuclear weapons of a more destructive and uncontrollable sort than the world has yet seen. [2][3][4] It had appeared first in serialised form with a different ending as A Prophetic Trilogy, consisting of three books: A Trap to Catch the Sun, The Last War in the World and The World Set Free.

More by H.G. Wells

The Time Machine

H.G. Wells
4
The War of the Worlds

H.G. Wells
4
The Invisible Man

H.G. Wells
4
The Time Machine

H.G. Wells
4.5
The World Set Free

H.G. Wells
4
The Island of Doctor Moreau

H.G. Wells
4.5
The Invisible Man

H.G. Wells
4
A Short History of the World

H.G. Wells
3.5
The War of the Worlds

H.G. Wells
4.5
Tales of Space and Time

H.G. Wells
4
The invisible man

H.G. Wells
4.5
Short Stories

H.G. Wells
3.5
The Crystal Egg (With Audio)

H.G. Wells
3.5
The Time Machine

H.G. Wells
4.5
The First Men in the Moon

H.G. Wells
4
The war of the worlds

H.G. Wells
4.5
The Sea Lady

H.G. Wells
3.5
Marriage

H.G. Wells
3
The War of the Worlds Audio Edition

H.G. Wells
4
The Sleeper Awakes

H.G. Wells
4
The Invisible Man

H.G. Wells
4
The time machine

H.G. Wells
4
The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth

H.G. Wells
4
The Red Room

H.G. Wells
3.5
100 Greatest Books

Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, William Shakespeare, Aldous Huxley, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Mark Twain, L.M. Montgomery, A. A. Milne, Alexandre Dumas, Leo Tolstoy, Kurt Vonnegut, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anna Sewell, Miguel de Cervantes, Herman Melville, L. Frank Baum, Jack London, Dante Alighieri, Joseph Conrad, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, H.G. Wells, Franz Kafka, The Brothers Grimm, Lewis Carroll, Louisa May Alcott, John Steinbeck, Emily Bronte, Oscar Wilde, Hermann Hesse & Niccolò Machiavelli
3
The War in the Air

H.G. Wells
4
The Time Machine

H.G. Wells
3.5
The Salvaging Of Civilisation

H.G. Wells
Science Fiction Stories

Philip K. Dick, H.G. Wells, Kurt Vonnegut, Randall Garrett, Jack London, Isaac Asimov, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ayn Rand & Rudyard Kipling
3.5
War of the Worlds

H.G. Wells
3.5
The Wonderful Visit

H.G. Wells
4
The Door in the Wall and Other Stories

H.G. Wells
4.5
When the Sleeper Wakes

H.G. Wells
3.5
In the Days of the Comet

H.G. Wells
3.5
The New Machiavelli

H.G. Wells
5
The Time Machine: Audio Edition

H.G. Wells
4
100 Greatest Books

Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, James Joyce, Kenneth Grahame, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Jules Verne, J.M. Barrie, Gustave Flaubert, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, Theodore Dreiser, Nikolai Gogol, Émile Zola, Wilkie Collins, W. Somerset Maugham, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Rudyard Kipling, Daniel Defoe, E. M. Forster, Edith Wharton, Henry Fielding, Victor Hugo, Robert Louis Stevenson, H.G. Wells, D. H. Lawrence, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Homer, Voltaire, Johanna Spyri, Ivan Turgenev, Samuel Richardson, Honoré de Balzac, William Faulkner & Oscar Wilde
4
50 Classic Science Fiction Works: Volume One

Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Edward Bellamy, G. K. Chesterton, Isaac Asimov, Edgar Rice Burroughs & George Allan England
3.5
H.G. Wells: The Short Story Collection

H.G. Wells
4.5
The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories

H.G. Wells
4.5
H. G. Wells: Classics Novels and Short Stories

H.G. Wells
The War of the Worlds

H.G. Wells
4
50 Classic Books, Vol. 2

Mark Twain, Thomas Paine, Leo Tolstoy, Lew Wallace, George MacDonald, H.G. Wells, Upton Sinclair, Jack London, Herman Melville & Wilkie Collins
3.5
50 Great Authors

Agatha Christie, Ernest Hemingway, Ayn Rand, Isaac Asimov, Kurt Vonnegut, D. H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. M. Forster, Oscar Wilde, Alexandre Dumas, Anna Sewell, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Daniel Defoe, Dante Alighieri, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Émile Zola, Emily Bronte, Franz Kafka, Frederick Douglass, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, George Bernard Shaw, George Eliot, Gustave Flaubert, H.G. Wells, Henrik Ibsen, Henry Fielding, Herman Melville, Hermann Hesse, Homer, James Joyce, Jane Austen, Johanna Spyri, Jonathan Swift, Joseph Conrad, Jules Verne, Kenneth Grahame, L. M. Montgomery, Lewis Carroll, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Mary Shelley, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sinclair Lewis, Stendhal, Victor Hugo, Virginia Woolf, Voltaire, William Faulkner & William Shakespeare
Little Wars; a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books.

H.G. Wells
4
When the Sleeper Wakes

H.G. Wells
4
God the Invisible King

H.G. Wells
Ann Veronica, a modern love story

H.G. Wells
4
Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata

H.G. Wells
The Invisible Man

H.G. Wells & Cynthia Khoury
4.5

By H.G. Wells

Description

More by H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

Philip K. Dick, H.G. Wells, Kurt Vonnegut, Randall Garrett, Jack London, Isaac Asimov, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ayn Rand & Rudyard Kipling

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Edward Bellamy, G. K. Chesterton, Isaac Asimov, Edgar Rice Burroughs & George Allan England

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

Mark Twain, Thomas Paine, Leo Tolstoy, Lew Wallace, George MacDonald, H.G. Wells, Upton Sinclair, Jack London, Herman Melville & Wilkie Collins

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells & Cynthia Khoury