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Men Like Gods by H G Wells
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Welcome to Utopia. When Mr. Barnstaple, an Earthling, is accidentally transported to Utopia with a group of others, he begins an adventure that will change how he views the world forever. Utopia has no governmen ...Show more
Men Like Gods by H. G. Wells
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions
Men Like Gods by H. G. Wells Mr Barnstaple was ever such a careful driver, careful to indicate before every manoeuvre and very much in favour of slowing down at the slightest hint of difficulty. So however could he have got the car into a skid on a bend on the Maidenhead road? When he recovered himself ...Show more
Mr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island by H. G. Wells
Category: Classics
Being the Story of a Gentleman of Culture and Refinement who suffered Shipwreck and saw no Human Beings otherthan Cruel and Savage Cannibals for several years. How he beheld Megatheria alive and made some notes of theirHabits. How he became a Sacred Lunatic. How he did at last escape in a Strange Manner ...Show more
Mr Britling Sees it Through by WELLS, H G
Category: Classics | Series: Casemate Classic War Fiction
Novel set in WWI Britain; Mr Britling as a writer whose family is caught up in events of the war, and he must re-examine his beliefs and world view. A profound and very human account of the early years of the war, told from the perspective of a father rather than combatants, but no less revealing. Mr Br ...Show more
Rights of Man by H. G. Wells & Ali Smith (intr.)
Category: Non-Fiction
H. G. Wells' revolutionary human rights manifesto is reissued by Penguin with a new introduction by fellow novelist and human rights campaigner Ali Smith 'Penguin and Pelican Specials are books of topical importance published within as short a time as possible from receipt of the manuscript. Some are r ...Show more
Selected Works of H G Wells by H. G. Wells
Category: Classics | Series: Special Editions
H. G. Wells is often referred to as 'the father of science fiction' and this compendium of his stories contains two of his most well-known works in the genre, The Time Machine (1895) and The War of the Worlds (1897). In addition, the reader is treated to some stories of truly extraordinary dimensions: T ...Show more
Selected Works of H. G. Wells (Word Cloud Classics) by H. G. Wells
Category: Fiction | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
Three captivating novels from a pioneer in the genre of science fiction: The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War in the Air. The stories of H. G. Wells have engrossed readers for more than a century by incorporating fantastic, otherworldly elements into the lives of ordinary people. Selected Wo ...Show more
The Crystal Egg and Other Stories by H. G. Wells
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
This volume contains a generous selection of the tales of H. G. Wells, some of them famous, some forgotten. They demonstrate his immense imaginative energy, his originality, his prophetic genius, and his mastery of a range embracing Gothic horror, social satire, lyrical reverie and Utopian fantasy. Here ...Show more
The First Men In The Moon by H.G. Wells
Category: Classics
When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance the brilliant Dr Cavor, an absent-minded scientist on the brink of developing a material that blocks gravity. Cavor soon succeeds in his experiments, only to tell a stunned Bedford the invention makes po ...Show more
The Great Science Fiction: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Short Stories by H. G. Wells
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's' Exploring the primordial nightmares that lurk within humanity's dreams of progress and technology, H. G. Wells was a science fiction pioneer. ...Show more