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A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics
A Modern Utopia is a classic science fiction novel by H.G. Wells. Because of the complexity and sophistication of its narrative structure, H.G. Wells's A Modern Utopia (1905) has been called not so much a modern as a postmodern utopia. The novel is best known for its notion that a voluntary order of nob ...Show more
Classic Tales of Science Fiction & Fantasy (Leatherbound Classics) by Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jack London, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Speculative Fiction | Series: Leather-Bound Classics Ser.
Blast off into the unknown with this collection of ten classical works of science fiction and fantasy. Long before we ventured into outer space or explored the most remote regions of the planet, writers have spun stories of what might lie in those unknown worlds, or what awaits humanity in the futur ...Show more
First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to Kent to write a play, he encounters Dr Cavor, an absent-minded scientist who has invented a material that counteracts gravity. This discovery enables the two men to set off on a fantastic journey to the Moon. But they are not prepared for what they find ...Show more
Island of Doctor Moreau and Other Stories by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Emily Alder, Lecturer in Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University 'Each time I dip a living creature into the bath of burning pain, I say: this time I will burn out all the animal, this time I will make a rational creature of my own!' declares Doctor Mo ...Show more
Kipps and the History of MR Polly by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
These comic novels will resonate with anyone who has ever felt trapped by circumstance. Their central characters, Artie Kipps and Alfred Polly, are prisoners of their modest social class, limited education, dull work, and sterile relationships. In Wells' hands they break out of the cages that society ...Show more
Last Books of H. G. Wells, The - A Dream of Life and Mind at the End of Its Tether by WELLS, H G
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Category: Classics
This volume contains the two last works by HG Wells. Nearing the end of his life, increasingly distressed over the war, Wells deals with death and apocalypse, mortality and religion, and with "human insufficiency." Mind at the End of its Tether "One approaches it with awe. You come across references to ...Show more
SF Masterworks: The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: S. F. Masterworks
'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...' So begins H. G. Wells' classic novel in which Martian lifeforms take over planet Earth. As the Martians emerge, they construct giant killin ...Show more
The Crystal Egg and Other Stories by H. G. Wells
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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 Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: Gothic Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A fantastic masterpiece of mystery and science fiction. The mysterious recluse Mr Griffin wanders into town, keeping his whole body hidden and shutting himself away with his scientific equipment. So begins another incredible tour de force by the master of science fiction H.G. Wells. When the village is ...Show more
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics
The Invisible Man stands out as possessing one of the most complicated heroes, or perhaps anti-heroes, in literature. Griffin is not a naïve dreamer such as Moreau’s Pendick or a hapless victim of circumstances like the unnamed narrator of The War of the Worlds. He is a man of great genius and great fau ...Show more
The Invisible Man - A Grotesque Romance by H. G. Wells; Arthur C. Clarke (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Bantam Classics Ser.
So he lapses into a dream, the undying wonderful dream of his life. And though Kemp has fished unceasingly, no human being save the landlord knows those books are there, with the subtle secret of invisibility and a dozen other strange secrets written therein. And none other will know of them until he di ...Show more
The Invisible Man: Popular Penguins by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin, the new guest at The Coach and Horses, is at first assumed to be a shy accident-victim. But the true reason for his disguise is far more chilling: he has developed a process that has made ...Show more