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H.G. Wells
The classic tale of an alien invasion of Earth from the pen of the father of modern SF, with an introduction by Adam Roberts.
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Yet across the gulf of space, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. Then, late one…
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H.G. Wells' terrifying tale of science run amok, with an introduction by Adam Roberts.
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A new SF Masterwork edition of H. G. Wells’ classic time-travel story, with an introduction by Gwyneth Jones.
Wells’s masterpiece still retains its power to provoke and enthral. In the Time Traveller’s miraculous new machine, we will be carried from a Victorian dinner table to 802,701 AD, when…
Claire Tomalin
A fascinating journey into the early life of H.G. Wells, from one of Britain’s best biographers
How did the first forty years of H. G. Wells’ life shape the father…
W. Warren Wagar
A look inside one of the greatest minds of the 20th century.
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Writings include The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds and The Invisible Man. Volume covers the period 1895-1940. Extras: Appendices list additional critical articles and a full chronology of…
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Kenneth Young
In this 1974 study, Kenneth Young reviews H. G. Wells’s development first as a creator of scientific romances, then as a writer of semi-autobiographical fiction, and finally as a publicist…
This volume covers novelist H.G. Wells, whose writings include The Time Machine , The War of the Worlds and The Invisible Man . The volume covers the period 1895-1940 and…
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Do you believe in ghosts? Not monsters, not floating objects or unexplained coincidences, but an actual presence. This book collects Victorian ghost stories, from Charles Dickens’ The Signalman to M…
H.G Wells
Herbert George Wells was perhaps best known as the author of such classic works of science fiction as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds. But it was in…
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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…
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Greatest Works of H.G. Wells (Deluxe Hardbound Edition) showcases the remarkable literary genius of H.G. Wells, a pioneer of science fiction and visionary storytelling. Immerse yourself in a collection of…
The Invisible Man is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells published in 1897.The novel depicts the life of a scientist named Griffin who has gone mad. Having learned…
Part of the Everyman series, which includes a themed introduction, a chronology, a plot summary and reading list. This novel recounts the social ascent of a shop assistant and his…
The classic space travel novel rejoins the Masterworks list with an introduction by Lisa Tuttle.
Part of the Everyman series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times…
Part of the Everyman series which has been re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type, this book includes an introduction and comprehensive notes.
A dazzling mind and driving ambition has carried Griffin into territory never before explored: he has discovered how to make himself invisible. What sacrifice now can be too great? Yet…
This book covers the author’s conception of God aside from any religion. Any man or woman who accepts God’s love as one person connecting to their own creator, is fine…
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable…
This annotation-friendly edition of H.G. Wells’ classic tale has: - large spacing between lines, wide margins and blank pages at the end of each chapter for note-taking.
First published in 1895, The Time Machine follows the adventures of a Victorian time traveler who journeys into the future to discover a strange society in which nothing is what…
The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 and written as a frame narrative. The work is generally credited with the popularization of…
When strange disks begin to land on Earth, most humans view this event with complacency. That is, until the contents inside the disks come alive, destroying everything in their path…
Originally published in December 1897, 'The War of the Worlds' is an early thrilling science fiction novel by H.G. Wells, an English writer.
The novel begins with humans watching the…
H. G. Wells wrote a scientific romance titled The First Men in the Moon. It was a "great story," according to Wells. In the book, a businessman and an eccentric…
The science fiction novel The Invisible Man was written by H. G. Wells. Griffin is an optics researcher who develops a mechanism to change a body's refractive index to that…
H. G. Wells wrote and published the book, Ann Veronica a modern love story in 1909. It talks of Ann Veronica Stanley's uprising against her middle-class father's strict patriarchal control…
In H. G. Wells' science fiction book In the Days of the Comet (1906), when a comet forces ""the nitrogen of the air, the ancient azote,"" to ""transform out of…
English author H. G. Wells created Little Wars, a set of guidelines for using toy soldiers, in 1913. Simple rules for miniature wargaming were supplied in the book Little Wars…
Science fiction author H. G. Wells wrote a book titled The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth. In Book I, two new characters are introduced: Professor…
What is Coming?, a classic book first published in 1916, contains the futuristic theories and conceptions of H. G. Wells about the signs of things to come following the World…
The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian novel written by H. G. Wells, it tells the story of a man, Graham, an Englishman, living in London who falls asleep in the…
"The Country of the Blind" is a short story by H.G. Wells about a mountaineer named Nunez who stumbles upon a remote valley. The valley is cut off from the…
H.G. Wells composed the anthology 'The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents, ' featuring a compilation of fifteen stories encompassing various genres from thrilling science fiction to chilling horror tales. Every…
The War of the Worlds' is a prominent science fiction novel that was published in the year 1897 by English author H. G. Wells. The anonymity of the narrator gives…
A convincing sci-fi, The 'Time Machine is a direct record of a Time Traveler's excursion into the future. The lever gets pulled and the machine sends him to the year…
H.G. Wells’s novel is put in its varied scientific, literary, and political contexts in this new edition.
A shipwrecked man finds himself, after various twists of Fate, on a lonely tropical island. From a locked enclosure the cries of animals in pain can be heard, and there…
Complete text of The Invisible Man plus 17 short stories, including The Crystal Egg, Aepyornis Island, The Strange Orchid, The Man Who Could Work Miracles, and A Dream of Armageddon.
An English inventor has created an incredible machine which has the ability to hurtle through time. With no idea what to expect, the time traveller sets out on an epic…
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