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The Island of Doctor Moreau (pocket Penguin) by H. G. Wells
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'The eyes that glanced at me shone with a pale-green light' A crazed vivisectionist engineers a new super-breed of monstrous 'Beast Men' on a remote Pacific island, in H. G. Wells's Victorian scientific nightmare of man playing god. Ten new titles in the colourful, small-format, portable new Pocket Peng ...Show more
The Open Conspiracy - Blue Prints for a World Revolution by H. G. Wells
$26.00 AUD
Category: Classics
Exact facsimile of 1928 Edition. The book is, in Wells's words, a "scheme to thrust forward and establish a human control over the destinies of life and liberate it from its present dangers, uncertainties and miseries." It proposes that largely as the result of scientific progress, a common vision of a ...Show more
The Sea Raiders : Little Black Classic by H. G. Wells
$2.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
"...slowly uncoiling their tentacles...and making a soft purring sound to each other." This is a disgusting account of a school of giant squid attacking a seaside resort, and two other examples of Wells' extraordinary imagination at work - 'The Magic Shop' and 'The Land Ironclads'. This is one of 46 new ...Show more
The Shape Of Things To Come by H. G. Wells
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics
When Dr Philip Raven, an intellectual working for the League of Nations, dies in 1930 he leaves behind a powerful legacy an unpublished dream book'. Inspired by visions he has experienced for many years, it appears to be a book written far into the future: a history of humanity from the date of his deat ...Show more
The Shape of Things to Come by H.G. Wells
$24.98 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
When a diplomat dies in the 1930s, he leaves behind a book of 'dream visions' he has been experiencing, detailing events that will occur on Earth for the next two hundred years. This fictional 'account of the future' (similar to LAST AND FIRST MEN by Olaf Stapledon) proved prescient in many ways, as Wel ...Show more
The Shape of Things to Come [SF Masterworks] by H. G. Wells
$23.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: S.f. Masterworks
When a diplomat dies in the 1930s, he leaves behind a book of 'dream visions' he has been experiencing, detailing events that will occur on Earth for the next two hundred years. This fictional 'account of the future' (similar to LAST AND FIRST MEN by Olaf Stapledon) proved prescient in many ways, as Wel ...Show more
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
$16.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
H.G. Wells's classic tale of time travel and adventure that raises profound questions about progress and social order.Late in the nineteenth century, a Victorian scientist shows his disbelieving dinner guests a device he claims is a Time Machine. Respectable London scarcely has the imagination to cope w ...Show more
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
$14.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: Pan 70th Anniversary
A special edition of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells reissued with a bright retro design to celebrate Pan's 70th anniversary. A brilliant scientist constructs a machine, which, with the pull of a lever, propels him to the year AD 802,701. The time traveller finds himself on an idyllic Earth inhabited by ...Show more
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, H. G. Wells
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells 'Great shapes like big machines rose out of the dimness, and cast grotesque black shadows, in which dim spectral Morlocks sheltered from the glare' Chilling, prophetic and hugely influential, The Time Machine sees a Victorian scienti ...Show more
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
$14.95 AUD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that this beautiful people are simply remnants o ...Show more
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
$14.95 AUD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that this beautiful people are simply remnants o ...Show more
The Time Machine: Popular Penguins by H. G. Wells
$9.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Popular Penguins
A Victorian scientist propels himself into the future. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that this beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture - now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. They have reason to be afraid: in tunnels bene ...Show more