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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
A Short History of the World by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Of the more than one hundred books that H. G. Wells published in his lifetime, this is one of the most ambitious. Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of World War I, A Short History of the World is an engrossing account of the evolution of life and the development of the human race. Wells b ...Show more
Christina Alberta's Father by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: General Adult
In the months following his wife's death, Mr. Preemby, a retired laundryman becomes convinced that he is the incarnation of Sargon, the ancient king of Sumeria, returned to save a world upturned by the First World War. Trying to make sense of Mr Preemby is his stepdaughter, Christina Alberta. A mastercl ...Show more
Classics Illustrated: The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
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Category: Children's & YA
A full-colour graphic novel adaptation of H.G. Wells' story of a brilliant young scientist who impetuously experiments upon himself, and then becomes invisible and mad, imprisoned in a nightmare of his own making. A spellbinding and unforgettable fantasy, it also provides a lesson in the calamity that ...Show more
First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells
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Category: Fiction | 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
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
Mr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: General Adult
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
Rights of Man by H. G. Wells & Ali Smith (intr.)
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Category: Classics
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
SF Masterworks: The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
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Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | 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
Slip Under the Microscope : Little Black Classic by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics 77 | Reading Level: very good
'I will go in, out of this dust and heat, out of this dry glitter of vanity, out of these toilsome futilities. I will go and never return.' Three disturbing, mysterious and moving stories from Wells, science-fiction pioneer. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little ...Show more
The Country of the Blind by H.G. Wells
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Category: Display & Gift | Series: Pocket Penguins 70's S.
These three stories have all Wells' customary inventiveness, wit and twists in tale that have kept his writing startling and new for over a century.