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  • The Sleeper Awakes
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    'Trying to cure his insomnia, Londoner Graham falls into a drug-induced coma in 1897… and wakes up 203 years later. He discovers a world in turmoil, a world shocked at his awakening, a world… that he owns.Thus begins H.G. Wells’ classic tale of a man out of time.Thrust into this new world, Graham becomes a symbol both for those who want to keep him as a figure head to maintain ...
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    25,29 €

  • The Country of the Blind
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    “In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king” repeats in Chen Fangyuan’s mind after he finds himself trapped in a valley holding a community of people for whom a disease eliminated their vision many generations before and no longer have a concept of sight. Chen Fangyuan quickly finds that these people have developed their other senses to compensate for their lack of s...
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    16,46 €

  • The Time Machine
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    A compelling science fiction, the Time Machine is a first-hand account of a Time Traveler’s journey into the future. A pull of the lever and the machine sends him to the year 802,701, when humanity has split into two bizarre races-the ethereal Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks. Here, his machine is stolen and with the help of Weena, an Eloi he saved from drowning, the traveler...
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    14,56 €

  • The Door in the Wall and Other Stories
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    Lionel Wallace is a successful politician. He tells his friend Redmond about an even that changed his life forever. As a lonely child of five, he wandered out of his home into the streets of West Kensington in London, where he noticed a green door set in a white wall. Entering the door, he finds himself in an enchanted garden. The garden is filled with happiness and exotic crea...
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    16,70 €

  • The History of Mr. Polly
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    The History of Mr. Polly is a 1910 comic novel by H. G. Wells.The protagonist of The History of Mr. Polly is an antihero inspired by H. G. Wells’s early experiences in the drapery trade: Alfred Polly, born circa 1870, a timid and directionless young man living in Edwardian England, who despite his own bumbling achieves contented serenity with little help from those around him. ...
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    21,96 €

  • A Short History of the World
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    H. G. Wells, who is otherwise popular as a prolific writer of science fiction, was also a keen historian and social commentator. This brilliant book by him is a detailed rendering of Earth’s history spanning from the origins of the Earth to the outcome of the First World War. From the evolution of life and the development of the human race to covering different ages: Neolithic ...
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    25,90 €

  • TALES of SPACE and TIME
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    1. The Crystal Egg, 2. The Star, 3. A Story of the Stone Age, 4. A Story of the Days to Come, 5. The Man Who Could Work Miracles. ...
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    16,56 €

  • A Short History of the world
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    This Short History of The World is meant to be read straightforwardly almost as a novel is read. It gives in the most general way an account of our present knowledge of history, shorn of elaborations and complications. It has been amply illustrated and everything has been done to make it vivid and clear. From it the reader should be able to get that general view of history whic...
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    27,77 €

  • The War of the WORLDS
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    BOOK ONE - THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS : Chapter 1 - The Eve of the War, Chapter 2 - The Falling Star, Chapter 3 - On Horsell Common, Chapter 4 - The Cylinder Opens, Chapter 5 - The Heat-Ray, Chapter 6 - The Heat-Ray in the Chobham Road, Chapter 7 - How I Reached Home, Chapter 8 - Friday Night, Chapter 9 - The Fighting Begins, Chapter 10 - In the Storm, Chapter 11 - At the Windo...
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    16,50 €

  • THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine-leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventures of Mr. Cavor was, after all, the outcome of the purest accident. It might have been any one. I fell into these things at a time when I thought myself removed from the slightest...
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    16,50 €

  • The Island of DOCTOR MOREAU
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
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    14,46 €

  • The door in THE WALL and other stories
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    1. The Door in the Wall, 2. The Star, 3. A Dream of Armageddon, 4. The Cone, 5. A Moonlight Fable, 6. The Diamond Maker, 7. The Lord of the Dynamos, 8. The Country of the Blind. ...
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    14,49 €

  • THE TIME MACHINE
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
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    13,22 €

  • THE INVISIBLE MAN
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    Chapter I - The Strange Man’s Arrival, Chapter II - Mr. Teddy Henfrey’s First Impressions, Chapter III - The Thousand and One Bottles, Chapter IV - Mr. Cuss Interviews the Stranger, Chapter V - The Burglary at the Vicarage, Chapter VI - The Furniture that went Mad, Chapter VII - The Unveiling of the Stranger, Chapter VIII - In Transit, Chapter IX - Mr. Thomas Marvel, Chapter X ...
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    15,52 €

  • The Country of THE BLIND and Other Stories
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    The enterprise of Messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the two series of linked incidents that make up the bulk of the book called Tales of Space and Time, no short story of mine of the slightest merit is excluded ...
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    26,33 €

  • The Time Machine
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
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    15,45 €

  • The Sleeper Awakes & Men Like Gods
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    One man’s hell is another man’s heaven...In these two classic stories from the father of science fiction, H.G. Wells reveals two sides of the same coin: dystopia and utopia.The Sleeper AwakesWhat if you took a sleeping pill and awoke two centuries years later to find yourself the wealthiest man in the world? Everyone and everything you know is long gone ... but you are simultan...
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    21,07 €

  • The War of the Worlds
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first serialised in 1897 by Pearson’s Magazine in the UK and by Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. The novel’s first appearance in hardcover was in 1898 from publisher William Heinemann of London.The War of the Worlds is one of the earliest science-fiction that explores the possibilities of intelligen...
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    15,45 €

  • The Time Machine and other tales
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    An omnibus collection of the early speculative fiction of the godfather of modern science fiction, featuring in particular The Time Machine, the short novel that skyrocketed his long and prolific career. Nineteen short stories and two other novels, including the dark and disturbing Island of Dr. Moreau, comprise this volume of tales that remain as vivid and readable today as wh...
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    31,89 €

  • The Time Machine
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    The Time Machine redefined the science fiction genre to include concepts like spacetime, as well as recent innovations in biology and sociology. H.G. Wells’ text, first published in serial format, became an instant hit, and has since become the centrepiece of not only numerous films and radio plays, but of our very conceptualisation of the future. As Poul Houe notes in his newl...
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    23,43 €

  • The Invisible Man
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    One of H.G. Wells’s masterpieces in science fiction, The Invisible Man follows experimental scientist Griffin who invents a serum designed to make the imbiber invisible. Having tested the potion on himself, Griffin discovers that it does not work exactly as intended and finds himself burdened with a condition for which there is no known remedy.As the voyeuristic reader, we foll...
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    11,75 €

  • The Time Machine
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    'Any real body must have extension in four directions: it must have Length, Breadth, Thickness and Duration. But through a natural infirmity of the flesh, which I will explain to you in a moment, we incline to overlook this fact. There are really four dimensions, three which we call the three planes of Space, and a fourth, Time.' ― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine The Time Machine ...
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    12,97 €

  • El hombre invisible
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    El hombre invisible es una novela de las más afamadas obras de ciencia ficción escrita por H. G. Wells publicada primeramente en 1897 en la revista Pearsons Magazine, y, posteriormente, se editó como novela.En West Sussex, Inglaterra, llega un misterioso forastero vestido con gabardina, máscara, sombrero y gafas que solamente se dedica a realizar experimentos de laboratorio y ú...
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    17,95 €

  • The Island of Doctor Moreau
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), a science-fiction novel by H. G. Wells, recounts the bizarre adventures of Edward Prendick on Doctor Moreau’s island. Prendick, shipwrecked in the Pacific Ocean, is rescued by Doctor Moreau’s assistant, Montgomery. He is taken to the doctor’s island, where he learns that the doctor has been carrying on gruesome experiments on animals. Witness...
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    22,57 €

  • The Time Machine
    H.G. WELLS / H.GWells
    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 the concept of time travel by using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposely and selectively forwards or backwards in time. The term 'time machine', coined by Wells, is now almost universally use...
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    18,37 €

  • The Invisible Man
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    From the twentieth century’s first great practitioner of the novel of ideas comes a consummate masterpiece of science fiction about a man trapped in the terror of his own creation.First published in 1897, The Invisible Man ranks as one of the most famous scientific fantasies ever written. Part of a series of pseudoscientific romances written by H. G. Wells (1866-1946) early in ...
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    25,01 €

  • The Invisible Man
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    The Invisible Man is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. Originally serialized in Pearson's Weekly in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and invents a way to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it neither absorbs nor reflects light...
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    7,80 €

  • La guerra de los mundos
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    La guerra de los mundos, publicada en 1898, es la primera novela que describe una invasión alienígena de la Tierra, un tema recurrente desde entonces en el que posteriormente se han basado numerosos libros y películas. En ella, H. G. Wells describe cómo la llegada de habitantes de Marte pone a prueba a una humanidad ingenua que tendrá que organizarse para evitar la destrucción ...
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    17,95 €

  • La máquina del tiempo
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    Como una de las obras iniciadoras de la ciencia ficción, La máquina del tiempo (1895) sigue conservando el mismo poder de fascinación y fuerza narrativa que le valieron el éxito inmediato en el momento de su publicación.La obra sintetiza los conocimientos científicos del autor, quien influido por los conceptos relacionados con el maquinismo, que causaban furor en la época, dibu...
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    17,95 €

  • The Invisible Man
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
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    13,07 €


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