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  • 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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  • Men Like Gods
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    'Men Like Gods' is a 1922 novel written by H. G. Wells. It features a utopian parallel universe.The hero of the novel, Mr. Barnstaple, is a depressive journalist in the newspaper 'The Liberal.' At the beginning of the story, Mr. Barnstaple, as well as a few other Englishmen, are accidentally transported to the parallel world of Utopia. Utopia is like an advanced Earth, although...
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  • Joan and Peter
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), known by his pen name H. G. Wells, was an English author, best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was an outspoken socialist and a pacifist; his later works becoming increasingly political and didactic. ...
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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 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 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 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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  • 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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  • The Time Machine
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 Pearson’s 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 ...
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    17,95 €

  • 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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  • The War of the Worlds
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  • The Island of Dr. Moreau
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice.Shipwrecked in the south Pacific Ocean, Englishman Edward Prendick awakens aboard a ship where a man named Montgomery and his beastly looking servant were transporting animal cargo. Soon, they arrive on an island and more and more of these bizarre humanlike creatures appear. Pr...
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    12,47 €

  • The Time Machine
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    There are really four dimensions, three which we call the three planes of Space, and a fourth, Time.Book #3 of 20 in the SDE Classics Science Fiction CollectionWhen an English Scientist, known only as the Time Traveller, invents a machine that can travel through time, the most logical outcome would be to test such a machine. After a trial run that saw him travel three  hours in...
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    12,65 €

  • The History of Mr. Polly
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    Alfred Polly lives in the imaginary town of Fishbourne in Kent, England. A miserable Mr. Polly. He hates Foxbourne, he hates Foxbourne High Street, he hates his shop and his wife and his neighbours – every blessed neighbour – and with indescribable bitterness he hates himself. ...
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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 mainta...
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    14,88 €

  • Aepyornis Island
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    Butcher, employed by a collector, is engaged in finding Aepyornis eggs. He is looking for them in a swamp on the east coast of Madagascar, helped by two native assistants in a canoe who are probing the mud with rods. They find several whole eggs but one is dropped, apparently when an assistant is bitten by something. ...
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  • The Star
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    The Star by H. G. WellsIt was on the first day of the New Year that the announcement was made, almost simultaneously from three observatories, that the motion of the planet Neptune, the outermost of all the planets that wheel about the sun, had become very erratic. Ogilvy had already called attention to a suspected retardation in its velocity in December.About H. G. WellsHerber...
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  • A Dream of Armageddon
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    A Dream of ArmageddonThe man with the white face entered the carriage at Rugby. He moved slowly in spite of the urgency of his porter, and even while he was still on the platform I noted how ill he seemed. He dropped into the corner over against me with a sigh, made an incomplete attempt to arrange his travelling shawl, and became motionless, with his eyes staring vacantly. Pre...
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  • The New Accelerator
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    Certainly, if ever a man found a guinea when he was looking for a pin, it is my good friend Professor Gibberne. I have heard before of investigators overshooting the mark, but never quite to the extent that he has done. He has really, this time at any rate, without any touch of exaggeration in the phrase, found something to revolutionise human life. And that when he was simply ...
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  • The Invisible Man
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    A mysterious man, Griffin, arrives at the local inn of the English village of Iping, West Sussex, during a snowstorm. The stranger wears a long-sleeved, thick coat and gloves; his face is hidden entirely by bandages except for a fake pink nose; and he wears a wide-brimmed hat. He is excessively reclusive, irascible, and unfriendly. He demands to be left alone and spends most of...
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  • The Red Room
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    An unnamed protagonist chooses to spend the night in an allegedly haunted room in Lorraine Castle. He intends to disprove the legends surrounding it. Despite vague warnings from the three infirm custodians who reside in the castle, the narrator ascends to the Red Room to begin his night's vigil. ...
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  • The Sleeper Awakes
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    Graham, an Englishman living in London in 1897 takes drugs to cure insomnia and falls into a coma. He wakes up in 2100. He later learns that he has inherited huge wealth and that his money has been put into a trust. Over the years, the trustees, the White Council, have used his wealth to establish a vast political and economic world order. ...
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