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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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    13,83 €

  • 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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    20,36 €

  • The World Set Free
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    The history of mankind is the history of the attainment of external power. Man is the tool-using, fire-making animal. From the outset of his terrestrial career we find him supplementing the natural strength and bodily weapons of a beast by the heat of burning and the rough implement of stone. So he passed beyond the ape. From that he expands. ...
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    20,45 €

  • The Door in the Wall
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    The Door in the Wall by H. G. Wells. One confidential evening, not three months ago, Lionel Wallace told me this story of the Door in the Wall. And at the time I thought that so far as he was concerned it was a true story.. ...
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    13,99 €

  • The Time Machine
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    An English scientist and gentleman inventor living in Victorian England reveals to his weekly dinner guests that time is simply a fourth dimension, and his demonstration of a tabletop model machine for travelling through it. He has built a machine capable of carrying a person through time, and returns at dinner the following week to recount a remarkable tale. ...
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    18,91 €

  • The Island of Doctor Moreau
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    Edward Prendick, an Englishman with a scientific education survives a shipwreck in the southern Pacific Ocean. A passing ship takes him aboard, and a man named Montgomery revives him. Prendick also meets a grotesque bestial native named M'ling, who appears to be Montgomery's manservant. The ship is transporting a number of animals which belong to Montgomery. As they app...
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    12,13 €

  • The War of the Worlds
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    The War of the Worlds presents itself as a factual account of the Martian invasion. The narrator is a middle-class writer of philosophical papers. Following explosions seen on the surface of planet Mars, creating much interest in the scientific community, a meteor lands on Horsell Common, near the unnamed narrator's home in Woking, Surrey. He is among the first to discover ...
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    20,39 €

  • The Invisible Man
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand. He was wrapped up from head to foot, and the brim of his soft felt hat hid every inch of his face but the shiny tip of his nose;...
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    20,39 €

  • The War of the Worlds
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    Mankind finds itself in a fight for its very survival when invaders from Mars land on Earth. Using their vastly superior technology the Martians make short order of all the great powers of Earth, laying waste to everything in their path. The novel follows an unnamed man as he flees for his life while trying to locate his wife in the shattered ruins of Earth. Powerful and insigh...
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    28,01 €

  • A Modern Utopia
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    'A Modern Utopia is one of H.G. Wells’ explorations of social problems set in the form of a novel, but it is more a complex investigation of what might be than a mere fictional story.The unnamed narrator and a traveling companion find themselves on a parallel Earth, where the geology, biology, and very people are duplicates of those we know. They differ, however, in their outlo...
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    23,85 €

  • New Worlds for Old
    H G. 1866-1946 Wells / H G1866-1946 Wells
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important ...
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    23,69 €

  • The Invisible Man
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells / William Schlichter
    When a mysterious stranger, wrapped in bandages arrives at an inn in the English village of Iping, the lives of everyone will be changed forever.Griffin is a young scientist who, upon discovering the key to invisibility, must live in his own personal hell, where every moment is another experiment, and every experiment brings a new failure as he tries to reverse the effects. As ...
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    10,80 €

  • The Very Best Of H.G Wells
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    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 his short stories, written when he was a young man embarking on a literary career, that he first explored the enormous potential of the scientific discoveries of the day He described his stories as 'a miscellany of invention...
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    19,79 €

  • The War of the Worlds
    H. G. Wells
    ?Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.? First serialized by Pearson?s Magazine in 1897, The War of the Worlds is an enduring science-fiction classic by H.G. Wells. It is a first-person account, relayed by an unnamed South England protagonist. The novel opens by narrating, how, as humans on Earth busy themselves in their work in the mid-1890s, Southern ...
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    17,76 €

  • The War of the Worlds (World Classics, Unabridged)
    H. G. Wells
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    7,29 €

  • The Island of Doctor Moreau
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    Filmed numerous times, The Island of Doctor Moreau remains one of H. G. Wells’ best-known novels. The story tells of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat who is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a reclusive genius who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection. The novel deals with a number of philosophical themes, including pa...
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    10,51 €

  • The Island of Doctor Moreau
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    Filmed numerous times, The Island of Doctor Moreau remains one of H. G. Wells’ best-known novels. The story tells of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat who is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a reclusive genius who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection. The novel deals with a number of philosophical themes, including pa...
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    28,58 €

  • The War of the Worlds / La Guerre des Mondes
    H. G. Wells / Henry-D. Davray (Translator) / Henry-DDavray (Translator) / HGWells / James Ward (Editor)
    H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds is a work of creative genius, and in many respects we are still living today in the imaginative landscape that Wells shaped in this classic of early science fiction.This parallel text edition of The War of the Worlds will provide both a stimulating subject and simple reading pleasure for students of either French or English, and it will also b...
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    34,75 €

  • The Open Conspiracy
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    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 world "politically, socially and economically unified" is emerging am...
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    9,21 €

  • The Time Machine
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    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 it seems. Beautiful little people play and laugh among wonderful flowers and palaces above ground. But the Earth covers some frightening surprises... ...
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    28,78 €

  • The Time Machine
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    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 it seems. Beautiful little people play and laugh among wonderful flowers and palaces above ground. But the Earth covers some frightening surprises... ...
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    8,84 €

  • The Time Machine
    H.G. WELLS / H.GWells
    1898 Romance, Dystopian Science FictionI think that at that time none of us quite believed in the Time Machine. The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness. Had Filby shown the model and explained t...
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    13,97 €

  • The Sleeper Awakes
    H.G. WELLS / H.GWells
    Dystopian Science Fiction, Alternate History'Is it true indeed, that I have been asleep two hundred-?' asked Graham.'They have told you that, have they? Two hundred and three, as a matter of fact.'Graham accepted the indisputable now with raised eyebrows and depressed mouth. He sat silent for a moment, and then asked a question, 'Is there a mill or dynamo near here?' He did not...
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    20,85 €

  • The War of the Worlds
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    Written between 1895 and 1897, H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds is one of the earliest stories that detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. Filmed numerous times, this science fiction classic retains its power to disturb readers more than a century later. ...
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    12,66 €

  • The War of the Worlds
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    Written between 1895 and 1897, H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds is one of the earliest stories that detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. Filmed numerous times, this science fiction classic retains its power to disturb readers more than a century later. ...
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    33,30 €

  • The Invisible Man
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    First published in 1897, The Invisible Man is one of the first science fiction stories. The disturbing tale centers on Griffin, a scientist who has discovered the means to make himself invisible. His initial, almost comedic, adventures are soon overshadowed by the bizarre streak of terror he unleashes upon the inhabitants of a small village. Notable for its sheer invention, sus...
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    11,43 €

  • The Invisible Man
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    First published in 1897, The Invisible Man is one of the first science fiction stories. The disturbing tale centers on Griffin, a scientist who has discovered the means to make himself invisible. His initial, almost comedic, adventures are soon overshadowed by the bizarre streak of terror he unleashes upon the inhabitants of a small village. Notable for its sheer invention, sus...
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    31,23 €

  • The Time Machine (World Classics, Unabridged)
    H G WELLS
    When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year a.d. 802,701, 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 realizes that these beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture—now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. They ...
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    5,69 €

  • The War of the Worlds Collection
    Bayne MacGregor / H G Wells / Tony Wright
    A collection of stories and artwork inspired by H G Wells' classic, including the original The War of the Worlds, The Crystal Egg , The War of the Worlds: Aftermath, The Martian and the Raven and beautiful original artwork throughout. ...
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    46,34 €

  • 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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    12,88 €


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