LIBROS DEL AUTOR: hgwells

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  • The Time Machine (Annotated Keynote Classics)
    H. G. Wells / HGWells / J. D. White / JDWhite / Michelle M. White / Michelle MWhite
    'For an indefinite time I clung to the machine as it swayed and vibrated, quite unheeding how I went, and when I brought myself to look at the dials again I was amazed to find where I had arrived.'Embark on a journey hundreds of thousands of years into the future on a homemade time machine! The Time Traveler discovers what he first perceives as a perfect pastoral landscape inha...
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    12,07 €

  • The Invisible Man
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    From four-time nominee of the Nobel Prize in Literature, The Invisible Man is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells considered to be influential in helping to establish Wells’ status as the 'father of science fiction.' Wells was an influential social critic with an eye for the future. He wrote many novels and short stories that made commentary on what society would be like in ...
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    20,56 €

  • The Time Machine
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    “Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.” ― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine“We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow.” ― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine“Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!” ― H. G. ...
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    16,93 €

  • The War of the Worlds
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    Written by the four-time nominee of the Nobel Prize in Literature, The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells is known as one of the earliest stories to depict conflict between the human race and an extraterrestrial race. H. G. Wells, praised as the father of science fiction, was an influential social critic who focused on the future. During his lifetime, he wrote dozens of novels an...
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    21,56 €

  • The Island of Doctor Moreau
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    The Island of Doctor Moreau is a science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells. He was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary. Together with Jules Verne, Wells has been referred to as "The Father of Science Fiction". ...
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    28,37 €

  • In the Days of the Comet
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    In the Days of the Comet is a 1906 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells in which the vapors of a comet are used as a device which brings about a profound and lasting transformation in the attitudes and perspectives of humankind. (wikipedia.org)  ...
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    28,25 €

  • Men Like Gods
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    Men Like Gods is a novel written in 1923 by H. G. Wells. It features a utopian parallel universe. Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing text b...
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    30,62 €

  • The Time Machine with 'The Star'
    H. G. Wells / HGWells / TBD
    Includes The New York Times article on the obituary Wells wrote for himself in 1936, ten years before his death, and a detailed biographical timeline.In Victorian England a gentleman inventor identified simply as the Time Traveller tells a dinner tale of his journey to 802,701 A.D. where the world is populated by the peaceful if apathetic Eloi, a society of childlike adults, an...
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    7,38 €

  • The World Set Free
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, satire, biography, and autobiography, and even including two books on recreational war games. He is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called a "father of science fi...
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    17,69 €

  • The World Set Free
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, satire, biography, and autobiography, and even including two books on recreational war games. He is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called a "father of science fi...
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    28,33 €

  • The Dream
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    Sarnac may have become a successful scientist, a leading light in the research of chemical reactions of cells, but he would never forget the dream. It was a dream he had had as a young child, a dream that was both beautiful and terrifying; frighteningly real and marvellously imaginary. And as Sarnac looks back on his childhood, he finds the world of his dreams and the reality h...
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    20,06 €

  • The Dream
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    Sarnac may have become a successful scientist, a leading light in the research of chemical reactions of cells, but he would never forget the dream. It was a dream he had had as a young child, a dream that was both beautiful and terrifying; frighteningly real and marvellously imaginary. And as Sarnac looks back on his childhood, he finds the world of his dreams and the reality h...
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    14,88 €

  • The Island of Doctor Moreau
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat who is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection. The novel deals with a number of philosophical themes...
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    11,51 €

  • The Island of Doctor Moreau
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, satire, biography, and autobiography, and even including two books on recreational war games. He is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called a "father of science fi...
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    16,44 €

  • The Island of Doctor Moreau
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, satire, biography, and autobiography, and even including two books on recreational war games. He is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called a "father of science fi...
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    28,38 €

  • The Time Machine
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    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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    17,34 €

  • The War in the Air
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    “An extraordinary concoction—as if H. G. had shaken up Kipps and The War of the Worlds and poured out a new story that would appeal both to those who liked his social comedies and those who had been impressed by his early fantasies of terror.” —Norman and Jeanne Mackenzie, H. G. Wells: A BiographyNothing ever changes in Bun Hill, the simple country town where Bert Smallways liv...
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    22,46 €

  • Men Like Gods
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    Barnstaple, a burnt out journalist, decides to go on holiday and leave the rat race behind. He leaves his family at home and hits the road. His car along with several others are miraculous transported 3,000 years into an alternate future. The world he lands in, a veritable utopia, has a history very much like his own but for small details. Mankind has left behind its government...
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    27,82 €

  • Men Like Gods
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    Barnstaple, a burnt out journalist, decides to go on holiday and leave the rat race behind. He leaves his family at home and hits the road. His car along with several others are miraculous transported 3,000 years into an alternate future. The world he lands in, a veritable utopia, has a history very much like his own but for small details. Mankind has left behind its government...
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    14,80 €

  • The Invisible Man
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
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    21,24 €

  • The Invisible Man
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
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    13,16 €

  • The War of the Worlds
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
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    22,63 €

  • The War of the Worlds
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
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    14,56 €

  • The Time Machine
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine" launched the science fiction genre.  Over time, it has been adapted into different formats, and with each adaptation, changes from the original had to be made.  Sometimes it is nice to see how things all began, without all of the alterations made in later editions or in film adaptations. This edition is the one as Wells himself wrote it for th...
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    19,51 €

  • The War of the Worlds
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
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    22,47 €

  • The War of the Worlds
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
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    14,48 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 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 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 €