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When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the aliens traverse the country in huge three-legged machines, incinerating all in their path...

The new paperback series- Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells 'Great shapes like big machines rose out of the dimness,...

Rediscover H.G. Wells - what does he mean to you? With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin -...

Author: H.G. Wells Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 THE INVISIBLE MAN tells the story of Griffin, a brilliant and obsessed scientist dedicated to achieving invisibility. Taking whatever action is...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis collection presents the imaginative breadth of H.G. Wells, a master of speculative fiction. Within...

A stunning clothbound edition of Wells' science-fiction classic Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in...

Author: H.G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 THE INVISIBLE MAN tells the story of Griffin, a brilliant and obsessed scientist dedicated to achieving invisibility. Taking whatever...

A compelling blend of philosophical discussion and imaginative narrative While walking in the Swiss Alps, two English travellers fall into a space-warp, and suddenly find themselves in another world. In...

A Victorian scientist propels himself into the future. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realizes that this beautiful people are simply remnants...

Rediscover H.G. Wells - what does he mean to you? Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books The Time Machine is the great, gleeful anarchist novel of the 1890s. It is both a thrilling adventure story and a...

Written in the age of technological revolution,the novels included in this edition combine the mundane with the extraordinary to unnerving effect:the pre dictions of H G Wells fiction have often...

Rediscover H.G. Wells - what does he mean to you? A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis handsome omnibus collects four of H.G. Wells's most celebrated works of social fiction, showcasing his remarkable range as a...

Rediscover H.G. Wells - what does he mean to you? The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell...

Rediscover H.G. Wells - what does he mean to you? When Dr Philip Raven, an intellectual working for the League of Nations, dies in 1930 he leaves behind a powerful...

Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 This novel is one of the most influential science fiction novels of all time.

Rediscover H.G. Wells - what does he mean to you? When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance the brilliant...

A collection of four great novels in one book- The Time Machine, The Island Doctor Moreau,The War of The Worlds and The First Men In The Moon.

Rediscover H.G. Wells - what does he mean to you? Mr Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife's nagging and his dreary job as the...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Slightly Faded spine. This landmark omnibus collects seven of H.G. Wells's most visionary works of science fiction, presenting...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew names in the canon of speculative fiction carry the weight of H.G. Wells, and this magnificent omnibus collects seven of his...

COMING TO BBC ONE IN AUTUMN 2019! 'No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by...

Author: Patrick ParrinderBinding: HardbackPublished: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsH.G. Wells: The Critical Heritage presents a comprehensive collection of critical responses to...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. Few figures in modern literature cast as long a shadow as Herbert...

This is the only one of Wells' scientific romances to embrace space travel. Thanks to the discovery of the anti-gravity metal cavorite, two Victorian Englishmen travel to the Moon.

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Faded boards. Binding remains tight. Foxing on prelims and book...

Author: Gordon N. RayBinding: HardbackPublished: Yale University Press, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsHard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Drawings and Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. Clean...

Author: H.G. Wells Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 A Victorian scientist develops a time machine and travels to the year 802,171 AD. There he finds the meek, child-like Eloi...

In these 'scientific romances' H. G. Wells sees the present reflected in the future and the future in the present. His aim is to provoke rather than predict. The Sleeper...

With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin, the new guest at The Coach and Horses, is at first...

Rediscover H.G. Wells - what does he mean to you? When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has...

Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 HG Wellss story about a machine that allows travel back and forward in time remains one of the...

Author: Anthony WestBinding: PaperbackPublished: Meridian., 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: FEP is cut in corner, rubbed edges...

When Dr Philip Raven, a diplomat working for the League of Nations, dies in the 1930s, he leaves behind a book of dreams outlining the visions he has been experiencing...

Moving from the Modern Classics into the successful Wells series in the Penguin Classics. Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of the First World War, this is...

Author: H. G. WellsBinding: HardbackPublished: Beta Phi Mu, 1957Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: 470 Number of 3000 copies. Some...

A Victorian scientist and inventor creates a machine for propelling himself through time, and voyages to the year AD 802701, where he discovers a race of humanoids called the Eloi....

Edward Prendick is shipwrecked and finds himself stranded on an island in the Pacific. Here he meets the sinister Dr Moreau, a vivisectionist driven out of Britain in disgrace. And...

Rediscover H.G. Wells - what does he mean to you? Orphaned at an early age, raised by his aunt and uncle, and apprenticed for seven years to a draper, Artie...