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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Yellowed boards. "The Happy Turning" is a late philosophical...

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...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat would you do if sudden wealth transformed you overnight from a draper's assistant into a gentleman of...

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...

Author: H.G. Wells Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Two scientists develop a foodstuff that causes unparalleled growth in animals and humans. The results of their experimentation lead to chaos...

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

The new paperback series: Penguin English Library 'That black figure, with its eyes of fire, struck down through all my adult thoughts and feelings, and for a moment the forgotten...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA landmark work of Edwardian fiction, Ann Veronica chronicles the bold rebellion of a young woman who defies her father's authority and...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few figures in modern literary history burned as fiercely—or as contradictorily—as Herbert...

Rediscover H.G. Wells - what does he mean to you? Twenty-one, passionate and headstrong, Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her own life. When her father forbids her from...

Edition: rev ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards with minor marks and corner bumping....

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...

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: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...

An Apothecary of Art is the beautiful debut collection from Ravenous Butterflies featuring 80 exquisite works of art from the likes of John William Waterhouse, Henri Rousseau and Rockwell Kent...

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...

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...

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...

Black Livingstone is the first book to chronicle the remarkable life of William Henry Sheppard. As a twenty-four-year-old African American missionary in 1890, Sheppard departed for what was then the...

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Volume 2 of a three volume set containing Henry Handel Richardson's correspondence in its entirety. The publication of Henry Handel Richardson's correspondence will be a major event in Australian scholarly...

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...

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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...

Arguably William Shakespeare's most influential play, Hamlet portrays a young Prince's dilemma in choosing between moral integrity and the need for revenge following the murder of his father. Dealing with...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew figures in Victorian England burned with as fierce and multifaceted a brilliance as William Morris — poet, craftsman, socialist,...

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.

*Now with an exclusive extract of Elizabeth Chadwick's next novel, The Royal Rebel - only in the paperback!*Wales, 1093.The warm, comfortable family life of young Nesta, daughter of Prince Rhys...

Author: William H Gass Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 928 Throughout his career, William Gass relentlessly pushed at the boundaries of language, celebrating the music of the sentence and the...

Author: H. G. WellsBinding: HardbackPublished: -, 1933Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: No dust jacket, cover has some wear, pages have some foxing/light yellowingMarriage by H. G....

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...

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...

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...

Launching a major new paperback series- Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 'The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I...