H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

As life on Mars becomes impossible, Martians and their terrifying machines invade the earth. Find yourself caught in the middle of an alien invasion in the late 1800s in this collectible hardcover edition of the thrilling science fiction classic. A classic science fiction novel, The War of the Worlds tells the story of the martian invasion of Planet Earth. This late–nineteenth century novel plays on the mood of the period in which it was written—a...

Having coined the phrase "the war that will end war," H. G. Wells was disillusioned by the World War I peace settlement. Convinced that humanity needed to awaken to the instability of the world order and remember lessons from the past, the author of numerous science fiction classics set out to write about history. Wells hoped to remind mankind of its common past, provide it with a basis for international patriotism, and guide it to renounce war. The...

"The Island of Dr Moreau by H. G. Wells is a dark and chilling tale of scientific experimentation gone too far. Rescued after a shipwreck, Edward Prendick is brought to a remote island that hides a ghastly secret. He finds himself in the middle of a lush land nurturing a strange population-denizens born of indescribable pain, beyond all constraints of humanity and morality. Will Prendick survive this grim and dangerous encounter?"-- Provided by publisher....

In the first of these two science fiction stories a scientist invents a machine that transports him into the future. In the second story a man watches his body slowly become invisible.

As life on Mars becomes impossible, Martians and their terrifying machines invade the earth.

George Ponderevo's uncle, Edward Ponderevo, a druggist, moves to London and makes a fortune from his quack medicine Tono-Bungay. George helps his uncle and uses some of his money to set himself up as an airplane designer.

God the Invisible King is a theological work by H.G. Wells, published in 1917, in which the acclaimed author presents his personal beliefs on religion, distinct from traditional Christianity. Wells sets out to clearly articulate his own religious convictions, emphasizing that his views diverge significantly from Christian doctrine, particularly rejecting the concept of the Trinity, which he criticizes as a rigid outcome of the Council of Nicaea. In...

When The Sleeper Awakes is about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London, where, because of compound interest on his bank accounts, he has become the richest man in the world. The main character awakes to see his dreams realised, and the future revealed to him in all its horrors and malformities. Graham fell into a deep and abiding sleep in the 1890s -- and woke, centuries later, having hardly...

Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of the First World War, this is an account of the evolution of life and the development of the human race. It also considers the Neolithic era, the rise of Judaism, the Golden Age of Athens, the life of Christ, the rise of Islam, the discovery of America and the Industrial Revolution.

The New Machiavelli is a 1911 novel by H. G. Wells that was serialized in The English Review in 1910. Because its plot notoriously derived from Wells's affair with Amber Reeves and satirized Beatrice and Sidney Webb, it was "the literary scandal of its day". The New Machiavelli purports to be written in the first person by its protagonist, Richard "Dick" Remington, who has a lifelong passion for "statecraft" and who dreams of recasting the social...