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Kipps and the History of MR Polly by H. G. Wells
Category: Classic | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
These comic novels will resonate with anyone who has ever felt trapped by circumstance. Their central characters, Artie Kipps and Alfred Polly, are prisoners of their modest social class, limited education, dull work, and sterile relationships. In Wells' hands they break out of the cages that society ...Show more
Kipps: the Story of a Simple Soul by H. G. Wells
Category: Classics
Those individuals who have led secluded or isolated lives, or have hitherto moved in other spheres than those wherein well-bred people move, will gather all the information necessary from these pages to render them thoroughly conversant with the manners and amenities of society. (Typographical errors ab ...Show more
Last Books of H. G. Wells, The - A Dream of Life and Mind at the End of Its Tether by WELLS, H G
Category: General Fiction
This volume contains the two last works by HG Wells. Nearing the end of his life, increasingly distressed over the war, Wells deals with death and apocalypse, mortality and religion, and with "human insufficiency." Mind at the End of its Tether "One approaches it with awe. You come across references to ...Show more
Level 2: Stories of Other Worlds Book and Multi-ROM with MP3 Pack by Wells, H. G.
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Pearson English Active Readers Ser.
Pearson English Active Readers present stories carefully written and graded across five levels for teachers of English who want to activate their students' language through reading, . From original stories, classic and contemporary fiction, to film adaptations and nonfiction titles, an integrated skil ...Show more
Love and Mr Lewisham by H.G. Wells
Category: Classic
Mr Lewisham, a young and highly ambitious schoolmaster, falls in love with Ethel Henderson, a young lady visiting his Sussex village. When Ethel returns to London they promise to keep in touch but as time passes their letters go astray. A few years later, we are re-introduced to Mr Lewisham, now a stude ...Show more
Men Like Gods by H. G. Wells
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions
Men Like Gods by H. G. Wells Mr Barnstaple was ever such a careful driver, careful to indicate before every manoeuvre and very much in favour of slowing down at the slightest hint of difficulty. So however could he have got the car into a skid on a bend on the Maidenhead road? When he recovered himself ...Show more
Men Like Gods by H G Wells
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Welcome to Utopia. When Mr. Barnstaple, an Earthling, is accidentally transported to Utopia with a group of others, he begins an adventure that will change how he views the world forever. Utopia has no governmen ...Show more
Mr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island by H. G. Wells
Category: Fiction
Being the Story of a Gentleman of Culture and Refinement who suffered Shipwreck and saw no Human Beings otherthan Cruel and Savage Cannibals for several years. How he beheld Megatheria alive and made some notes of theirHabits. How he became a Sacred Lunatic. How he did at last escape in a Strange Manner ...Show more
Mr Britling Sees it Through by WELLS, H G
Category: Fiction | Series: Casemate Classic War Fiction
Novel set in WWI Britain; Mr Britling as a writer whose family is caught up in events of the war, and he must re-examine his beliefs and world view. A profound and very human account of the early years of the war, told from the perspective of a father rather than combatants, but no less revealing. Mr Br ...Show more
Pearson Readers Level 5: "The Invisible Man" by H.G. Wells
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Penguin Readers Simplified Text
Classic / British English (Available April 2008) A stranger arrives in a small village wearing a long coat and gloves. His head is covered in bandages and dark glasses hide his eyes. The villagers are curious. Who is he? When they discover the stranger's terrible secret, they realize that they are in gr ...Show more