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Penguin Reader Level 4 "The Time Machine" by H.G. Wells
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Penguin Readers Simplified Text
Classic / British English (Available February 2008) The Time Traveller has built a time machine and has gone into the future to the year 802,701. He expects to find a better world with highly-intelligent people and great inventions. Instead, he finds that people have become weak, child-like creatures. T ...Show more
Penguin Readers Level 3: The Island of Dr Moreau by H.G. Wells
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Penguin Readers Simplified Text
Classic / British English (Available February 2008) Edward Prendick is travelling in the South Pacific when his ship goes down. He is saved after many days at sea by another ship, and a passenger, Montgomery, nurses him back to health. Prendick becomes interested in the mystery of Montgomery's life. Why ...Show more
Rights of Man by H. G. Wells & Ali Smith (intr.)
Category: Philosophy and Religion
H. G. Wells' revolutionary human rights manifesto is reissued by Penguin with a new introduction by fellow novelist and human rights campaigner Ali Smith 'Penguin and Pelican Specials are books of topical importance published within as short a time as possible from receipt of the manuscript. Some are r ...Show more
SF Masterworks: The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks
'No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's...' So begins H. G. Wells' classic novel in which Martian lifeforms take over planet Earth. As the Martians emerge, they construct giant killin ...Show more
Selected Works of H G Wells by H. G. Wells
Category: Classic | Series: Special Editions
H. G. Wells is often referred to as 'the father of science fiction' and this compendium of his stories contains two of his most well-known works in the genre, The Time Machine (1895) and The War of the Worlds (1897). In addition, the reader is treated to some stories of truly extraordinary dimensions: T ...Show more
Selected Works of H. G. Wells (Word Cloud Classics) by H. G. Wells
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
Three captivating novels from a pioneer in the genre of science fiction: The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War in the Air. The stories of H. G. Wells have engrossed readers for more than a century by incorporating fantastic, otherworldly elements into the lives of ordinary people. Selected Wo ...Show more
Slip Under the Microscope : Little Black Classic by H. G. Wells
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Little Black Classics 77
'I will go in, out of this dust and heat, out of this dry glitter of vanity, out of these toilsome futilities. I will go and never return.' Three disturbing, mysterious and moving stories from Wells, science-fiction pioneer. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little ...Show more
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Ink Classics) by H. G. Wells; Robert Louis Stevenson
Category: Classics SPECIALS | Series: Scholastic Classics Ser.
"Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil." The mysterious association between respectable Dr Henry Jekyll and despicable lowlife Edward Hyde is a puzzle to Dr Jekyll's friends, including his lawyer Gabriel Utterson. Where Jekyll is sociable, hardworking and pious, Hyde is a violent cri ...Show more