| H. G. Well's classic tale of the man who built a time machine. Copper Penny Press books are in an easy to read and easy to read aloud sixteen-point format. |
| As the light fell on her face Gerty Bridewell awoke stifled a yawn with her pillow and remembered that she had been very unhappy when she went to bed. |
| One of the most gripping of H.G. Wells' science-fiction sagas, The Invisible Man is the story of a brilliant young scientist who impetuously experiments upon himself, and then becomes invisible and mad, imprisoned in a nightmare of his own making. A spellbinding and unforgettable fantasy, it also provides a lesson in the calamity that can result when knowledge is used toward a corrupt end. Eisner-Award winner Rick Geary's fanciful artwork captures the tragedy and irony of Wells' fascinating tale....[more] |
| The Island of Dr. Moreau, originally published in 1896, is a science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells that addresses the ideas of society, community and human nature. Wells also touches on the concepts of eugenics and Darwinism in this classic as well as timeless science fiction title. |
1904
| As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine-leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventures of Mr. Cavor was, after all, the outcome of the purest accident. It might have been any one. I fell into these things at a time when I thought myself removed from the slightest possibility of disturbing experiences. I had gone to Lympne because I had imagined it the most uneventful place in the ....[more] |
| H.G. Wells wrote both fiction and non-fiction. He worked in many genres including novels, history, and social commentaries. Wells was a leading socialist. Tono-Bungay is a pleasant tasting liquid placebo. George Ponderevo is hired by his uncle to sell the liquid as a miraculous medicine with far reaching curative powers. The success of this product makes George and his uncle very rich. The social consequences come to the forefront in this novel. |
| In this book God is revealed outside of any religious view in order to convey the truest conception possible. Any religion, whatever it might be, will always claim God for itself in an exclusionary fashion. In other words, you must be a follower of the chosen faith before God will accept you and welcome you into his kingdom. Wells rejects this view any man or woman who accepts Gods love in their own way, and connects to their own creator, is fine. An intermediary, despite what they might preach ....[more] |
1966
| The World's Great Age begins anew The Golden Years return The Earth doth like a Snake renew Her Winter Skin outworn: Heaven smiles and Faiths and Empires gleam Like Wrecks of a Dissolving Dream. |
1980
| Since I came to this place I have been very restless wasting my energies in the futile beginning of ill-conceived books. One does not settle down very readily at two and forty to a new way of living and I have found myself with the teeming interests of the life I have abandoned still buzzing like a swarm of homeless bees in my head. (Excerpt) |
1989
| H.G. Wells wrote both fiction and non-fiction. He worked in many genres including novels, history, and social commentaries. Wells is famous for his prophetic concepts. Here he uses an airplane in warfare. In this world version Wells has governments allied with other governments, the US divided over federal and states rights to a universal defensive militia. Mistaken identity, aerial flights and adventure fill this novel. |
1917
| H. G. Wells wrote contemporary novels, social commentaries, history and is best known for science fiction. Before nuclear weapons were developed Wells imagined an atomic bomb, which was accurate. Wells looks at the role of energy and technology in man?s development. Wells concludes that man must either retreat to an agricultural society or use science as the basis for a new cultural order. |
| It was the sixth day of Mr. Direck's first visit to England, and he was at his acutest perception of differences. He found England in every way gratifying and satisfactory, and more of a contrast with things American than he had ever dared to hope. |
1912
| In A Modern Utopia, two travelers fall into a space-warp and suddenly find themselves upon a Utopian Earth controlled by a single World Government. |
| Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), known by his pen name H. G. Wells, was an English author, best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was an outspoken socialist and a pacifist; his later works becoming increasingly political and didactic. |
1994
| Graham fell into a deep and abiding sleep in the 1890s -- and woke, centuries later, having hardly aged. He has been the famous Sleeper for centuries, and has come, by inheritance and the compounding of interest, to own the world. The people adore him -- and their masters (who rule in his name) do not want him breathing. . . . "Nothing is more striking about Mr. Wells . . . than his power of lending freshness and vitality to some well-worn formula of fiction." --"The Spectator" |
1971
| 1922. English novelist, journalist, sociologist, and historian, famous for his works of science fiction, Wells's best-known books are The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The War Of The Worlds. The Secret Places of the Heart begins: The maid was a young woman of great natural calmness; she was accustomed to let in visitors who had this air of being annoyed and finding one umbrella too numerous for them. It mattered nothing to her that the gentleman was asking for Dr. Martineau as if he was as....[more] |
1995
| It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest scratched himself yawned and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips. Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling squealing cubs and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived. |
1961
| H.G.Wells wrote both fiction and non-fiction. He worked in many genres including novels, history, and social commentaries. Wells was a leading socialist. Mr. Polly is an unassuming young man who works in a drapery shop and loves to read about knights. After the death of his father and loosing his job he marries Miriam who he does not love. They set up a shop. Polly finds himself in comic arguments and slapstick calamities wherever he goes. This is a delightful and amusing read. |
1906
| H G Wells wrote contemporary novels, social commentaries, history and is best known for science fiction. This collection of six short stories contains The Star about a large object heading on a collision course with the Earth. Also included are "The New Accelerator," and "The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes". |
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