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First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells
$7.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to Kent to write a play, he encounters Dr Cavor, an absent-minded scientist who has invented a material that counteracts gravity. This discovery enables the two men to set off on a fantastic journey to the Moon. But they are not prepared for what they find ...Show more
Island of Doctor Moreau and Other Stories by H. G. Wells
$7.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Emily Alder, Lecturer in Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University 'Each time I dip a living creature into the bath of burning pain, I say: this time I will burn out all the animal, this time I will make a rational creature of my own!' declares Doctor Mo ...Show more
Kipps and the History of MR Polly by H. G. Wells
$7.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | 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
The Crystal Egg and Other Stories by H. G. Wells
$7.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
This volume contains a generous selection of the tales of H. G. Wells, some of them famous, some forgotten. They demonstrate his immense imaginative energy, his originality, his prophetic genius, and his mastery of a range embracing Gothic horror, social satire, lyrical reverie and Utopian fantasy. Here ...Show more
The Door in the Wall by H.G. Wells
$7.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
'And so, in a trice, he came into the garden that has haunted all his life'. H.G. Wells was a pioneer of science fiction, its first and greatest influence. Here his boundless invention creates three very stories: a poignant parable of a mysterious door, a thrilling account of be-tentacled sea creatures ...Show more
The Great Science Fiction: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Short Stories by H. G. Wells
$37.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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' Exploring the primordial nightmares that lurk within humanity's dreams of progress and technology, H. G. Wells was a science fiction pioneer. ...Show more
The Invisible Man by H G Wells, H. G. Wells
$19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
H. G. Wells skilfully combines tension, wit and terror in The Invisible Man, a masterpiece of science fiction. Complete & Unabridged. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books ma ...Show more
The Invisible Man (Vintage Classics Sci-Fi range) by H. G. Wells
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
The stranger arrives early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow. He is wrapped up from head to foot, and the brim of his hat hides every inch of his face. Rude and rough, the stranger works with strange apparatus locked in his room all day and walks along lonely lanes at ...Show more
The Invisible Man/ The Food of the Gods by H. G. Wells
$7.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Linda Dryden, Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh Napier University and the author of Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells: The Fin-de Siecle-Literary Scene. At the end of the nineteenth century a stranger arrives in the Sussex countryside and mayhem ensues; in the sl ...Show more
The Island of Doctor Moreau (Vintage Classics Sci-Fi range) by H. G. Wells
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
They say that terror is a disease...A shipwrecked man finds himself, after various twists of Fate, on a lonely tropical island. From a locked enclosure the cries of animals in pain can be heard, and there is a stink of chemicals in the air. Bestial faces stare out of the forests and grotesque, misshaped ...Show more
The Sea Raiders : Little Black Classic by H. G. Wells
$2.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
"...slowly uncoiling their tentacles...and making a soft purring sound to each other." This is a disgusting account of a school of giant squid attacking a seaside resort, and two other examples of Wells' extraordinary imagination at work - 'The Magic Shop' and 'The Land Ironclads'. This is one of 46 new ...Show more
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
In the Time Traveller's miraculous new machine, we will be carried from a Victorian dinner table to 802,701 AD, when the Earth is divided between the gentle, ineffective Eloi, and the ape-like Morlocks; forward again by a million years or so to glimpse a dying world of blood-red beaches and menacing sha ...Show more