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Graphic Classics: H.G. Wells is a completely revised second edition of the third volume in the Graphic Classics series. It features three new comics adaptations: "The Time Machine" by Antonella Caputo and Seth Frail, "The Invisible Man" by Rod Lott and Si... more
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THE history of mankind is the history of the attainment of external power. Man is the tool-using, fire-making animal. From the outset of his terrestrial career we find him supple-menting the natural strength and bodily weapons of a beast by the heat of bu... more
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1915 Biography of Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 - August 13, 1946), better known as H. G. Wells, who was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The First Men i... more
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Everyone is familiar with H.G. Wells's pioneering works of science fiction, "The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, "and "The Invisible Man"--but fewer realize how these works helped to technically develop the cinematic narrative. An appealing and acces Everyone is familiar with H.G. Wells's pioneering works of science fiction,... more
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The definitive collection of the best in science fiction stories between 1929-1964. This book contains twenty-six of the greatest science fiction stories ever written. They represent the considered verdict of the Science Fiction Writers of America, th... more
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Featuring hundreds of photos, diagrams, and maps, along with a pull-out map and large shark poster, this guide introduces young readers to one of the world's deadliest animals. Full color. Consumable.... more
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When the intrepid Time Traveller finds himself in the year 802,701, he encounters a seemingly utopian society of evolved human beings but then unearths the dark secret that sets mankind on course toward its inevitable destruction. An insightful look into... more
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H.G. Wells was acclaimed during his lifetime as one of the most original and creative thinkers of the 20th century, and retains to this day a position of considerable importance in the history of ideas. In 1928 when he wrote this cry for a new age of H.G. Wells was... more
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1999: David Lambert, jilted lover and museum curator, discovers the startling news of the return of H.G. Wells's time machine to London. Motivated by an innate curiosity, he propels himself deep into the next millennium. It is 1999, and David Lambert,... more
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Drawn in part from the private memoirs, personal correspondence, and long-forgotten journals of the British literary community from 1910 to the Second World War, this work portrays seven marriages--each rising to the challenge of intimacy in more or less In this astute and engrossing examination of seven artsy marriages from... more
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In this gripping narrative, Peter Smith tells the untold story of the doomsday bomb. In 1950, for the first time in history, mankind realised that he had within his grasp a truly God-like power - the ability to destroy life itself. "Doomsday Men" revea This is the gripping, untold story... more
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Here, in an attractive gift box, are unabridged editions of the five most popular science-fiction novels of H. G. Wells: " The First Men in the Moon, The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau,"" "and "The War of the Worlds,""" a grippi... more
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The author of Flux and Anti-Ice, and the acknowledged heir to the visionary legacy of Wells, Heinlein, and Clarke, returns to the distant conflict between the Eloi and the Morlocks in a story that is at once an exciting expansion, and a radical departure Science fiction fantasy about a heroic... more
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"British Fiction and Cross-Cultural Encounters" reveals that British modernists read widely in anthropology and ethnography, conducted their own "fieldwork," and thematized the challenges of cultural encounters in their fiction. By bringing canonical and... more
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The year is 1917. Following the sudden death of his Professor, a young man and his two companions are approached by a strange man who gives them a book to safeguard. This book, the Imaginarium Geographica, is the reason the Professor was killed, and no The Imaginarium Geographica... "What is... more
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Combining the scientist's analytical view, the historian's sense of destiny, the novelist's vivid feel for everyday life, and the artist's limitless imagination, H.G. Wells crafted impressive fantasies--and the most exciting works of 20th century science... more
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Adobe PDF eBook Rights: Copying allowed, 15 selections every 1 days. Printing allowed, unlimited pages every unlimited days. Lending not allowed. Reading aloud not allowed. Never expires. From the book: As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine-leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it... more
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Written in 1896, "The Island of Dr. Moreau is one of the earliest scientific romances. An instant sensation, it was meant as a commentary on Darwin's theory of evolution, which H. G. Wells stoutly believed. The story centers on the depraved Dr. Moreau, who conducts unspeakable animal experiments on a... more
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Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine (1888), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The War of the Worlds (1897), The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance (1897) and The First Men in the Moon (1900-01). He was a... more
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Adobe EPUB eBook Rights: Copying not allowed. Printing not allowed. Lending not allowed. Reading aloud not allowed. Never expires. Excerpts: Chapter 1 A Slip Under the Microscope Outside the laboratory windows was a watery-grey fog, and within a close warmth and the yellow light of the green-shaded gas lamps that... more
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At twenty-one, the passionate and headstrong Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to rule her own life. When her autocratic father forbids her, via formal letter, from attending a fashionable art-school ball, and even further refuses to allow her advanced study of science, she decides she has no choice but to... more
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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. Anticipations is a comprehensive study of the future developments in the history of predictive writing. This book is considered an excellent representative of human self-awareness. The... more
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The final installment in Penguin Classics's landmark H. G. Wells series Although best known for his novels, it was in his early short fiction that H. G. Wells first explored the relationship between the fantastical and everyday. Here horror meets humor, man-eating squids invade the sleepy Devon coast, and strange... more
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In 1901, the great writer and social critic attempted to predict the future in this book, a fascinating mix of accurate forecasts -- development of cars, buses and trucks, use of flying machines in combat, decline of permanent marriage -- and wild misses, including the prediction that submarines will suffocate... more
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When penniless businessman Mr. Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance the brilliant Dr. Cavor, an absentminded scientist on the brink of developing a material that blocks gravity. Cavor soon succeeds in his experiments, only to tell a stunned Bedford that the invention... more
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Two scientists devise a compound that produces enormous plants, animals -- and humans! The chilling results are disastrous. First published in 1904, this gripping, newly relevant tale of science fiction combines fast-paced entertainment with social commentary as it considers the ethics involved in genetic engineering. Certainly both Mr. Bensington and... more
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A gripping and entertaining tale of terror and suspense as well as a potent Faustian allegory of hubris and science run amok, "The Invisible Man endures as one of the signature stories in the literature of science fiction. A brilliant scientist uncovers the secret to invisibility, but his grandiose dreams... more
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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - ON February the First 1887, the Lady Vain was lost by collision with a derelict when about the latitude 1' S. and longitude 107' W.... more