author: mr george wells

The Magic Shop

Fantastical illustrations underscore the macabre atmosphere of the tale, make this a perfect book read aloud together again and again.

God the Invisible King

This book covers the author's conception of God aside from any religion.

The Time Machine

... it might be that the Morlocks did under the new moon. I felt pretty sure now that my second hypothesis was all wrong. The Upperworld people might once have been the favoured aristocracy, and the Morlocks their mechanical servants: but that ...

The Time Machine - Literary Touchstone Edition

... them in their habitual needs, perhaps through the survival of an old habit of service. They did it as a standing horse paws with his foot, or as a man enjoys killing animals in sport: because ancient and departed necessities had impressed ...

The Time Machine

The Time Machine: H.G. Wells' Visionary Tale of Time Travel and Adventure H. G. (Herbert George) Wells ... did under the new moon. I felt pretty sure now that my second hypothesis was ... it floated into my mind: not stirred up as it were.

e-First Students' Classics: The Time Machine

... it has been our headquarters ever since. and the other group? they are at the opposite end of the area. They are based in Antarctica. How many years did that war last? it's still Going on. Southdom is always spying, attacking, looting ...

The War of the Worlds: Fresh Perspectives on the H.G. Wells Classic

... left forgotten.9 In 1976, rock impresario Jeff Wayne created a rock opera version of The War of the Worlds, released by Columbia Records. With Richard Burton's mellifluous narration, drawn from the original novel, the music creates an ...

The War of the Worlds

When H.G. Wells penned The War of the Worlds in 1898, London was the center of the known human universe; Wells' dark novel sets about destroying civilization by striking at it's most glorious and shining city, at a time when man was decades ...

Men Like Gods: A Novel

... road through Slough , and now at half - past one he was soaring through wonderland with his own world half for- gotten . " Marvellous , " he repeated . " Marvellous . I knew that I should have a good holiday . But this , this ! " He was ...

The Invisible Man - Literary Touchstone Edition

... literary elements . S Setting ETTING IS ONE of the most important a story , as it is the context ( both time ; action . Often , a unique setting , or an in place setting , is what make a great sto setting enables the action and develop ...

The Time Machine Annotated

The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle or device to travel purposely and selectively forward or backward through time.

The Time Machine (Illustrated)

The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle or device to travel purposely and selectively forward or backward through time.

Valuable and Extensive Library of Books. A Catalogue of a Genuine and Valuable Extensive Library of Books, Elegantly Bound, ... the Works of the Most Eminent Authors, ... The Property of a Gentleman, Removed from Uxbridge. Which Will be Sold by Auction, by Mr. Wells, ... No. 130, Long Acre, on Friday, February 21st, 1800, ...

... Bowyers bible elegantly bound in blue Morrocco and a common prayer book 28 A ditto in red Morrocco and a common prayer book 29 D'Ifraeli's romance , fine wove paper , and Mavor's natμ- ral history 30 Plutarch lives neatly bound 6 v . 31 ...

The Island of Doctor Moreau

Herbert George Wells. The. Thing. in. the. Forest. Table of Contents. IX. Table of Contents THE THING IN THE FOREST. STRODE the house, through scarcely the heeding undergrowth whither that I went; clothed passed the ridge through behind the ...

The Time Machine ; the War of the Worlds ; The Island of Dr. Moreau

... savage survivals , discords in a refined and pleasant life . “ I thought of the physical slightness of the people ... hindrances to a civilized man . And in a state of physical balance and security , power , intellectual as well as physi ...

In the Days of the Comet

Herbert George Wells. business , was chilled and checked . Numbers of men stood about the streets in knots and groups , as cor- puscles gather ... wicked appetite for the good things it could so rarely get . 86 IN THE DAYS OF THE COMET BK .

The Works of H.G. Wells

... wicked disin- clination for work and a wicked appetite for the good things it could so rarely get . For common im- aginative purposes one left out the policeman from the design , the stalwart policeman protecting his lordship , and ...

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