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  • A Short History of the World

    by Herbert Wells ...
    A Short History of the World is a period-piece non-fictional historic work by English author H. G. Wells first published by Cassell and Co, Ltd Publishing in 1922. The book was largely inspired by Wells's earlier 1919 work The Outline of History. The book is 344 pages in total, summarising the scientific knowledge of the time regarding the history of Earth and life. It starts with its origins, ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The World Set Free

    A Story of Mankind

    by Herbert Georges WELLS ...
    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 supplementing the natural strength and bodily weapons of a beast by the heat of burning and the rough implement of stone. So he passed beyond the ape. From that he expands. Presently he added to himself the power of the horse ... Read more

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  • The New World Order

    by Herbert George Wells ...
    Series series Angleterre
    In this small book I want to set down as compactly, clearly and usefully as possible the gist of what I have learnt about war and peace in the course of my life. I am not going to write peace propaganda here. I am going to strip down certain general ideas and realities of primary importance to their framework, and so prepare a nucleus of useful knowledge for those who have to go on with this ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ann Veronica

    by Herbert George Wells ...
    Ann Veronica is a modern love story written by H.G. Wells and first published in 1909. It is widely considered to be one of the greatest books of all time. This great classic will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, Ann Veronica is required reading for various courses and curriculum's, and for others who simply enjoy reading timeless pieces of classic literature, this ... Read more

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  • The Outline of History

    by Herbert George Wells ...
    With The Outline of History Wells started a craze that lasted throughout the 1920s for copycat outlines on every conceivable subject. Coming right after the carnage of World War I, the Outline was neither unduly pessimistic and cynical about the human condition nor Pollyannaish about humanity's future. Instead, it offered an account of the development of the world's civilizations up to the present ... Read more

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  • The History of Mr Polly

    by Herbert George Wells ...
    An intriguing HG Wells work, not of the sci-fi variety, which details a man’s struggle to find himself and get along with his world. Published in 1910, this novel is the story of Alfred Polly, a generally non-descript member of the English lower middle class. The story begins when he is thirty-five years old, miserably unhappy with his life, both his circumstances and himself. In other words, he ... Read more

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  • The Invisible Man

    by Herbert George Wells ...
    This masterpiece of science fiction is the fascinating story of Griffin, a scientist who creates a serum to render himself invisible, and his descent into madness that follows. ... Read more

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  • The Time Machine

    by Herbert George Wells ...
    The book's protagonist is an English scientist and gentleman inventor living in Richmond, Surrey, identified by a narrator simply as the Time Traveller. The narrator recounts the Traveller's lecture to his weekly dinner guests that time is simply a fourth dimension, and his demonstration of a tabletop model machine for travelling through it. He reveals that he has built a machine capable of ... Read more

    $2.05 CAD

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  • The Complete Novels of H. G. Wells

    Over 55 Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, The History of Mr. Polly, The War in the Air and many more

    by Herbert George Wells, H G Wells ...
    In this collection you will find : Novels -The Time Machine -The War of the Worlds -The Invisible Man -The Island of Doctor Moreau -The Sleeper Awakes -A Modern Utopia -The Wheels of Chance -The First Men in the Moon -The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth -In the Days of the Comet -Ann Veronica Short Stories -Tales of Space and Time -The Red Room -The Diamond Maker -Æpyornis Island -The ... Read more

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  • The Time Machine

    by Herbert Wells ...
    The Time Machine by H. G. Wells is a science fiction novel that was first published in 1895. The story follows an unnamed Time Traveller who builds a machine that can transport him through time. He travels to the year 802,701 AD where he encounters two distinct species of human-like creatures, the Eloi and the Morlocks. The Eloi are childlike and peaceful, living above ground in a utopian society, ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Invisible Man

    by Herbert George Wells ...
    "The Invisible Man" is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells. Originally serialized in "Pearson's Weekly" in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and invents a way to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it neither absorbs nor reflects light and thus becomes ... Read more

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  • The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind

    by Herbert George Wells ...
    This outline of History is an attempt to tell, truly and clearly, in one continuous narrative, the whole story of life and mankind so far as it is known to-day. It is written plainly for the general reader, but its aim goes beyond its use as merely interesting reading matter. There is a feeling abroad that the teaching of history considered as a part of general education is in an unsatisfactory ... Read more

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