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    139 Books
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    January 1888
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    November 2014
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  • The Chronic Argonauts

    H.G. Wells was a legendary British author who wrote in many genres.  Wells’ most famous works were science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and The Invisible Man.  This edition of Wells’ The Chronic Argona...

  • The Flying Man

    The Ethnologist looked at the bhimraj feather thoughtfully. "They seemed loth to part with it," he said. "It is sacred to the Chiefs," said the lieutenant; "just as yellow silk, you know, is sacred to the Chinese Emperor." The Ethnologist did not ans...

  • The Hammerpond Park Burglary

    It is a moot point whether burglary is to be considered as a sport, a trade, or an art. For a trade, the technique is scarcely rigid enough, and its claims to be considered an art are vitiated by the mercenary element that qualifies its triumphs. On ...

  • Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation

    Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation is a short story by H. G. Wells. Herbert George "H. G." Wells (21 September 1866 " 13 August 1946) was an English writer, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other...

  • In the Modern Vein: An Un Sympathetic Love Story

    Aubrey Vair lived in a little red villa with a lawn at the back and a view of the Downs behind Reigate. He lived upon discreet investment eked out by literary work. His wife was handsome, sweet, and gentle, and-such is the tender humility of good mar...

  • In the Avu Observatory

    This early work by H. G. Wells was originally published in 1894 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'In the Avu Observatory' is a short story of a man working in...

  • Through a Window

    Through a Window is a short story by H. G. Wells. Herbert George "H. G." Wells (21 September 1866 " 13 August 1946) was an English writer, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres,...

  • The Argonauts of the Air

    One saw Monson's Flying Machine from the windows of the trains passing either along the South-Western main line or along the line between Wimbledon and Worcester Park, -to be more exact, one saw the huge scaffoldings which limited the flight of the a...

  • Select Conversations with an Uncle Now Extinct

    H.G. Wells was a legendary British author who wrote in many genres.  Wells’ most famous works were science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and The Invisible Man.  This edition of Wells’ Select Conversatio...



  • The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents

    This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic reade...

  • Time Machine

    Classic Starts (Sterling)

    The Time Machine is an American classic written by H.G. Wells and first published in 1895. Wells touches gently on time travel as a notion, but mostly The Time Machine is about the terminal future he sees for mankind: His nameless time traveler ventu...

  • The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes

    The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes is a short story by H. G. Wells. Herbert George "H. G." Wells (21 September 1866 " 13 August 1946) was an English writer, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer...

  • The Wonderful Visit

    H.G. Wells was a legendary British author who wrote in many genres.  Wells’ most famous works were science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and The Invisible Man.  This edition of Wells’ The Wonderful Visi...

  • A Catastrophe

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    "Tea, dear," said Mrs. Winslow, opening the door with the glass window and the white blind that communicated with the parlour. "One minute," said Winslow, and began unlocking the desk. An irritable old gentleman, very hot and red about the face, and ...

  • Pollock and the Porroh Man

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    It was in a swampy village on the lagoon river behind the Turner Peninsula that Pollock's first encounter with the Porroh man occurred. The women of that country are famous for their good looks-they are Gallinas with a dash of European blood that dat...

  • The Apple

    Mr. Hinchcliff looked up, hearing imperfectly. He had been lost in the rapt contemplation of the college cap tied by a string to his portmanteau handles-the outward and visible sign of his newly-gained pedagogic position-in the rapt appreciation of t...

  • In the Abyss

    This early work by H. G. Wells was originally published in 1896 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'In the Abyss' is a short story about deep sea exploring and ...

  • The Lost Inheritance

    "My uncle," said the man with the glass eye, "was what you might call a hemi-semi-demi millionaire. He was worth about a hundred and twenty thousand. Quite. And he left me all his money." I glanced at the shiny sleeve of his coat, and my eye travelle...

  • The Wheels of Chance

    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com. Mercury (loquitur). " The mischief a secret any of them know, above the consuming of coals and drawing of usquebaugh! Howsoever they may pretend, under the specious names of Geber, Arnold, Lulli, or bom...



  • The Purple Pileus

    The Purple Pileus is a short story by H. G. Wells. Herbert George "H. G." Wells (21 September 1866 " 13 August 1946) was an English writer, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres...

  • The Red Room

    Clearly ahead of his time, H. G. Wells gave his great gifts to the world with his classic science fiction works, including this short story. "The Red Room," set in the late 1800s, takes the reader on a frightening experience. Enjoy Well's amazing ima...

  • A Slip Under the Microscope

    A Slip Under the Microscope is a short story by H. G. Wells. Herbert George "H. G." Wells (21 September 1866 " 13 August 1946) was an English writer, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many ot...

  • Under the Knife

    Under the Knife is a short story by H. G. Wells. Herbert George H. G. Wells (21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946) was an English writer, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, incl...

  • The Island of Doctor Moreau

    Unlike most famous artists of the past, Giorgione has not yet found a modern biographer. The whole trend of recent criticism has, in his case, been to destroy not to fulfill. Yet signs are not wanting that the disintegrating process is at an end, and...

  • The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham

    The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham is a short story by H. G. Wells. Herbert George "H. G." Wells (21 September 1866 " 13 August 1946) was an English writer, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in ...

  • Thirty Strange Stories

    Originally published in 1897, Thirty Strange Stories contains such well-known stories as “The Triumphs of a Taxidermist,” about the outrageous exploits, both authentic and fraudulent, of a taxidermist, who then reappears in “A Deal of Ostriches...

  • A Story of the Stone Age

    A Story of the Stone Age by H. G. Wells "A Story of the Stone Age" is a short story written in 1897 by H. G. Wells. The story was featured in three parts between May and August 1897 in The Idler magazine, and was later released in collected editions....

  • The Star

    in The Road to Science Fiction: From Gilgamesh to Wells

    It was on the first day of the new year that the announcement was made, almost simultaneously from three observatories, that the motion of the planet Neptune, the outermost of all the planets that wheel about the sun, had become very erratic. Ogilvy ...

  • The Invisible Man

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    Who is this mysterious stranger? Why is he wrapped in bandages from head to toe? Ever since he arrived in town, strange and terrible things have been happening. Is he responsible? No one knows the horrible truth -- the man is invisible! ...



  • The Plattner Story and Others

    This collection of seventeen short stories, originally published in 1897, offers the reader classic H. G. Wells -- ranging in theme from the multi-dimensions of time and space in “The Plattner Story,” to classic science fiction in “The Apple”...

  • The Crystal Egg

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    From "The Crystal Egg":

    There was, until a year ago, a little and very grimy-looking shop near Seven Dials over which, in weather-worn yellow lettering, the name of "C. Cave, Naturalist and Dealer in Antiquities," was inscribed. The...

  • The Stolen Body

    Mr. Bessel was the senior partner in the firm of Bessel, Hart, and Brown, of St. Paul's Churchyard, and for many years he was well known among those interested in psychical research as a liberal-minded and conscientious investigator. He was an unmarr...

  • The War of the Worlds

    Classic Starts (Sterling)

    The War of the Worlds is an American classic written by H.G. Wells and published in 1898. 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....

  • Miss Winchelsea's Heart

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    Miss Winchelsea's Heart is a short story by H. G. Wells. Herbert George "H. G." Wells (21 September 1866 " 13 August 1946) was an English writer, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other ...

  • Tales of Space and Time

    Tales of Space and Time was written by H.G. Wells and first published in 1899. Tales of Space and Time is a classic fantasy and science fiction collection of three short stories and two novellas....

  • When the Sleeper Wakes

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    Critics view When the Sleeper Wakes as a prototype of the anti-utopian novel, a genre developed by Zamyatin, Huxley, and Orwell into nightmare futures associated with the totalitarian age and the moral horrors of fascism and communism. Annotated by t...

  • Mr. Brisher's Treasure

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    Mr. Brisher's Treasure is a short story by H. G. Wells. Herbert George "H. G." Wells (21 September 1866 " 13 August 1946) was an English writer, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other g...

  • A Story of the Days to Come

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    Clearly ahead of his time, H. G. Wells gave his great gifts to the world with his classic works, including this story. "A Story of the Days to Come," takes the reader on a journey of the future. Enjoy Well's amazing imagination as you discover what t...

  • Love and Mr. Lewisham

    Young, impoverished, and ambitious science student Mr. Lewisham is locked in a struggle to further himself through academic achievement. But when his former sweetheart, Ethel Henderson, re-enters his life, his strictly regimented existence is thrown ...



  • Anticipations

    H.G. Wells was a legendary British author who wrote in many genres.  Wells’ most famous works were science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and The Invisible Man.  This edition of Wells’ Anticipations incl...

  • Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought

    Throughout his career, Wells kept his eye on the future. In 1901 he used this book to make predictions for the twentieth century. He foresaw the development of mass transportation and the automobile, air power in combat, and even the decline of perma...

  • A Dream of Armageddon

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

  • First Men in the Moon

    The First Men In The Moon was written by H.G. Wells and first published in 1901. 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 ...

  • Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland

    Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland is a short story by H. G. Wells. Herbert George "H. G." Wells (21 September 1866 " 13 August 1946) was an English writer, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many ...

  • The New Accelerator

    The New Accelerator is a short story by H. G. Wells. Herbert George "H. G." Wells (21 September 1866 " 13 August 1946) was an English writer, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genr...

  • The Sea Lady

    H.G. Wells was a legendary British author who wrote in many genres.  Wells’ most famous works were science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and The Invisible Man.  This edition of Wells’ The Sea Lady inclu...

  • The Discovery of the Future

    H.G. Wells was a legendary British author who wrote in many genres.  Wells’ most famous works were science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and The Invisible Man.  This edition of Wells’ The Discovery of t...

  • Mankind in the Making

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    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.It may save misunderstanding if a word or so be said here of the aim and scope of this book. It is written in relation to a previous work, Anticipations, [Footnote: Published by Harper Bros.] and together wi...

  • The Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth

    H.G. Wells was a legendary British author who wrote in many genres.  Wells’ most famous works were science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and The Invisible Man.  This edition of Wells’ The Food of the Go...



  • The Country of the Blind

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    As I sit writing in my study, I can hear our Jane bumping her way downstairs with a brush and dust-pan. She used in the old days to sing hymn tunes, or the British national song for the time being, to these instruments, but latterly she has been sile...

  • Empire of the Ants

    This early work by H. G. Wells was originally published in 1905 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'The Empire of the Ants' is a short story of a Brazilian Capt...

  • A Modern Utopia

    A Modern Utopia was written by H. G. Wells. 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....

  • Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul

    H.G. Wells was a legendary British author who wrote in many genres.  Wells’ most famous works were science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and The Invisible Man.  This edition of Wells’ Kipps: The Story o...

  • The Door in the Wall

    '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 doo...

  • In the Days of the Comet

    H.G. Wells was a legendary British author who wrote in many genres.  Wells’ most famous works were science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and The Invisible Man.  This edition of Wells’ In the Days of the...

  • First and Last Things

    In 1908 Wells made the attempt to set down his philosophies about life, the universe, and belief. This wide-ranging book covers logic, metaphysics, thought, free will, and individualism; God, Christianity, and other religions; socialism, love, hate, ...

  • The War in the Air

    A cornerstone of early science fiction and a haunting image of world war

    Following the development of massive airships, naïve Londoner Bert Smallways becomes accidentally involved in a German plot to invade America by air and reduce New York ...

  • New Worlds For Old

    In New Worlds for Old, Wells examines the basics of socialist thought and theory, and looks at the differences between existing philosophies within socialism. Because he personally witnessed socialist movements in both America and England, this accou...

  • Ann Veronica

    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.One Wednesday afternoon in late September, Ann Veronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have things out with her father that very evening. She had trembled...

  • Tono-Bungay

    Presented as a miraculous cure-all, Tono-Bungay is in fact nothing other than a pleasant-tasting liquid with no positive effects. Nonetheless, when the young George Ponderevo is employed by his Uncle Edward to help market this ineffective medicine, h...

  • The Beautiful Suit

    There was once a little man whose mother made him a beautiful suit of clothes. It was green and gold, and woven so that I cannot describe how delicate and fine it was, and there was a tie of orange fluffiness that tied up under his chin. And the butt...

  • A Moonlight Fable

    There was once a little man whose mother made him a beautiful suit of clothes. It was green and gold and woven so that I cannot describe how delicate and fine it was, and there was a tie of orange fluffiness that tied up under his chin. And the butto...

  • George Meek Bath Chair-Man

    This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...

  • The Sleeper Awakes

    A fascinating and prescient account of a future dominated by capitalist greed and mechanical force

    A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred years. During h...

  • The History of Mr. Polly

    H.G. Wells was a legendary British author who wrote in many genres.  Wells’ most famous works were science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and The Invisible Man.  This edition of Wells’ The History of Mr....

  • The New Machiavelli

    The New Machiavelli was written by H.G. Wells and first published in 1911. As H. G. Wells sat down to write, he realised with almost shuddering accuracy that he had reached the exact same age as Machiavelli was when he fell from politics and wrote of...

  • Floor Games

    Floor Games is a short story by H. G. Wells. H.G. Wells had so much fun playing with his children on the floor of their playroom, he decided to write a jovial little book to inspire other parents in their pursuit of quality time with the kids. While ...

  • Marriage

    H.G. Wells was a legendary British author who wrote in many genres.  Wells’ most famous works were science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and The Invisible Man.  This edition of Wells’ Marriage includes ...

  • Little Wars

    "LITTLE WARS" is the game of kings -- for players in an inferior social position. It can be played by boys of every age from twelve to one hundred and fifty -- and even later if the limbs remain sufficiently supple -- by girls of the better sort, and...

  • Passionate Friends

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

  • The Last War

    "From nearly two hundred centres, and every week added to their number, roared the unquenchable crimson conflagrations of the atomic bombs. The flimsy fabric of the world's credit had vanished, industry was completed disorganised, and every city, eve...

  • The World Set Free

    " 'It has begun,' he writes in the diary in which these things are recorded. 'It is not for me to reach out to consequences I cannot foresee. I am a part, not a whole; I am a little instrument in the armoury of Change. If I were to burn all these pap...

  • An Englishman Looks At The World

    “Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters,” this 1914 work, inspired by Louis Bleriot’s airplane flight across the English Channel, presents iconoclastic opinions on flight, travel, the monarchy, labor, sociology, warfar...

  • Wife of Sir Isaac Harman

    H.G. Wells was a legendary British author who wrote in many genres.  Wells’ most famous works were science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and The Invisible Man.  This edition of Wells’ The Wife of Sir Is...

  • Bealby: A Holiday

    Though young Bealby is determined to rise above his mother’s servant status, no amount of struggle helps him to prevail. He reluctantly leaves his home for Shonts, a big country house, to work as a steward’s boy. But a fateful weekend visit by di...

  • Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses

  • The Research Magnificent

    H.G. Wells was a legendary British author who wrote in many genres.  Wells’ most famous works were science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and The Invisible Man.  This edition of Wells’ The Research Magni...

  • The Sad Story of a Dramatic Critic

    I was-you shall hear immediately why I am not now-Egbert Craddock Cummins. The name remains. I am still (Heaven help me ) Dramatic Critic to the Fiery Cross. What I shall be in a little while I do not know. I write in great trouble and confusion of m...

  • Mr. Britling Sees It Through

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

  • What Is Coming?

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

  • The Soul of A Bishop

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

  • War and the Future

    Per Wikipedia.com, "Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 " 13 August 1946) was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, histor...

  • God, the Invisible King

    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 Firs...

  • Joan and Peter: The Story of an Education

    H.G. Wells was a legendary British author who wrote in many genres.  Wells’ most famous works were science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and The Invisible Man.  This edition of Wells’ Joan and Peter inc...

  • In The Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace

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    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

  • The Undying Fire

    H.G. Wells was a legendary British author who wrote in many genres.  Wells’ most famous works were science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and The Invisible Man.  This edition of Wells’ The Undying Fire i...

  • The Salvaging of Civilization

    The First World War left the always forward-looking Wells obsessed with how to prevent another such conflict. This 1921 prescription for global peace includes technology, education, world government, revised sexual mores, and even an anthology to sub...

  • A Short History of the World

    H.G. Wells was a legendary British author who wrote in many genres.  Wells’ most famous works were science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and The Invisible Man.  This edition of Wells’ A Short History of...

  • The Secret Places of the Heart

    H.G. Wells was a legendary British author who wrote in many genres.  Wells’ most famous works were science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and The Invisible Man.  This edition of Wells’ The Secret Places ...

  • Men Like Gods

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

  • The Dream

    A man from the future dreams of a past life in this mind-bending story by the author of The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds.   Known for such classic novels as The Time Machine and The Island of Doctor Moreau, H. G. Wells is considered o...

  • A Volume of Journalism

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

  • Christina Alberta's Father

    This vintage book comprises H. G. Wells’ 1925 novel, "Christina Alberta’s Father". The story is set in London and begins as an ostensibly light-hearted novel that concentrates on the flaws of the class system. However, Wells soon begins a...

  • The World of William Clissold

    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

  • Meanwhile

    This volume contains H. G. Wells's 1927 novel, "Meanwhile; or, the Picture of a Lady". This novel was written by Wells after being inspired by an unknown lady that he saw in the garden of La Mortola in Ventimiglia. It sprang into existenc...

  • The Open Conspiracy and Other Writings

    This volume contains H. G. Wells's 1928 work, "The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution". Wells describes the book as a “scheme to thrust forward and establish a human control over the destinies of life and liberate it from its prese...

  • Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island

    "Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island" is a 1928 novel by H. G. Wells. It tells the story of Arnold Blettsworthy who, after being betrayed by a business partner, is advised to go travelling in an attempt to recover from his severe disillusionment. Howe...

  • The Autocracy of Mr. Parham

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  • The Bulpington of Blup

    This volume contains H. G. Wells’s 1932 novel, "The Bulpington of Blup". It is an analysis of the psychological origins of opposition to Wellsian ideology, and was heavily influenced by the author’s relationship with Carl Jung and his seminal ide...

  • The Shape of Things to Come

    The Shape of Things to Come tells of an intellectual who dies and leaves behind a "dream book" inspired by visions that are remarkably prescient.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the ...

  • Things to Come

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    Things to Come is the 1936 release of London Films, produced from the 1935 "film story" by H.G. Wells, the text of the present work. The book includes more than 100 illustrations, most of them publicity stills that are all the more relevant because W...

  • The Croquet Player

    Something is horribly wrong in the remote English village of Cainsmarsh. An elderly woman stiffens in dread at her own shadow; a terrified farmer murders a scarecrow; food prepared by others is eyed with suspicion; family pets are bludgeoned to death...

  • The Man Who Could Work Miracles

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

  • Brynhild

    Rowland Palace was a success story " an outstanding scholar, he had gained renown for his worthy opinions even before he came down from Cambridge. It was only a matter of time before his first book was published, and then on to bigger and better th...

  • Star-Begotten

    In his 1898 War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells imagined aliens from Mars descending to Earth with violent intentions. In Star Begotten, first published in 1937, the suspicion arises that the Martians may have returned―this time using cosmic rays to alt...

  • The Camford Visitation

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  • Apropos of Dolores

  • The Brothers

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  • The Holy Terror

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  • All Aboard for Ararat

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  • Babes in the Darkling Wood

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  • You Can't Be Too Careful

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  • Collector's Book of Science Fiction

    This book contains the complete novels: The War of the Worlds, The First Men on the Moon and When the Sleeper Wakes. Also included are a variety of short stories, including the noted The Country of the Blind, The Empire of the Ants, The Valley of Spi...

  • The Happy Turning & Mind at the End of Its Tether

    This volume contains the two last works by HG Wells. Nearing the end of his life, increasingly distressed over the war, Wells deals with death and apocalypse, mortality and religion, and with “human insufficiency.”
     
    Mind at the End of its...

  • Collected Short Stories

    Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946), better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer most famous today for the science fiction novels he published between 1895 and 1901: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invi...

  • Bravo

    The first and greatest modern portrayal of time travel When a Victorian scientist propels himself thousands of years into the future, he finds peace and beauty -- and the Eloi, a gentle elfin species descended from man who fear the Morlocks, a si...

  • The Lost Treasure Map

    Treasure is buried away for centuries in a secret chamber. The only clues to its whereabouts are an ancient riddle: where the last dwell, the markings on a tomb, and legends of treasure, of ancient curses, and of hauntings by witches passed down thro...

  • The Sicilian Scenario

    A potential blockbuster action adventure thriller of an ultimate 21st century global terrorist situation, with global terrorists acquiring a mass of atomic weapons!The assault and execution of an atomic explosion at a South Pacific military base, the...

  • The Black Hole Experiments

    A new mind-bending sci-fi/adventure thriller, with two novelettes of ancient alien artifacts that explorers uncover, and of them taking them beyond space and time, with them marooned and racing to escape. Scientists uncover a pulsating alien sphere o...

  • Voyages Beyond the Universe

    A twenty-first century mind-bending sci-fi adventure classic, with two novelettes on the discovery of alien artifacts, which lead to voyages beyond the boundaries of space and time, with the explorers marooned and racing to escape. An entity/life for...

  • The Haunting of Grovnor Castle

    For centuries a secret chamber is buried away at Grovnor Castle, with something unearthly inside, waiting to be revived - haunting the place, and opening gateways - going beyond the universe. Unexplainable legends of the place are told through genera...

  • Dormant

  • From Beyond Space And Time

  • Senator Bradbury and the DX1 Seizure

  • Mind-Bending Tales of Discoveries from Beyond the Universe

  • The Alien Sphere

    A science fiction classic with two novelettes about the discoveries of alien artifacts and explorers being taken beyond the boundaries of space and time!At the end of the twenty-first century scientists with the United Nations Space Agency, operating...

  • The Alien Artifact

    A new 21st century movie-style sci-fi adventure classic An entity/transcendent in an alien artifact from beyond space and time crashes into the Earth, and explorers uncover the ancient alien artifact after it has been buried away for millions of yea...

  • The Alien Artifact 2

    A new spectacular potential blockbuster sci-fi/horror adventure classic, and sequel to The Alien Artifact Scientists, military, archeologists, and explorers uncover a fifteen-mile alien artifact, from beyond reality, after it has been buried away fo...

  • The Monsters from Beyond Reality

  • From Beyond Space and Time 2

    Scientists, military, archeologists, hunters, and treasure explorers uncover a lost world of Jurassic dinosaurs, and what they think are unknown early or last dinosaur species, with other strange life forms, trapped in an immense crater, surrounded b...

  • The Time Probe

  • The Alien Source Code (Part I)

  • The Ancient Alien Artifacts

  • The Lost Alien Probe

  • The Lost Treasure Map 2

    A classic action thriller of the adventures of treasure explorers exploring an immense unexplored castle and region and its hauntings as they hunt for treasure that has been buried away for centuries, with no precise proof of its existence even after...

  • The Alien Source Code (Part II)

  • The Best Horror, Weird Science, and Ghost Stories

    Our mission is to provide the world with beautiful, accessible, illuminating editions of classic horror fiction, introducing these chilling gems to new generations, making them gorgeously illustrated and giving you critical, historical, and artistic ...

  • Twelve Stories and a Dream

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    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.In truth the mastery of flying was the work of thousands of men " this man a suggestion and that an experiment, until at last only one vigorous intellectual effort was needed to finish the work. But the i...

  • The Valley of Spiders

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    The Valley of Spiders is a short story by H. G. Wells. Herbert George "H. G." Wells (21 September 1866 " 13 August 1946) was an English writer, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other ge...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

H.G. Wells has published 139 books.

H.G. Wells does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Best Horror, Weird Science, and Ghost Stories, was published in November 2014.

The first book by H.G. Wells, The Chronic Argonauts, was published in January 1888.

No. H.G. Wells does not write books in series.
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