H G Wells - Böcker

Sommaren 1901 faller en mängd meteorliknande föremål över jorden. Vad som till en början ser ut som harmlösa metallcylindrar visar sig snart vara farkoster skickade från Mars, och inledningen på det som ska bli en fullskalig invasion av vår planet...

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Med Frankenstein, Den osynlige mannen, Ringaren av Notre Dame och Dr Jekyll och Mr Hyde. Få serietidningar har varit lika lästa och älskade som Illustrerade Klassiker. Amerikanen Al Kanters snilleblixt att göra serieversioner av »Berömda berättare...

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No home library is complete without the classics! H. G. Wells is a keepsake collection of the author's greatest work to be read and treasured. He was the first to popularize the concept of time travel. He disturbed--and fascinated--us with a frigh...

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Det här var inte vad han hade väntat sig. Uppfinnaren från London har anlänt till en avlägsen framtid. Omedelbart blir hans tidsmaskin stulen. Strandad i en värld fylld av mirakel och förfall söker han efter en väg hem och finner en dold ondska. T...

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Engelsmannen Edward Prendick räddar sig från ett sjunkande skepp i land på en ö i Söderhavet. Ön tillhör den mystiske vetenskapsmannen doktor Moreau. Snart upptäcker Prendick att doktorn gör de mest fruktansvärda experiment genom att skapa människ...

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'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...

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Now you can read books in Chinese that are fun and accelerate your language learning. Every book in the Mandarin Companion series is carefully written to use characters, words, and grammar that a learner is likely to know. Level 1 is written using...

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Tidigt 1890-tal syns rökpuffar på planeten Mars. Forskarna tror att det är vulkaner men några veckor senare börjar meteoriter falla på jorden. Invasionen är ett faktum! Världarnas krig är en ögonvittnesskildring av marsianernas misslyckade invasio...

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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the de...

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En främling helt inlindad i bandage anländer en engelsk by. Han tillbringar tiden ensam med hemliga experiment. Men när mystiska inbrott begås i byn är det honom som man misstänker och kaos utbryter. H.G. Wells Den osynlige mannen utkom 1897 och r...

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H G Wells roman Tidsmaskinen i nyöversättning och med efterord av Christian Ekvall. H G Wells var först! Med sin roman Tidsmaskinen (The Time Machine) från 1895 inledde han den idag så stora genren med resor i tiden. Det är en stämningsfull berätt...

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With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin - the new guest at The Coach and Horses - is at first assumed to be a shy accident-victim. But the true reason for his disguise is ...

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H. G. Wells (1866-1946), författaren till bland annat romanen Världarnas krig från 1898 räknas som en av science fiction-litteraturens upphovsmän och hör till genrens verkliga giganter. Novellen De blindas rike publicerades första gången 1904 och ...

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The Penguin English Library Edition of The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells 'That black figure, with its eyes of fire, struck down through all my adult thoughts and feelings, and for a moment the forgotten horrors of childhood came back...

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Now in paperback, and accompanied by Edward's Gorey's masterful, timelessly haunting illustrations, H. G. Wells's classic story of alien invasion.When massive, intelligent aliens from Mars touch down in Victorian England and threaten to destroy th...

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Mr. Britling Sees It Through is H.G. Wells's "masterpiece of the wartime experience in England." The novel was published in September 1916. Mr. Britling Sees It Through tells the story of a renowned writer, Mr. Britling, a protagonist who is quite...

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Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of the First World War, this is a brilliantly compelling account of the evolution of life and the development of the human race. Along the way, Wells considers such diverse subjects as the Neolithic...

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In The Time Machine an inventor travels to the remote future where he finds both love and terror. The protagonist of The Invisible Man struggles to come to terms with his condition in a narrative which is by turns comic and tragic. The War of the ...

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The Wonderful Visit is an 1895 fantasy novel by H. G. Wells. An other-worldly creature visits a small English village, and H. G. Wells uses humour and satire to convey some of the imperfections of Victorian society, as 'angel" and humans view each...

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This collection includes The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The War of the Worlds, The First Men in the Moon and The Invisible Man - all collected in a stunning leather-bound omnibus. Five of the best science fiction novels by the Gran...

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The New Machiavelli is a 1911 novel by H. G. Wells (first serialized in The English Review in 1910). Because its plot notoriously derived from Wells's affair with Amber Reeves and satirized Beatrice and Sidney Webb, it was "the literary scandal of...

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Det här var inte vad han hade väntat sig. Uppfinnaren från London har anlänt till en avlägsen framtid. Omedelbart blir hans tidsmaskin stulen. Strandad i en värld fylld av mirakel och förfall söker han efter en väg hem och finner en dold ondska. T...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out In the first vol...

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Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting materia...

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A Victorian scientist and inventor creates a machine for propelling himself through time, and voyages to the year AD 802701, where he discovers a race of humanoids called the Eloi. Their gently indolent way of life, set in a decaying cityscape, le...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the Unit...

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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 ventures to the world that will be 802,701 A.D., And there he finds mankind divided among the...

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The Penguin English Library Edition of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells 'Great shapes like big machines rose out of the dimness, and cast grotesque black shadows, in which dim spectral Morlocks sheltered from the glare' Chilling, propheti...

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H. G. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called a "father of science fiction".

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