H G Wells - Böcker

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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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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The Penguin English Library Edition of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells 'Death!' I shouted. 'Death is coming! Death!' In this pioneering, shocking and nightmarish tale, nave suburban Londoners investigate a strange cylinder...

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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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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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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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When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the aliens traverse the country in huge three-legged machines, incinerating all in their path with a heat ray and spreading noxious toxic gases, the peop...

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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 to m...

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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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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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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man the mystery, the power, the freedom. Griffin, a stranger, arr...

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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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'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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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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Det är i slutet av 1800-talet och jorden invaderas av onda varelser från Mars. De tänker utrota mänskligheten med sina hemska stridsmaskiner. Hur ska människorna kunna stå emot varelsernas eldstrålar och giftiga gas? I boken berättar ett ögonvittn...

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The Invisible Man is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1897. The Invisible Man is one of the most famous science fiction novels of all time. It tells the story of a scientist who discovers the secret of invisibility and us...

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After the Lady Vain is shipwrecked, Edward Prendick is plucked from the waves by a passing ship and deposited on a remote island. Here he is the guest of Dr Moreau, whose notorious scientific methods had caused an uproar that left him with no choi...

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Madge Pope är dotter till en vagnmakare som hamnat i ekonomiska bekymmer på grund av den nyuppfunna bilen. Rag är en vetenskapsman specialiserad på kristallografi. Trots att de båda är väldigt olika struntar de i Madges familjs invändningar och gi...

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Madge Pope är dotter till en vagnmakare som hamnat i ekonomiska bekymmer på grund av den nyuppfunna bilen. Rag är en vetenskapsman specialiserad på kristallografi. Trots att de båda är väldigt olika struntar de i Madges familjs invändningar och gi...

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Herbert George Wells was perhaps best known as the author of such classic works of science fiction as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds. But it was in his short stories, written when he was a young man embarking on a literary career, that he ...

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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 his centuries of slumber, however, investments are made that make him the richest and most powerful man ...

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With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Emily Alder, Lecturer in Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University 'Each time I dip a living creature into the bath of burning pain, I say: this time I will burn out all the animal, this time I will...

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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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Blast off into the unknown with this collection of ten classical works of science fiction and fantasy. Long before we ventured into outer space or explored the most remote regions of the planet, writers have spun stories of what might lie in those...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man left alive. When a strange, meteor-like object...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. That these man-like creatures were in truth only bestial monsters, mere grotesque travesties of men, filled me with a vague uncertainty of their possibilitie...

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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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Reprint. Originally published: 2002. With new afterword.

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Twenty-one, passionate and headstrong, Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her own life. When her father forbids her from attending a fashionable Ball, she decides she has no choice but to leave her family home and make a fresh start in Lon...

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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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