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  • AMAZING TALES VOLUME 98
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    AMAZING TALES VOLUME 98
    H. G. WELLS ET AL.
    Step into the extraordinary narratives of "Amazing Tales Volume 98", a captivating anthology offering unparalleled expedition. This collection transcends the ordinary confines of science fiction, plunging readers into a world where cosmic phenomena meet human tenacity and philosophical profundity. Embark on your celestial voyage with Wells' own masterpiece, "The Star", where an...

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  • THE CORRESPONDENCE OF H G WELLS VOL 4
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    THE CORRESPONDENCE OF H G WELLS VOL 4
    H G WELLS / DAVID SMITH / PATRICK PARRINDER
    This collection of H.G. Wells's correspondence draws on over 50 archives and libraries worldwide, including the papers of Wells's daughter by Amber Reeves. The book contains over 2000 letters, both business and personal. Wells's private correspondence includes letters to Winston Churchill. ...

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  • THE CORRESPONDENCE OF H G WELLS VOL 3
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    THE CORRESPONDENCE OF H G WELLS VOL 3
    H G WELLS / DAVID SMITH / PATRICK PARRINDER
    This collection of H.G. Wells's correspondence draws on over 50 archives and libraries worldwide, including the papers of Wells's daughter by Amber Reeves. The book contains over 2000 letters, both business and personal. Wells's private correspondence includes letters to Winston Churchill. ...

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  • THE CORRESPONDENCE OF H G WELLS VOL 1
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    THE CORRESPONDENCE OF H G WELLS VOL 1
    H G WELLS / DAVID SMITH / PATRICK PARRINDER
    This collection of H.G. Wells's correspondence draws on over 50 archives and libraries worldwide, including the papers of Wells's daughter by Amber Reeves. The book contains over 2000 letters, both business and personal. Wells's private correspondence includes letters to Winston Churchill. ...

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  • THE CORRESPONDENCE OF H G WELLS VOL 2
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    THE CORRESPONDENCE OF H G WELLS VOL 2
    H G WELLS / DAVID SMITH / PATRICK PARRINDER
    This collection of H.G. Wells's correspondence draws on over 50 archives and libraries worldwide, including the papers of Wells's daughter by Amber Reeves. The book contains over 2000 letters, both business and personal. Wells's private correspondence includes letters to Winston Churchill. ...

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  • THE FOOD OF THE GODS
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    THE FOOD OF THE GODS
    H.G. WELLS
    The groundbreaking science fiction classic by H.G. Wells Imagine a food…that could change the course of human history. In The Food of The Gods and How it Came to Earth, legendary science fiction author H.G. Wells provocatively chronicles this very idea: a food so powerful it transforms society as we know it. Two young scientists, Mr. Bensington and Professor Redwood, begin thei...

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  • MR. BELLOC OBJECTS TO
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    MR. BELLOC OBJECTS TO "THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY"
    H. G. WELLS
    Excerpt: "I am the least controversial of men. Public disputations have rarely attracted me. For years I have failed to respond to Mr. Henry Arthur Jones, who long ago invented a set of opinions for me and invited me to defend them with an enviable persistence and vigour. Occasionally I may have corrected some too gross public misstatement about me—too often I fear with the ace...

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  • THE DREAM A NOVEL
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    THE DREAM A NOVEL
    H. G. WELLS
    The Dream is a 1924 novel by H. G. Wells about a man from a Utopian future who dreams the entire life of an Englishman from the Victorian and Edwardian eras, Harry Mortimer Smith. As in other novels of this period, in The Dream Wells represents the present as an "Age of Confusion" from which humanity will be able to emerge with the help of science and common sense. ...

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  • THE RESEARCH MAGNIFICENT
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    THE RESEARCH MAGNIFICENT
    H. G. WELLS
    The story of William Porphyry Benham is the story of a man who was led into adventure by an idea. It was an idea that took possession of his imagination quite early in life, it grew with him and changed with him, it interwove at last completely with his being. His story is its story. (Goodreads) ...

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  • JOAN AND PETER THE STORY OF AN EDUCATION
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    JOAN AND PETER THE STORY OF AN EDUCATION
    H.G. WELLS
    Joan and Peter, a 1918 novel by H. G. Wells, is at once a satirical portrait of late-Victorian and Edwardian England, a critique of the English educational system on the eve of World War I, a study of the impact of that war on English society, and a general reflection on the purposes of education. Wells regarded it as "one of the most ambitious" of his novels. ...

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  • THE RED ROOM
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    THE RED ROOM
    H. G. WELLS
    The Red Room is a short Gothic story written by H. G. Wells in 1894. It was first published in the March 1896 edition of The Idler magazine. An unnamed protagonist chooses to spend the night in an allegedly haunted room, coloured bright red in Lorraine Castle. He intends to disprove the legends surrounding it. Despite vague warnings from the three infirm custodians who reside i...

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  • THE RUSSIAN HORIZON
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    THE RUSSIAN HORIZON
    N. GANGULEE, H. G. WELLS
    This book, first published in 1943, is a literary anthology purposefully presenting a picture of the Soviet Union to a new audience in the West. It collects together a rich variety of pre-revolutionary Russian literature as well as a host of Soviet literature. Together they reveal the dynamic character of Russian literature, and provide a useful contrast between the two styles ...

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  • THE SLEEPER AWAKES AND MEN LIKE GODS
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    THE SLEEPER AWAKES AND MEN LIKE GODS
    H.G. WELLS
    One man's hell is another man's heaven... In these two classic stories from the father of science fiction, H.G. Wells reveals two sides of the same coin: dystopia and utopia. The Sleeper Awakes What if you took a sleeping pill and awoke two centuries years later to find yourself the wealthiest man in the world? Everyone and everything you know is long gone ... but you are simul...

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  • THE STORY OF A GREAT SCHOOLMASTER
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    THE STORY OF A GREAT SCHOOLMASTER
    H. G. WELLS
    The Story of a Great Schoolmaster is a 1924 biography of Frederick William Sanderson (1857–1922) by H. G. Wells. It is the only biography Wells wrote. Sanderson was a personal friend, having met Wells in 1914 when his sons George Philip ('Gip'), born in 1901, and Frank Richard, born in 1903, became pupils at Oundle School, of which Sanderson was headmaster from 1892 to 1922. Af...

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  • KIPPS
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    KIPPS
    H.G. WELLS
    A mainstream novel about a young man coping with a sudden change in social status from the Father of Science Fiction. Foreword by Sheila Williams Until he reached manhood, it was not clear to Kipps how he came to be under the care of an aunt and uncle, instead of having a father and mother like other little boys. But the elusive memories of his phantom mother that plagued him b...

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  • THE WAR IN THE AIR
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    THE WAR IN THE AIR
    H.G. WELLS
    Come fly with Bert Smallways, a commoner with a comic, tragic, star-crossed, and high-flying fate, into a future that never was. Long out of print! A visionary novel by the author of The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine This classic, full-length novel from H. G. Wells imagines a world of progress stricken by brutal conflict in the sky—written before the actual invention o...

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  • THE UNDYING FIRE
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    THE UNDYING FIRE
    H. G. WELLS
    The Undying Fire, a 1919 novel by H. G. Wells, is a modern retelling of the story of Job. Like the Book of Job, it consists of a prologue in heaven, an exchange of speeches with four visitors, a dialogue between the protagonist and God, and an epilogue in which the protagonist's fortunes are restored. Wells believed that The Undying Fire contained some of his best writing. Whil...

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  • THE DREAM
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    THE DREAM
    H. G. WELLS
    Sarnac may have become a successful scientist, a leading light in the research of chemical reactions of cells, but he would never forget the dream. It was a dream he had had as a young child, a dream that was both beautiful and terrifying; frighteningly real and marvellously imaginary. And as Sarnac looks back on his childhood, he finds the world of his dreams and the reality h...

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  • THE DISCOVERY OF THE FUTURE
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    THE DISCOVERY OF THE FUTURE
    H. G. WELLS
    The Discovery of the Future is a philosophical lecture by H. G. Wells first delivered to the Royal Institution on January 24, 1902. Within it, Wells explores the 'knowability' of the future and the question of what is to come after man. This fascinating and thought-provoking lecture constitutes a must-read for fans of Wells' work, and it would make for a worthy addition collect...

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  • TWELVE STORIES AND A DREAM
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    TWELVE STORIES AND A DREAM
    H. G. WELLS
    Twelve Stories and a Dream -- "A Dream of Armageddon": "That book," he repeated, pointing a lean finger, "is about dreams. Dreams tell you nothing." I did not catch his meaning for a second. "They don't know," he added. I looked a little more attentively at his face. "There are dreams," he said, "and dreams." Also includes "Filmer," "The Magic Shop," "The Valley of Spiders," "T...

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  • BOON, THE MIND OF THE RACE
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    BOON, THE MIND OF THE RACE
    H. G. WELLS
    Boon is a 1915 work of literary satire by H. G. Wells. It purports, however, to be by the fictional character Reginald Bliss, and for some time after publication Wells denied authorship. Boon is best known for its part in Wells's debate on the nature of literature with Henry James, who is caricatured in the book. But in Boon Wells also mocks himself, calling into question and r...

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  • THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON
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    THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON
    H. G. WELLS
    The First Men in the Moon is a scientific romance by the English author H. G. Wells, originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from December 1900 to August 1901 and published in hardcover in 1901, who called it one of his "fantastic stories". The novel tells the story of a journey to the Moon undertaken by the two protagonists, a businessman narrator, Mr. Bedford, and an ecc...

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  • THE NEW MACHIAVELLI
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    THE NEW MACHIAVELLI
    H. G. WELLS
    A successful author and Liberal MP with a loving and benevolent wife, Richard Remington appears to be a man to envy. But underneath his superficial contentment, he is far from happy with either his marriage or the politics of his party. The New Machiavelli describes the disarray into which his life is thrown, when he meets the young and beautiful Isabel Rivers and becomes torme...

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  • A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WORLD
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    A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WORLD
    H. G. 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 & Co, Ltd Publishing in 1922. It was first published in Penguin Books in 1936. Later editions were published with updated accounts of world events. It was republished under Penguin Classics in 2006. The book was largely inspired by Wells's earlier ...

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  • THE PASSIONATE FRIENDS
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    THE PASSIONATE FRIENDS
    H. G. WELLS
    In this novel, Mr. Stratton wants very much to set down his thoughts and experiences of life. He wants to do so now that he has come to middle age and now that his attitudes are all defined and his personal drama worked out. He feels that the toil of writing and reconsideration may help to clear and fix many things that remain a little uncertain in his thoughts because they hav...

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  • THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY: BEING A PLAIN HISTORY OF LIFE AND MANKIND
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    THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY: BEING A PLAIN HISTORY OF LIFE AND MANKIND
    H. G. WELLS
    Having coined the phrase “the war that will end war,” H. G. Wells was disillusioned by the World War I peace settlement. Convinced that humanity needed to awaken to the instability of the world order and remember lessons from the past, the author of numerous science fiction classics set out to write about history. Wells hoped to remind mankind of its common past, provide it wit...

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  • THE FOOD OF THE GODS AND HOW IT CAME TO EARTH
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    THE FOOD OF THE GODS AND HOW IT CAME TO EARTH
    H. G. WELLS
    The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1904. Wells called it "a fantasia on the change of scale in human affairs. . . . I had hit upon [the idea] while working out the possibilities of the near future in a book of speculations called Anticipations (1901)." There have been various B-movie adaptations. The novel...

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  • THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU
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    THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU
    H. G. WELLS
    The Island of Doctor Moreau is a classic of early science fiction and remains one of Wells' best-known books. The novel is the earliest depiction of the science fiction motif "uplift" in which a more advanced race intervenes in the evolution of an animal species to bring the latter to a higher level of intelligence. It has been adapted to film and other media on many occasions,...

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  • THE SLEEPER AWAKES
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    THE SLEEPER AWAKES
    H. G. WELLS
    The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian science fiction novel by English writer H. G. Wells, about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London in which he has become the richest man in the world. The main character awakes to see his dreams realised, and the future revealed to him in all its horrors and malformities. ...

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  • THE SEA LADY
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    THE SEA LADY
    H. G. WELLS
    The intricately narrated story involves a mermaid who comes ashore on the southern coast of England in 1899. Feigning a desire to become part of genteel society, the mermaid's real design is to seduce Chatteris, a man she saw "some years ago" in "the South Seas—near Tonga," who has taken her fancy. This she reveals in a conversation with the narrator's second cousin Melville, a...

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