This ebook compiles H. G. Wells' complete novels, including "The Invisible Man", "The Time Machine", "The Island of Doctor Moreau" and "The War of the Worlds". This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lis...

Written between 1895 and 1897, H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds is one of the earliest stories that detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. Filmed numerous times, this science fiction classic retains its power to disturb readers more than a century later.

On an uncharted South Pacific island, the mad genius Doctor Moreau has found refuge. It’s here, away from London and the civilized world, that the scientist can conduct his experiments on animals without condemnation. When Edward Prendick, the sole survivor of a shipwreck, washes ashore, he bears witness to Moreau’s cruel research and its bloody, inevitable unraveling. In exploring the disquieting crossroads of scientific progress and ethical responsibility, Wells’s cautionary account of t...

From the author of The Magician's Daughter comes The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door, a mythic, magical tale full of secret scholarship, faerie curses, and the deadliest spells of all—the ones that friends cast on each other.All they needed to break the world was a door, and someone to open it.Camford, 1920. Gilded and glittering, England's secret magical academy is no place for Clover, a commoner with neither co...

When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that this beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture - now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. They have every reason to be afraid: in deep tunnels beneath their paradise lurks another race descended from humanity - ...

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work. 1. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) 2. The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri) 3....

The ultimate book-lovers fantasy, this sparkling debut is a "delight of magic and literature, love and adventure" (Kat Howard) featuring a young scholar with the power to bring literary characters into the world.For his entire life, Charley Sutherland has concealed a magical ability he can't quite control: He can bring characters from books into the real world.But when literary characters start causing trouble throughout the city and threatening to destroy ...

"That most rare and precious thing: a brand-new classic, both wholly original and wonderfully nostalgic." —Alix E. Harrow, New York Times bestselling authorIn the early 1900s, a young woman is caught between two worlds in H. G. Parry’s cozy tale of magic, miracles, and an adventure of a lifetime.Off the coast of Ireland sits a legendary island hidden by magic. A place of ruins and ancient trees, sea salt air, and fairy lore, Hy-Bra...

The original story by science-fiction author H.G. Wells that inspired the modern suspense film by the same name, starring Elisabeth Moss.An arrogant and reclusive scientist named Griffin has a theory: if one could adjust the refractive index of one's body to exactly that of air, one could disappear completely from sight. He conducts his experiment on himself, but his success is too great--he becomes fully invisible, but cannot reverse what has been done.His invisibility exc...

"Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us."H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds is a twist on Victorian invasion literature, telling the first-ever story of a Martian invasion of Earth.A mysterious alien cylinder lands just outside the town of Surrey, filled with grotesque ...

In the book that introduced the world to the idea of traveling through time, H.G. Wells offers a wild adventure story infused with political commentary. An unnamed dreamer obsessed with travelling to the future builds a machine that launches him into the year 802,701 AD. He is greeted by a society transformed by harmony, only to discover a dark, brutal world beneath his feet inhabited by a subterranean species that preys on the citizens who live above.The Time Machine is a...

First published in 1896, "The Island of Dr. Moreau" is a science fiction novel by English writer H.G. Wells. The classic work focuses on a mad scientist’s experiments involving vivisection to address such issues as evolution and ethics."The Island of Dr. Moreau" employs an old device, a bogus introduction to explain how the story that follows was found in the narrator’s papers at his death. The story itself exploits the well-known theme of the shipwrecked castaway, made famous by D...