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Your purchase helps fund free educational resources at BompaCrazy.com!!! Enjoy FOURTEEN classics and two short story collections in one Kindle edition with an active table of contents.The collection contains:Ann VeronicaIn the Days of the CometLove and Mr. LewishamThe First Men in the MoonThe Food of the Gods and How It Came to EarthThe History of Mr. PollyThe Invisible ManThe Island of Dr. MoreauThe Time MachineThe War in the AirThe War of the WorldsThe Wheels of ChanceTono BungayWhen the Sleeper WakesStories by Herbert George WellsTwelve Stories and a Dream

Herbert George "H. G." Wells (1866 – 1946) was an English writer.He was prolific in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is called a "father of science fiction", along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). He was nominated for the Nobel Prize inLiterature four times.Here you will find all his novels in the chronological order of their original publication.- The Time Machine- The Wonderful Visit- The Island of Doctor Moreau- The Wheels of Chance- The Invisible Man- The War of the Worlds- Love and Mr Lewisham- The First Men in the Moon- The Sea Lady- The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth- Kipps- A Modern Utopia- In the Days of the Comet- The War in the Air- Tono-Bungay- Ann Veronica- The History of Mr Polly- The Sleeper Awakes- The New Machiavelli- Marriage- The Passionate Friends- The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman- The World Set Free- Bealby: A Holiday- Boon- The Research Magnificent- Mr. Britling Sees It Through- The Soul of a Bishop- Joan and Peter: The Story of an Education- The Undying Fire- The Secret Places of the Heart- Men Like Gods- The Dream- Christina Alberta's Father- The World of William Clissold- Meanwhile- Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island- The Autocracy of Mr. Parham- The Bulpington of Blup- The Shape of Things to Come- The Croquet Player- Brynhild- Star Begotten- The Camford Visitation- Apropos of Dolores- The Brothers- The Holy Terror- Babes in the Darkling Wood- You Can't Be Too Careful

Collected together here are seven of the most iconic novels of H. G. Wells, the father of science fiction himself. With each story, he presents a unique and exciting twist. In The Invisible Man, a scientist's experimentation with visibility goes disastrously wrong. The Time Machine features a traveller recounting his adventures into the future, and The Island of Doctor Moreau explores the terrifying boundaries of human and animal morality. Other stories included are The War of the Worlds, The First Men in the Moon, When the Sleeper Wakes and The World Set Free. This array of thrilling stories ranges from scenes of alien invasions to visions of dystopian futures.

"The Island of Dr. Moreau": While on a voyage in a small ship, Edward Prendick makes the mistake of sticking up for a deformed man that the sailors are tormenting. The result is that he is thrown off the ship when the man reaches his destination - an uncharted island. He is reluctantly rescued by the two scientists using the island for experiments. Prendick discovers that they are attempting to "humanize" various beasts and the hideous results of their experiments freely roam the island. Prendick's arrival upsets the delicate peace between them and the "animal-men" with catastrophic results."The Country of the Blind": In this famous fantasy story, a mountain climber falls into a strange and isolated society of non-seeing persons - claiming to have been in existence for 15 generations and cut off from the rest of the world by an earthquake. The interloper decides quickly that "In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." However, things turn out very differently than he had planned. The experience of being an "other" - a seeing man in a world of blind persons - is the major theme of this story."The Crystal Egg": In this short story, Mr. Cave, a shop owner, finds a strange crystal egg that serves as a window into a Martian landscape. The War of the Worlds was probably H. G. Wells' best-known work, but this brief tale indicates that he had more than a passing interest in Mars. The artifact that the title refers to would not seem too extraordinary today, but this brilliant prediction of robotic planetary exploration seemed fantastic in the early 20th century.

H. G. Wells' A Modern Utopia is a fusion of fiction and philosophy. In it Wells' explores his ideas for social change, the creation of a world state and of what would be needed to facilitate increases in overall human happiness. The people of this utopia have to plan for "a flexible common compromise, in which a perpetually novel succession of individualities may converge most effectually upon a comprehensive onward development." This is Wells' distinction from past conceptions of utopia, that its people aim to be Utopian and that they are essentially the same people that would exist in an ordinary society. Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought, generally known as Anticipations, was written by H.G. Wells at the age of 34.

"The Island of Dr. Moreau": While on a voyage in a small ship, Edward Prendick makes the mistake of sticking up for a deformed man that the sailors are tormenting. The result is that he is thrown off the ship when the man reaches his destination - an uncharted island. He is reluctantly rescued by the two scientists using the island for experiments. Prendick discovers that they are attempting to "humanize" various beasts and the hideous results of their experiments freely roam the island. Prendick's arrival upsets the delicate peace between them and the "animal-men" with catastrophic results."The Country of the Blind": In this famous fantasy story, a mountain climber falls into a strange and isolated society of non-seeing persons - claiming to have been in existence for 15 generations and cut off from the rest of the world by an earthquake. The interloper decides quickly that "In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." However, things turn out very differently than he had planned. The experience of being an "other" - a seeing man in a world of blind persons - is the major theme of this story."The Crystal Egg": In this short story, Mr. Cave, a shop owner, finds a strange crystal egg that serves as a window into a Martian landscape. The War of the Worlds was probably H. G. Wells' best-known work, but this brief tale indicates that he had more than a passing interest in Mars. The artifact that the title refers to would not seem too extraordinary today, but this brilliant prediction of robotic planetary exploration seemed fantastic in the early 20th century.

Wells was a pioneer of the science fiction genre and a man of boundless imagination. Whether he was describing marvellous new technologies, the vagaries of space flight or the risks of scientific development, he placed his characters at the heart of his stories. These carefully chosen novels illustrate the true breadth of his skills. This collection includes The First Men in the Moon, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The Island of Doctor Moreau, When the Sleeper Wakes and The Time Machine & Other Stories.

What if an angel fell to earth—and nobody liked him? That's the fascinating premise at the heart of this engrossing fantasy tale from science fiction master H. G. Wells. Penned around the same time Wells captured the world's imagination with novels like The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, The Wonderful Visit is a satisfying diversion for readers ready to let their imaginations run wild. Philosophically minded science fiction fans will rejoice in this novel from H.G. Wells, the author regarded as one of the originators of the genre who wrote classic gems such as The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The Island of Doctor Moreau. Though more grounded in realism than some of his other works, Tono-Bungay offers an interesting look into the morality of scientific discovery.