One Wednesday afternoon in late September, Ann Veronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have things out with her father that very evening. She had...
Year after year, in spite of monumental dangers, climbers return to the world's most difficult mountains, whether it's the cliffs of Yosemite or the peaks of the Himalaya. At these places, even the...
Recently I set myself to put down what I believe. I did this with no idea of making a book, but at the suggestion of a friend and to interest a number of friends with whom I was associated. We were...
The jolliest indoor games for boys and girls demand a floor, and the home that has no floor upon which games may be played falls so far short of happiness. It must be a floor covered with linoleum or...
A DREAM OF ARMAGEDDON
A MODERN UTOPIA
IN THE DAYS OF THE COMET
IN THE FOURTH YEAR
MEN LIKE GODS
THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON
THE INVISIBLE MAN
The ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU
THE MAN WHO COULD DO...
'The stranger came early in February ... He was wrapped up from head to foot, and the brim of his soft felt hat hid every inch of his face but the shiny tip of his nose.' After being evicted by his...
Wells weaves a story of scientific excess into a high-speed thriller. Montgomery, a brilliant but twisted biologists, is delivering exotic animals to his private island, when he rescues a...
Modern day practices such as gene-splicing and bioengineering are foretold in H.G. Well's haunting visionary fable. The book created a sensation when it first appeared in 1896, and Wells himself later...
LITTLE WARS is the game of kings - for players in an inferior social position. It can be played by boys of every age from twelve to one hundred and fifty - and even later if the limbs remain...
