H.G. Wells Collection

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Enjoy ELEVEN classics in one Kindle edition with an active table of contents.

The collection contains: Ann Veronica,
In the Days of the Comet,
Love and Mr. Lewisham,
The First Men in the Moon,
The Invisible Man,
The Island of Dr. Moreau,
The Time Machine,
The War in the Air,
The War of the Worlds,
Twelve Stories and a Dream,
and When the Sleeper Wakes.

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Customer Reviews

Amazing
This is the best book of a collection of H.G. Wells that I've found! It lets you go straight to the book and to what chapter you want to start on right away. You don't have to go through alot of books's own chapters to get to the book that you want like others that I've bought on my Kindle. I highly recommmend this anyone who loves H.G. Wells and wants to have some of his famous books there, this is the one for you then.

2010-02-15 (Texas) | Helpful Votes: 9 | Rating: 5

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A very great writer...
I have read "The Time Machine", "War of the Worlds", and "First Men in the Moon"; all are excellent. I can't comment on this format since I haven't purchased it. By the way all of Jules Verne's novels are excellent also.

2000-08-27 | Chris (Buena Park, CA United States) | Helpful Votes: 7 | Rating: 5

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The Island of Doctor Moreau (Optimized for Kindle)

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On a lonely island in the Pacific, the victims of a shipwreck wash ashore. They find a land like no other, a private empire, populated by grotesque human-like creatures, and ruled by a sinister scientist.

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Customer Reviews

Finally ... FINALLY discovering H.G. Wells
Growing up, I put H.G. Wells in the company of Jules Verne who wrote ahead-of-their-time stories that were basically adventure stories. I unfortunately turned up my nose at Wells having never read any of his books other than War of the Worlds.

Flash forward three or four decades and I found a reference to Wells' The Island of Doctor Moreau in a much more modern novel, James Hynes' Kings of Infinite Space. (Now there's the kind of book I enjoy ... caustic humor and biting satire.) To make a long story short, I was bored and looking for a little light reading. That's when I remembered the reference to Wells' novel and purchased it for my Kindle.

Even before I had finished The Island of Doctor Moreau I had ventured back online to download two more books by Wells. Despite being written more than a century ago, the book is even more relevant now than when it was first penned. Granted, science has gone much further than Moreau with his transfusions and surgical procedures, but Wells' exploration of the nature of humanity and humanity's relation to its maker is timeless.

I had forgotten what a utopian thinker Wells was in his day and was pleasantly surprised to be reminded of that fact. The only caveat I would suggest is that there are a few unflattering racial and ethnic comments made in the book (but given the world in which the book was written, this is a very small complaint).

2010-08-30 (Kansas City, MO) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4

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awesome
great book, great conversion to kindle and great price! I dont read much but this book seems to have brought me back to books.....in digital form at least

2010-08-23 (NJ) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Thought Provoking
Reading The Island of Doctor Moreau for the first time was amazing. I've spent 30 plus years with every book I could find on our own ancient history trying to find out where we came from, and I can't help but wonder if H.G. Wells knew something of that history when he wrote his book. In Zacharia Sitchen's work we have the scientist Enki going off the experiment on the local animals to produce a hybrid between his species and the local ape-like creature to produce modern man. Is it merely a coincident or was Wells mining ancient cellular memories.

While Enki did gene-splicing and worked with his sister, (genesis means beginnings/gene of isis) Moreau had his drunken assistant Montgomery. In the Island, the Moreau predicts that the animals will revert back to animals(mark of the beast he calls it) and they do once they see and taste blood. Is that Wells' commentary on mankind, that we revert to beasts once we taste blood(wars)? I also equated the Mark of the Beast that Wells talked about with Revelation and the dreaded Mark Of The Beast which is thought to be a computer chip to some. Maybe it's just us turning back into the beasts our creators brought us up from. Tasting blood does seem to turn us into beasts.

I think this book should be read with Sitchen's work to see the parallels of how we might have been brought up from beasts by a consciousless creator to satisfy his curiosity and test his skills. How Moreau's assistant felt sympathy for the beasts and wanted to teach and befriend them. Enki was sympathetic to his 'beast creations' and wanted to save them from his brother Enlil. Enlil wanted to destroy the beasts(flood) because they sickened him and the beasts wouldn't follow the Law.

Spoiler-read no further.

I especially liked how when Moreau was killed by one of his beasts, Montgomery told the beasts that Moreau wasn't dead he'd just dropped his form to go up to heaven, and that the law still applied, and their creator would be watching from above. Sounds just like a priest trying to stay in power and keep the beasts, who were in the majority from killing him.

When Pendrick finally gets off the island, he finds he can no longer live with the rest of humanity because he keeps seeing a shadow of the beast in their faces. Absolutely amazing book. Read it and have it haunt you for the rest of your life.

When I Dream

2010-07-16 | Robin Landry, Author of "When I dream" (Seatac, WA United States) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Excellent book
H.G. Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau is a very good book. When I got it the Kindle version was free, so a good deal. I don't like having to pay for public domain books, but I like having them to carry with me. This is very thought provoking and not one you can easily forget. The novel is a sort of commentary on what it is to be human. The science fiction used is a little difficult to suspend disbelief for, what with modern biological knowledge of genetics, but it isn't something that really interferes with the story. A very interesting read, I strongly recommend The Island of Dr. Moreau.

2010-06-07 (Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX USA) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 4

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why pay so much?
this is just about a specific edition which sells for three times (!?) what it should. stick with the better editions- like The Island Of Doctor Moreau which are a third of the cost

2010-06-02 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Invisible Man

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The Annotated H.G. Wells, 3 The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance: A Critical Text of the 1897 New York First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices (Annotated Hg Wells)

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H.G. Wells barely revised The Invisible Man once it was published, adding only an epilogue. But the opening statement of that epilogue-"So ends the strange and evil experiment of the Invisible Man"-has posed challenges to scholars. How to understand it? Does it speak strictly to the scientific elements of the novel? Or is it a part of the work's political underpinnings? The 1897 New York first edition (the first edition to incorporate the epilogue) is used here as the basis for the exhaustive annotations and other critical apparatus of the world's foremost Wellsian scholar.

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Customer Reviews

What is unseen
Imagine if you were invisible and could come and go as you pleased, with nobody able to see you. Cool, right? Well, not really. H.G. Wells' "The Invisible Man" has the sci-fi master exploring what would happen if a person took an invisibility elixir, and discovered too late that invisibility has some definite downsides. It's possibly Wells' funniest novel, but it also has some wonderfully chilling moments.

A strange man arrives at a hotel in Iping, wrapped up in goggles, bandages, scarves, and heavy clothes. He spends most of his time hidden away in his room, doing odd scientific experiments, and avoiding contact with other people -- while still keeping everything except his nose hidden. Meanwhile, the local vicar and his wife are robbed by a mysterious thief... who is completely invisible.

Well, you can guess what's up with the stranger -- he's an invisible man, and after a blowup with his landlady he reveals his true.... um, lack of appearance to the entire town. After a series of disastrous encounters, the Invisible Man encounters Dr. Kemp, an old friend to whom he reveals how he became invisible, and what he's done since then... as well as his malevolent plans for the future.

H.G. Wells isn't really known for being a funny writer, but the first part of "The Invisible Man" is actually mildly hilarious. He writes the first third or so of the book in a fairly light, humorous style, and there are some fun scenes speckled through the story, like a homeless man dealing with the Invisible Man ("Not a bit of you visible--except-- You 'aven't been eatin' bread and cheese?").

But things get much darker after Mr. Kemp enters the scene, and we find out that the Invisible Man is... well, kind of malevolent and crazy. Very crazy.

And as the plot grows darker and grimmer, Wells also inserts a clever (if far-fetched even by Victorian standards) explanation for how a person could become invisible, using a mix of science and fantasy. The plot hurtles through wild chase scenes and the occasional riot, and some moments of bleak tension ("When dawn came to mingle its pallor with the lamp-light and cigar smoke of the dining-room, Kemp was still pacing...")

The Invisible Man himself (aka Griffin) is a pretty mysterious character for most of the story, since all we know about him is that he's invisible.... and also kind of a jerk. I mean, the guy constantly flies off the handle and even robs a nice little old vicar. And the more we find out about him, the more malignant and insane he turns out to be.

Even if you had a way to become invisible, "The Invisible Man" would be a pretty effective way of dissuading people from using it. A deserving classic.

2010-08-31 | ea_solinas (MD USA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Invisibility as a Result of Science
H.G. Wells was a scientific man. He wrote this book in the burgeoning scientific society (The book is published in 1897), which was to transform the entire world in the 20.th century. H.G. Wells was acutely curious about the most far reaching possiblities of science. This book actually ponders upon a scientific theory about making matter invisible. According to this theory matter is visible because it is granulated. Wells gives an example with glass: When glass is whole it is transparent and you can look through it. If you break the class and crushes it into a powder, you granulate the glass and makes it into a white powder, which is not transparent. It is the uneven surfaces of the granules which makes them non-transparent. If you can smoothen these surfaces of the granules you can make matter more transparent. Wells gives an example with paper. We can't look through paper because it is made of tiny paper fragments with uneven surfaces. But if you poor oil on the paper it has the effect of smoothening the jagged surfaces of the paper fragments making up the piece of paper, thus the paper is becoming more transparent. This is fundamentals of the theory which the scientist of the novel, Griffin, uses to make himself invisible.

2010-08-09 (Copenhagen, Denmark) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 3

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Okay.
Not really what I was expecting but now I can at least say I read it.

2010-03-06 | Didir1010 (Orlando, FL) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 3

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ehhhhh
I expected this story to be similar to Frankenstein or Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde but it wasn't. In those two books the researchers/scientists struggled with the morals of their work. The story revolved around the struggle of IF they should have done what they did and the results of their actions.

The Invisible Man could have been titled The Violent Man. It basically followed the events of Griffin who, while invisible, hurts, burns, and kills people at every turn. There really was no story, lesson, moral or point.

I do give kudos to Wells in that his fight scenes were very well written.

2010-02-24 | Jenna (Upper Midwest) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 3

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H. G. Wells
One of H. G. Wells' most known story, adapted to film and television many times, this one of a kind tale tells the story of a scientist who makes himself his own experiment.

2010-02-22 | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5

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The Time Machine

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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.' The narrator of the story, the 'Time Traveller' is an English scientist who invents a machine that he claims can carry a person through time. Upon testing his machine, the Time Traveller is transported to AD 802,701, a future world where mankind is split between the childlike, gentle Eloi and the brutish Morlocks. When he attempts to return home, he discovers that the Morlocks have stolen his machine and he is stranded. The Time Machine follows the Time Traveller as he attempts to reclaim his machine from the barbaric Morlocks, transporting himself onward to a world that is 30 million years from his own time. Here he experiences some of the last living things on the planet as earth is slowly beginning to die. Wells' grim vision of a world in decline is recognised as one of the seminal texts of the science fiction genre, exploring the themes of inequality, class and the relationship between science and society.

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Customer Reviews

Time travel and politics
In my opinion, this book gets an "A" for originality. Most stories of time travel that I have read or watched on the big screen include super intelligent humans and fantastic technology. Not so in "The Time Machine." The two distinct races of humans in this book are simple and animalistic, or perhaps child-like. There is no incredibly advanced technology or even a grocery store to get the food, for goodness' sake. It's as if humanity reverted to the times of the Neanderthals. However, in the area of character development, Wells scores a "C" at best. None of the characters are terribly deep and I didn't find myself getting terribly attached to any of them -- few though they were. In storytelling, I think Wells did a nice job, as I was engaged in the narrative and enjoyed the description of places, things, and people. However, I was also vaguely aware of some kind of social commentary with the frequent references to the "upper class" and "working class," but I'm afraid this was lost on me, as I am not familiar with the culture of 1800s England. Overall, I give this book four stars.

2010-08-28 | Rock on and be awesome. (Earth) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4

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Wells Was Far Ahead Of His Time!
This is a cool book from Wells. In it he takes a giant leap into the future, more precisely year A.D. 802701! This is an action packed novel, it's really quite amazing that it was first published all the way back in 1895! Because the action level is equivalent to a Dan Brown novel. Of course Wells is far better than Dan Brown, because Wells is not only action he is also vitamin! The novel ends with the words "in the heart of man". That end is kind of a signature for Wells' work, because he was really curious, and of course the curiousity was particular related to what a human can do? What a human is? What a human can become? What there is in the heart of man?

2010-08-10 (Copenhagen, Denmark) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4

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Thank You =)
Thank you, My nephew loves his book.
It was fast shipping, and good price.

2010-07-20 | Nikki (Baltimore MD) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Great time travel
The Time Machine is one of those books I'd been meaning to read for years and finally got around to it this summer. I'm a sci-fi fan and enjoyed Wells's book, which was one of the first well known time travel stories ever written. It's a concise story without any unnecessary fluff, which makes it exciting all the way through.

2010-07-15 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Beautiful Cover!
This is not a book review.. rather a compliment on the beautiful cover art! Great job John and congrats!

2010-07-09 | ~Geek Girl (Phoenix, AZ) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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The Works of H.G. Wells (40+ works with an actie table of contents)

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Thousands of pages of H.G. Wells make up this collection; all his major works are here, as well as dozens of others. An active table of contents makes it easy to find the right work.

Works include:
Ann Veronica
Anticipations
Certain Personal Matters
Conversations with an Uncle
The Country of the Blind and Other Stories
The Crystal Egg
The Door in the Wall and Other Stories
An Englishman Looks at the World
The First Men in the Moon
First and Last Things
Floor Games
The Food of the Gods and How It Came To
God the Invisible King
The History of Mr. Polly
In the Days of the Comet
The Invisible Man
The Island of Doctor Moreau
Kipps
Little Wars
Love and Mr. Lewisham
Mankind in the Making
A Modern Utopia
Mr. Britling Sees It Through
The New Machiavelli
New Worlds for Old
Outline of History
Passionate Friends
The Red Room
The Research Magnificent
The Secret Places of the Heart
The Sleeper Awakes
The Soul of a Bishop
Space and Time
The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents
The Time Machine
Tono-Bungay
Twelve Stories and a Dream
The War of the Worlds
War and the Future
The War in the Air
What is Coming?
The Wheels of Chance
When the Sleeper Wakes
The World Set Free

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Customer Reviews

No TOC
I am not sure what 'actie' means, but there is no toc in this book, making it unusable. A waste of money.

2010-08-21 | Gadget Freak and Computer Nerd (Holmes, NY United States) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 1

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