H. G. Wells

Known as ‘The Father of Science Fiction’, Herbert George Wells’ writing career spanned over 60 years. He was a writer of novels, short stories, nonfiction books and articles....

One of the world’s most recognisable sci-fi stories, H. G. Wells’ The War of The Worlds established numerous conventions for the genre, including the threat of an invasive extraterrestrial species, space travel and intergalactic conflict....

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume Five is the fifth instalment of our wide-ranging classic collections.

Join actors from television's Star Trek as they recreate this classic radio thriller...

In A Short History of the World, H. G. Wells examines the origins of the Earth, and the development of life upon the planet, and then explores the history of human civilization from its earliest beginnings....

Tono-Bungay is very possibly H. G. Wells' finest novel, bringing together so many strands of his work....

A young boy unlocks a world of joy and imagination....

This classic early-19th-century science-fiction masterpiece serves as both a wonderful period presentation of the time as well as cautionary tale. Called by many a "chilling novel account of a Martian invasion of London in the 19th century - a science-fiction classic for all time". Made famous...

Wells’ dystopian fiction masterpiece! A man sleeps for 203 years, waking up in a completely transformed London in which he has become the richest man in the world. The future is revealed to him in all its horrors and malformities....

An impecunious businessman, Bedford, retreats to the Kent coast where he meets the archetypal absent-minded scientist who is on the point of producing a gravity-defying material. His experiments prove successful, making possible one of man’s oldest dreams: a journey to the moon....

H. G. Wells is rightly regarded as one of the founding fathers of the science fiction genre. This compilation comprises four of his finest sci-fi works....

The cliché is of the artist starving in his garret. Be it poet or author it seems romantic but lacks somewhat in the comforts and quality of life. Somewhat better then to live and write in perhaps the Classical Cultural centre of the world; Italy.

In Tales of the Unknown, Wells' series of 15 stories investigate "the other side"; that is, a fourth dimension where human beings enter into a world outside or parallel to our own....

The host of a dinner party tells an astonishing story of his travels into the future, where, at first, it seems that man has moved on to a higher plane of existence....

Mr. Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife's nagging and his dreary job as the owner of a regional gentleman's outfitters...

A stranger arrives in a small English town, wreathed in a hat, coat, goggles and bandages....

The War of the Worlds not only introduces the extraterrestrial element of brutal Martian forces on the rampage but also explores many other contemporary issues and themes....

Award winning narrator Mike Vendetti narrates H.G. Wells' account of a fictional invasion of England by Martians, vastly superior intellectually and militarily to humans....

Londres, les Martiens débarquent. Afin de préserver leur espèce, ils envahissent la Terre et sèment terreur et désolation...

In one of H. G. Wells' most celebrated works, the shipwrecked Edward Prendick finds himself alone on an island with the mad scientist Doctor Moreau. When he hears strange cries echoing through the forest, he discovers that the island is inhabited by bizarre human-hybrid creatures.