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Experience the original earth-shattering novel! Wells’ classic was written serially from 1895-1897, when steam locomotives and similar gargantuan machinery constituted the pinnacle of technological development. Now, relive the horrific wonder and amazement as aliens and their alien technology wreak havoc and mayhem in this world they’re determined to conquer.

If you had discovered a way to become invisible, would it bring you tremendous power? Or tremendous problems?

When the Lady Vain sank beneath the waves, the only survivor was Edward Prendick, who managed to make his way into a dingy. Without food or water and drifting, he is saved from the brink of destruction only to find himself cut off from humanity on an island where hideously cruel experiments are being carried out.

"The Magic Shop" by H.G. Wells is a classic tale that has withstood the test of time. You listen and it stays with you. Read by award-winning narrator, Mike Vendetti, you too can be transported into that magic shop where the magic is just too real. Only to be left wondering could that be?

A bumper collection of classic ghost stories and strange supernatural tales.

A superb collection of captivating short stories by leading classic writers, including 'The Cone' by H. G. Wells, 'The Dream Woman' by Wilkie Collins, 'Fortunes Adrift' by Charles John Cutcliffe Hyne, 'The Kidnapping of Phil Altamore' by Ella Hepworth Dixon, 'The Table Under the Tree' by E. Phillips Oppenheim, 'In Yeddo Bay' by Jack London and many more gripping short stories by famous writers.

"Mentre avanzavo mi convinsi sempre più che, in quella parte del mondo, fatta eccezione per qualche sbandato come me, lo sterminio dell'umanità era ormai compiuto". "La guerra dei mondi" ("The War of the Worlds") è uno dei primi romanzi del genere fantascientifico ed è anche l'opera più famosa di Wells.

"The wonderful visit" fu una delle prime tre opere di Wells, pubblicata nel 1895, anno in cui pubblicò anche "La macchina del tempo". Nel racconto lungo si parla di un angelo, atterrato su questo mondo, e non riconosciuto nella sua qualità di visitatore angelico. Il rapporto fra i mondi, situazioni spazio temporali diverse, l'esistenza di una vita oltre la vita, costituiscono il substrato del racconto, oltre che essere un tema dominante nella scrittura di Wells; e non è un caso che il racconto venne dedicato al suo acaro amico, morto di polmonite quello stesso anno.

What would it be like to be invisible? What would you do? What if you couldn't change back? Griffin, an albino, unlikable, the most gifted physicist the world has ever seen, works himself almost to madness in his quest for invisibility. Once he succeeds, he does not care for it as much as he expected to. Cold, jostled by strangers, attacked by dogs - unable even to eat without becoming visible, he comes to the conclusion that invisibility is good for only one thing - for killing.

Great Animal Stories, featuring 25 beastly tales.

Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946) was a prolific English writer of science fiction stories and novels, and is credited as being the father of science fiction. 'The Cone' is a sinister story of betrayal, revenge, murder and horror. The ironmaster who manages the huge blast furnaces outside Newcastle shows the friend who has betrayed him with his own wife around the ironworks. A very dangerous environment to be alone with an enemy....

In this groundbreaking tale by H. G. Wells, a Victorian-era time traveller explores a distant and dystopian future populated by fragile Eloi and bestial Morlocks underground....

Here are legendary director, producer, screenwriter, author, and actor Orson Welles' historic interpretations of excerpts from classic literature. Includes selections from Oscar Wilde's "The Happy Prince', H.G. Wells' "The Red Room", Saki's "Shredni Vashtar", Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Sharer", Rudyard Kipling's "Riki-Tikii-Tavi", Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Wakefield", Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell Tale Heart", and Robert Louis Stevenson's "Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde".

A fascinating collection of classic short stories featuring unusual ways of making a living, including 'The Umbrella-Mender' by Beatrice Harraden, 'The Triumphs of a Taxidermist' by H. G. Wells, 'A Pair of Silk Stockings' by Kate Chopin, 'A Skinful of Trouble' by Arthur Morrison, 'White Magic' by Ella d'Arcy, 'A Deal in Ostriches' by H. G. Wells, and many more.

Griffin es un joven científico con aspiraciones de lograr algo revolucionario en el campo de la ciencia. Tras largos y penosos experimentos, consigue obtener un producto capaz de hacer invisibles a objetos, animales y, por fin, también a personas. Él mismo realiza el experimento de hacerse invisible y da resultado. Pero es precisamente entonces cuando comenzarán sus verdaderos problemas.

En La Máquina del tiempo el autor narra la historia de cómo un científico de finales del siglo XIX viajó a través del tiempo con la intención de conocer el futuro de la humanidad, se desplazó hasta el año 802.701, pero lejos de encontrar una sociedad en la plenitud de su desarrollo, ve un mundo en decadencia habitado en su superficie por unos seres hedonistas, los Eloi, sin escritura, ni inteligencia ni fuerza física.

Thirty little gems by some of the world's great classic short story writers, including: 'The Flying Man' by H. G. Wells, 'Between Rounds' by O. Henry, 'A School Story' by M. R. James, 'A Pair of Silk Stockings' by Kate Chopin, 'A Deal in Ostriches' by H. G. Wells, 'The Piano Next Door' by Elia W. Peattie, 'Royal Visitors' by E. F. Benson, 'The Stolen Bacillus' by H. G. Wells, 'The Story of Chugoro' by Lafcadio Hearn, 'One Law for the Rich' by Stacy Aumonier, 'My Enemy and Myself' by Vincent O'Sullivan and more.

Английский учёный-физик Гриффин изобрёл машину, делающую человека невидимым. Правда, для полной невидимости человек должен был быть альбиносом, каковым Гриффин и являлся. Ученный не хотел раньше времени обнародовать своё открытие, чтобы позже создать тем большую сенсацию. Однако обстоятельства сложились так, что из-за материальных затруднений он не мог продолжать свою работу. У него появилась идея "исчезнуть" и начать совершенно новую жизнь в качестве невидимки.

A captivating collection of 60-minute classic stories by great writers.

Der vierte Teil des epischen Hörspiels in vier Teilen. 1898: Das Team einer Polarexpedition entdeckt im Eis einen brodelnden Krater und geht zunächst von einem Meteoriten aus. Bald aber mehren sich die Einschläge überall auf der Welt - Vorboten eines Vernichtungsfeldzuges, dem die Menschheit nichts entgegenzusetzen hat.