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Wells had a keen interest in the political and social issues of his day, one of the most significant of which was the outbreak of the First World War. This book, written in 1916, presents the story of Mr Britling, a political commentator, living in comfortable security in his country estate at Matchings Easy, in Essex. He entertains a varied assembly of guests, including Mr Direck, an American journalist, and Herr Heinrich, a German philology student who acts as a family tutor, and the general atmosphere is a hectic social whirl.

In the quaint British town of Clayton, young William, affectionately known as Willie, grapples with his passion for socialism and his desire to shift power from the elite to the working class. As tensions rise with Germany, Willie finds himself in a tumultuous love affair with Nettie, who ultimately elopes with a wealthy suitor. Consumed by heartbreak and jealousy, Willie plots revenge, but as he prepares to confront the lovers, the sky darkens with the ominous presence of a comet, casting a green glow over the landscape. Just as chaos erupts with battleships bombarding the coast, Willie is ...

A brilliant collection of some of the finest old sea stories ever written. 'The Overcrowded Iceberg' by Morley Roberts, 'The Substitute' by W. W. Jacobs, 'Reparation' by J. D. Beresford, 'The Paradise Coal-Boat' by Charles John Cutcliffe Hyne, 'The Registered Packet' by J. S. Fletcher, 'Treasure Trove' by Neil Munro, 'The Vengeance of La Maraye' by J. S. Fletcher, 'The Sea-Raiders' by H. G. Wells, 'No Ships Pass' by Eleanor Smith....

Graham, an 1890s radical pamphleteer, was a young man when he finally resorted to medication for his insomnia and fell into a deep sleep. He wakes two hundred years later, still youthful, to an age of great marvels and scientific achievement - and a world whose strange underlying economy is that it is all his private property.

"The Door in the Wall" is the strange supernatural tale of a young boy who finds a door in a wall which leads to a beautiful magical garden full of wonderful people, animals and flowers. The rest of his life is spent searching for the door and the magical world again...but the door reveals itself again only at the most inconvenient moments, when he cannot spare the time to go through it. Until one night, finally, he finds the door again and goes back through....

In the summer of 1921, a disenchanted journalist escapes the rat race for a drive in the country. But Mr. Barnstaple’s trip exceeds his expectations when he and other motorists are swept 3,000 years into the future. The inadvertent time travelers arrive in a world that corresponds exactly to Barnstaple’s ideals: a utopian state, free of crime, poverty, war, disease, and bigotry. Unfettered by the constraints of government and organized religion, the citizens lead rich, meaningful lives, passed in pursuit of their creative fancies.

In "The Empire of the Ants", a gunboat is sent to assist the inhabitants of a town in the Upper Amazon against a plague of ants. They find a species of large black ant which has evolved advanced intelligence, makes tools, and organized aggression. When the boat reaches the town, there is no one, so the captain fires two gunboat shots and returns downriver.

This is the story of the caveman called Ugh-lomi. It is a love story from the Stone Age. In exile, Ugh-lomi learns to ride a horse, and to combine stone and wood to make an axe. He ultimately becomes the tribal leader.

Step into the thrilling world of a Victorian scientist who believes he has unlocked the secrets of time travel. As he journeys to the distant future, he discovers humanity has diverged into two very different races the Eloi, delicate and carefree beings living above ground, and the Morlocks, sinister underground dwellers who once served the Eloi but now prey on their innocence. Will he uncover the truth behind this strange new world? Join us for a captivating exploration of evolution and survival. - Summary by Cliff Stone

Three of the top horror novels of all time have been newly adapted into novellas, and are now side by side in this one audiobook. These world-famous monsters are familiar household names. These are the monsters that authors and filmmakers continue to draw from again and again. And these are stories that introduced them to the world over a century ago. So turn down the lights, and experience triple the action, suspense, chills, and thrills, as you listen to all three classic tales.

El valle de las arañas, quizás uno de los cuentos de H.G. Wells más conocidos, relata la invasión de una horda de arañas venenosas que amenaza con eliminar por completo a la humanidad. En este sentido, El valle de las arañas de H.G. Wells es, sin lugar a dudas, un verdadero clásico del relato fantástico, y posiblemente el mejor relato de terror de arañas de la época.

The first Spoken Ink collection of 15 superb short stories by H. G. Wells, who was a master of the form. Humour and wit abound in his writing, as does sharp social observation. A scientist shows an unusually interested stranger a deadly cholera bacillus he is developing in The Stolen Bacillus, The owner of five ostriches being transported on a ship to Europe (one of which has swallowed a valuable diamond) holds an auction of four of them in A Deal in Ostriches.

H.G. Wells (1866 -1946) - the master of the genre - created his "scientific romances" and set the standard for futuristic literature that also teemed with both social commentary and a prescient view of the world to come. Enjoy these two classics by the "father of science fiction".

A Victorian scientist travels far into the future, and finds that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment, and peace. He meets the Eloi, a species descended from man, but realizes that these beautiful people are just remnants of a once-great culture; they are now weak and afraid of the dark. The Eloi have reason to be afraid. In deep tunnels beneath their paradise lurks another race descended from humanity: the sinister Morlocks.

Trata de un profesor llamado Gibberne que en el ano 1899 invento una droga llamada el Nuevo Acelerador, como lo dice su nombre, acelera el cuerpo de quien lo toma, segun Gibberne no tiene rival en cuestion de medicamentos soporiferos, sedantes, etc. El Profesor llamo a su mejor amigo para comentarle sobre lo que podria hacer con la droga y tambien para que serviria.

À deriva, sem esperanças de sobreviver em alto mar, Prendick é resgatado por um navio e deixado numa pequena ilha. Lá, ele encontra seres de aparência grotesca, mescla de animais e homens... Não tarda a descobrir que são produtos das experiências do Dr. Moreau, um cirurgião exilado que realiza experimentos macabros em animais! Será que ele conseguirá escapar das garras desse doutor insano?

This collection of stories brings together the writings of some of the greatest authors of all time and contrasts ghost stories of different lands and languages.

The Ultimate Science Fiction Mega Collection contains 16 of the greatest science fiction works ever written.

A man builds a time machine and tells his dinner guests that he can travel through time. He leaves from dinner in his machine for three hours and has adventures that include going back in time hundreds of years and forward in time millions of years, where he finds strange and dangerous places from which he is lucky to escape from. He returns and tells them of his adventures and shows proof of his travels by providing strange items from his pocket.

"A Story of the Stone Age" is a short story written in 1897 by H. G. Wells. The story was featured in three parts between May and August 1897 in The Idler magazine, and was later released in collected editions. The story is set during the Stone Age, and tells of a caveman named Ugh-lomi, who bonds with the young woman Eudena and kills his rival, the de facto tribal leader Uya. Whilst in exile, Ugh-lomi becomes the first man to ride a horse, and to combine stone and wood to fashion an axe.