Autor H. G. Wells
"Wells is the Prospero of all the brave new worlds of the mind, and the Shakespeare of science fiction."- Brian Aldiss on H.G. WellsThis spectacular hardback collector's edition brings together 5 classic novels by H. G. Wells, presented with…
This striking hardback collection brings together over 35 classic short stories by masters of the fantasy genre, presented with silver cover accents and illustrated page edges.Containing short stories stories from the early masters of fantasy literature,…
This striking hardback collection brings together over 40 classic short stories by masters of the science fiction genre, presented with silver cover accents and illustrated page edges.For more than 100 years, science fiction writers have told tales of…
Travel into the future in this abridged retelling of The Time Machine, part of the bestselling Classic Starts® series that has sold more than 8 million copies! After inventing a time machine, the Traveler leaves Victorian London and goes far, far into…
A stunning full-colour illustrated adaptation of H. G. Wells' sci-fi classic, from the illustrator of A Boy Called Christmas, The Iron Man and Animal Farm.1894. Across space, this earth is being watched by envious eyes. What seems to be a meteorite falls…
Dej jedného z prvých dystopických románov sa odohráva v pretechnizovanom Londýne roku 2100, kde sa po vyše dvesto rokoch zobudí z kómy hlavný hrdina uprostred boja dvoch politických síl o moc. Wells na prelome 19. a 20. storočia zaujímavo odhadol vývojové…
Plunge into a trio of high-seas adventures! A perfectly curated gift for ocean lovers, this elegant boxed set houses three compelling classics in artful new editions. Stories for Seafarers brings together three timeless tales in one beautiful…
The Time Machine is the great, gleeful anarchist novel of the 1890s. It is both a thrilling adventure story and a satire on religion, evolution and human hopes. With this book, Wells invented an entirely new genre and did it better than any of his imitators.An…
This chilling collection brings together 15 classic tales by landmark gothic writers, including Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Sheridan Le Fanu, presented in a luxury hardback edition with striking sprayed edge designs.Gothic fiction emerged in the 18th…
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. From…
In 1894, across space, this earth was being watched by envious eyes, and plans were being drawn up for an attack. What seems to be a meteorite falls to earth, but from the debris, unfolds terrifying alien life... A young man called Leon records his observations…
Nova kniha Budúcnosť nášho sveta. Prosperita alebo smrť? obsahuje dve prekvapivo relevantné dnes publicistické práce G. Wellsa. Dva diela minulého storočia: „Nový svetový poriadok“ a „Rozum na konci utiahnutej uzdy“. A prekvapivý predslov V. Katasonova.…
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out' In the first volume…
Predstavte si, že existuje planéta, kdesi ďaleko za Síriusom , ktorá je identickou kópiou Zeme s rovnakou geografiou, kde všetci obyvatelia Zeme existujú duplicitne, avšak disponujú inými5 Tradíciami, znalosťami, oblečením, spotrebičmi a podobne. Na…
Co se stane s civilizací napadenou jedovatými mravenci? Jak lze během jednoho dne vystoupat na alpský štít a bezpečně se dostat zase zpět do hotelu? Co se ukrývá za tajemnými dveřmi ve zdi anebo v rádžově trezoru? Tak rozmanité otázky si ve svých fantastických,…
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.…
Klasická fantastika svou vizuální přitažlivostí vysloveně vybízí ke komiksovým adaptacím, které jsou čím dál častější a úspěšnější. Francouzští komiksoví tvůrci se tentokrát pustili do stále oblíbených románů H. G. Wellse. V prvním svazku vám nabízíme…
Klasická fantastika svou vizuální přitažlivostí vysloveně vybízí ke komiksovým adaptacím, které jsou čím dál častější a úspěšnější. Francouzští komiksoví tvůrci se tentokrát pustili do stále oblíbených románů H. G. Wellse. V prvním svazku vám nabízíme…
Svět doktora Moreaua je fascinující i děsivý zároveň. Klasický vědecko-fantastický román H. G. Wellse o lidské namyšlenosti a pýše, jež předchází pádu, je stejně aktuální dnes jako roku 1896, kdy byl poprvé vytištěn. Tato kniha obsahuje kromě rozsáhlé…
With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin - the new guest at The Coach and Horses - is at first assumed to be a shy accident-victim. He has developed a process that has made him…
Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel carrying a profoundly unusual cargo - a menagerie of savage animals.
Victorian scientist propel himself into the year 802,701 AD, where he is delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty and contentment in the form of the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man. But he soon realizes that they are simply…
Naive suburban Londoners investigate a strange cylinder from space, but are instantly incinerated by an all-destroying heat-ray. Soon, gigantic killing machines that chase and feed on human prey are threatening the whole of humanity.
The stranger arrives early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow. He is wrapped up from head to foot, and the brim of his hat hides every inch of his face. Rude and rough, the stranger works with strange apparatus locked…
A shipwrecked man finds himself, after various twists of Fate, on a lonely tropical island. From a locked enclosure the cries of animals in pain can be heard, and there is a stink of chemicals in the air. In this island paradise, the horrific experiments…
Wells's masterpiece still retains its power to provoke and enthral. In the Time Traveller's miraculous new machine, we will be carried from a Victorian dinner table to 802,701 AD, when the Earth is divided between the gentle, ineffective Eloi, and the…
Yet across the gulf of space, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. Then, late one night, in the middle of the English countryside, they landed.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.