The H. G. Wells Collection includes five novels: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, and The First Men in the Moon. This set is limited to 1000 copies. H. G. Wells is credited with the popularisation of time travel in 1895 with The Time Machine, introducing the idea of time being the fourth dimension a decade before the publication of Einstein's first Relativity papers. In 1896, he imagined a mad scientist creating human-like beings from animals in The Island of Doctor Moreau, which created a growing interest in animal welfare throughout Europe. In 1897 with The Invisible Man, Wells shows how a formula could render one invisible, recognizing that an invisible eye would not be able to focus, thus rendering the invisible man blind. With The War of the Worlds in 1898, Wells established the idea that an advanced civilization could live on Mars, popularising the term 'martian' and the idea that aliens could invade Earth. With The First Men in the Moon, Wells developed antigravity, a development that we are still dreaming about to this day.--Publisher's description.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2020.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 823/.912
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- e-fr---
- ISBN
- 9781774374856 9781774374832
- LCCN
- PR5772
- LCCN Item number
- 2020eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaBNVSL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (622 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00241340 (OCoLC)1200041807 (CaOOCEL)459223
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaBNVSL
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Title 3
- Contents 5
- The Time Machine 9
- Chapter 1 11
- Chapter 2 18
- Chapter 3 23
- Chapter 4 28
- Chapter 5 36
- Chapter 6 49
- Chapter 7 54
- Chapter 8 60
- Chapter 9 66
- Chapter 10 72
- Chapter 11 75
- Chapter 12 79
- The Island of Dr. Moreau 85
- Introduction 87
- 1 - In the Dingey of the “Lady Vain” 88
- 2 - The Man who was Going Nowhere 91
- 3 - The Strange Face 94
- 4 - At the Schooner’s Rail 98
- 5 - The Man who had Nowhere to Go 101
- 6 - The Evil-Looking Boatmen 104
- 7 - The Locked Door 108
- 8 - The Crying of the Puma 112
- 9 - The Thing in the Forest 115
- 10 - The Crying of the Man 122
- 11 - The Hunting of the Man 125
- 12 - The Sayers of the Law 129
- 13 - A Parley 135
- 14 - Doctor Moreau Explains 139
- 15 - Concerning the Beast Folk 147
- 16 - How the Beast Folk Taste Blood 152
- 17 - A Catastrophe 161
- 18 - The Finding of Moreau 165
- 19 - Montgomery’s “Bank Holiday” 169
- 20 - The Alone with the Beast Folk 175
- 21 - The Reversion of the Beast Folk 179
- 22 - The Man Alone 188
- The Invisible Man 191
- 1 - The Strange Man’s Arrival 193
- 2 - Mr. Teddy Henfrey’s First Impressions 198
- 3 - The Thousand and One Bottles 202
- 4 - Mr. Cuss Interviews the Stranger 206
- 5 - The Burglary at the Vicarage 211
- 6 - The Furniture that went Mad 213
- 7 - The Unveiling of the Stranger 216
- 8 - In Transit 223
- 9 - Mr. Thomas Marvel 224
- 10 - Mr. Marvel’s Visit to Iping 229
- 11 - In the “Coach and Horses” 232
- 12 - The Invisible Man Loses His Temper 235
- 13 - Mr. Marvel Discusses His Resignation 239
- 14 - At Port Stowe 241
- 15 - The Man Who was Running 246
- 16 - In the “Jolly Cricketers” 248
- 17 - Dr. Kemp’s Visitor 252
- 18 - The Invisible Man Sleeps 258
- 19 - Certain First Principles 261
- 20 - At the House in Great Portland Street 266
- 21 - In Oxford Street 274
- 22 - In the Emporium 278
- 23 - In Drury Lane 283
- 24 - The Plan that Failed 290
- 25 - The Hunting of the Invisible Man 294
- 26 - The Wicksteed Murder 296
- 27 - The Siege of Kemp’s House 299
- 28 - The Hunter Hunted 307
- The Epilogue 312
- The War of the Worlds 315
- Book 1 - The Coming of the Martians 316
- 1 - The Eve of the War 317
- 2 - The Falling Star 322
- 3 - On Horsell Common 325
- 4 - The Cylinder Opens 328
- 5 - The Heat Ray 331
- 6 - The Heat-Ray in the Chobham Road 335
- 7 - How I Reached Home 337
- 8 - Friday Night 340
- 9 - The Fighting Begins 343
- 10 - In the Storm 348
- 11 - At the Window 353
- 12 - What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton 358
- 13 - How I Fell in with the Curate 367
- 14 - In London 372
- 15 - What had Happened in Surrey 381
- 16 - The Exodus from London 387
- 17 - The “Thunder Child” 397
- Book 2 - The Earth Under the Martians 404
- 1 - Under Foot 405
- 2 - What we Saw from the Ruined House 411
- 3 - The Days of Imprisonment 419
- 4 - The Death of the Curate 423
- 5 - The Stillness 427
- 6 - The Work of Fifteen Days 430
- 7 - The Man on Putney Hill 433
- 8 - Dead London 445
- 9 - Wreckage 452
- 10 - The Epilogue 456
- The First Men in the Moon 459
- 1 - Mr. Bedford Meets Mr. Cavor at Lympne 461
- 2 - The First Making of Cavorite 473
- 3 - The Building of the Sphere 479
- 4 - Inside the Sphere 485
- 5 - The Journey to the Moon 489
- 6 - The Landing on the Moon 494
- 7 - Sunrise on the Moon 497
- 8 - A Lunar Morning 501
- 9 - Prospecting Begins 504
- 10 - Lost Men in the Moon 511
- 11 - The Mooncalf Pastures 515
- 12 - The Selenite’s Face 523
- 13 - Mr. Cavor Makes Some Suggestions 527
- 14 - Experiments in Intercourse 533
- 15 - The Giddy Bridge 537
- 16 - Points of View 545
- 17 - Fight in the Cave of the Moon Butchers 551
- 18 - In the Sunlight 559
- 19 - Mr. Bedford Alone 566
- 20 - Mr. Bedford in Infinite Space 574
- 21 - Mr. Bedford at Littlestone 579
- 22 - The Astonishing Communication of Mr. Julius Wendigee 589
- 23 - An Abstract of the Six Messages First Received from Mr. Cavor 592
- 24 - The Natural History of the Selenites 598
- 25 - The Grand Lunar 610
- 26 - The Last Message Cavor Sent to the Earth 621
- Explore Other Engage Classic Titles 623
