The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel written by H.G. Wells and first published in 1898. It tells the story of an invasion of Earth by Martians who arrive in giant, three-legged machines and use heat rays and other advanced weapons to attack humanity. The novel is set in Victorian England and is narrated by an unnamed man who witnesses the invasion firsthand. The story opens with the narrator describing the strange and unsettling events that begin to unfold in his quiet English ...

The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian science fiction novel by English writer H. G. Wells, about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London in which he has become the richest man in the world. The main character awakes to see his dreams realised, and the future revealed to him in all its horrors and malformities.

To devote himself to writing in order to raise some money, Mr. Bedford rents a country house to find the necessary peace. It is on this occasion that he meets Doctor Cavor, who passes every evening under his window gesturing and talking to himself. Speaking with the scientist, Bedford discovers that he is working on a substance, cavorite, capable of shielding gravity. The two friends become and decide to go on an exploratory journey on the lunar surface, using a spherical shuttle built wit...

Griffin, a promising 19th-century physicist, ignored by his countrymen, dedicates himself body and soul to making his dream come true, developing a new discovery that makes him rich and allows him to win the respect he believes he deserves because of his intelligence. Griffin manages to develop a procedure that makes it possible to make any object invisible and decides to try this discovery first on a cat and then on himself. The process succeeds on him and Griffin very quickly discovers t...

The Outline of History, is a work by H. G. Wells chronicling the history of the world from the origin of the Earth to the First World War. It appeared in an illustrated version of 24 fortnightly installments beginning on 22 November 1919 and was published as a single volume in 1920. It sold more than two million copies, was translated into many languages, and had a considerable impact on the teaching of history in institutions of higher education. Wells modeled the Outline on the Encyclopé...

The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first serialised in 1897 by Pearson's Magazine in the UK and by Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. The novel's first appearance in hardcover was in 1898 from publisher William Heinemann of London. Written between 1895 and 1897, it is one of the earliest stories to detail a conflict between mankind and an extra-terrestrial race. The novel is the first-person narrative of both an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and o...

Edward Prendick is shipwrecked following a terrible ship accident in the Pacific, and is saved by a small vessel, the Ipecacuanha, commanded by an alcoholic captain, on which exotic animals are transported. On the boat he meets the mysterious Montgomery and his deformed and inhuman servant, M'ling. Still confused and exhausted by the shipwreck, Prendick is abandoned by the captain on a lifeboat after defending M'ling from his outburst and is recovered by Montgomery who meanwhile was disemb...

The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells first serialised in 1897 in the UK by Pearson's Magazine and in the US by Cosmopolitan magazine. The novel's first appearance in hardcover was in 1898 from publisher William Heinemann of London.

A Short History of the World is a period-piece non-fictional historic work by English author H. G. Wells first published by Cassell and Co, Ltd Publishing in 1922. The book was largely inspired by Wells's earlier 1919 work The Outline of History. The book is 344 pages in total, summarising the scientific knowledge of the time regarding the history of Earth and life. It starts with its origins, goes on to explain the development of the Earth and life on Earth, reaching primitive thought and...

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells is a science fiction novel that was first published in 1895. The story follows an unnamed Time Traveller who builds a machine that can transport him through time. He travels to the year 802,701 AD where he encounters two distinct species of human-like creatures, the Eloi and the Morlocks. The Eloi are childlike and peaceful, living above ground in a utopian society, while the Morlocks are savage and cannibalistic, living underground in darkness. Wells uses h...

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Moby-Dick; is a novel by Herman Melville, first published in 1851.It is considered to be one of the Great American Novels. The story tells the adventures of wandering sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab has one purpose on this voyage: to seek out Moby Dick, a ferocious, enigmatic white sperm whale. In a previous encounter, the whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg, which now drives Ahab to take revenge.