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The Time Machine: Popular Penguins by H. G. Wells
14.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
A Victorian scientist propels himself into the future. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that this beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture - now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. They have reason to be afraid: in tunnels bene ...Show more
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
'Death!' I shouted. 'Death is coming! Death!' In this pioneering, shocking and nightmarish tale, 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 threaten ...Show more
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
24.00 NZD
Category: Classics
"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's..." So begins H. G. Wells' classic novel in which Martian lifeforms take over planet Earth. As the Martians emerge, they construct giant killin ...Show more
The War of the Worlds (Chartwell Classic) by H G Wells
28.00 NZD
Category: Classics
Find yourself caught in the middle of an alien invasion in the late 1800s in this thrilling science fiction classic.
The War of the Worlds: Popular Penguins by H. G. Wells
14.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
The night after a shooting star is seen streaking across the sky, a cylinder is discovered near London. Armed with just a white flag, the locals approach the mysterious object only to be burned alive by heat-rays as horrific, tentacled invaders emerge. Soon, the whole of human civilization is under thre ...Show more
The War of the Worlds (Vintage Classics Sci-Fi range) by H. G. Wells
22.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
The War of the Worlds By H.G. Wells The War of the Worlds describes the fictional 1895 invasion of Earth by aliens from Mars who use laser-like Heat-Rays, chemical weapons, and mechanical three-legged ''fighting machines'' that could potentially be viewed as precursors to the tank. After defeating the r ...Show more
Time Machine by H. G. Wells; Alessandro Lecis (Illustrator); Alessandra Panzeri (Illustrator)
45.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Reimagined Ser.
Retold with stunning modern illustration, The Time Machine is a masterpiece of invention and storytelling from the father of science fiction, H. G. Wells. In this unabridged classic, the time-traveling protagonist is propelled by his machine to the distant year of 802,701 AD. To his horror, he finds onl ...Show more
War of the Worlds / The War in the Air by H. G. Wells
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Andrew Frayn, Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University. In these two compelling novels H.G. Wells imagines terrifying futures in which civilisation itself is threatened. The narrator of The War of the Worlds is quick to di ...Show more