24/07/2021
Omnibus H.G. Wells Complete and Unabridged. The Time Machine, The Island of Dr Moreau, The Invisible Man, The First Men on the Moon, The Food of the Gods, In the Days of the Comet, The War of the Worlds. Hardcover in good condition.
R 40.00
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The Time Machine - “I’ve had a most amazing time....”
So begins the Time Traveller’s astonishing first-hand account of his journey 800,000 years beyond his own era. With a speculative leap that still fires the imagination, Wells sends his brave explorer to face a future burdened with our greatest hopes ..and our darkest fears. A pull of the Time Machine’s lever propels him to the age of a slowly dying Earth. There he discovers two bizarre races, the ethereal Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks, who not only symbolize the duality of human nature, but offer a terrifying portrait of the men of tomorrow as well.
The Island of Dr Moreau - A shipwrecked gentleman named Edward Prendick, stranded on a Pacific island lorded over by the notorious Dr Moreau, confronts dark secrets, strange creatures, and a reason to run for his life.
The Invisible Man - The fascinating story of Griffin, a scientist who creates a serum to render himself invisible, and his descent into madness that follows.
The First Men in the Moon - When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance the brilliant Dr Cavor, an absent-minded scientist on the brink of developing a material that blocks gravity. Cavor soon succeeds in his experiments, only to tell a stunned Bedford the invention makes possible one of the oldest dreams of humanity: a journey to the moon. With Bedford motivated by money, and Cavor by the desire for knowledge, the two embark on the expedition. But neither are prepared for what they find, a world of freezing nights, boiling days and sinister alien life, on which they may be trapped forever.
The Food of the Gods - Hoping to create a new growth agent for food with beneficial uses to mankind, two scientists find that the spread of the material is uncontrollable. Giant chickens, rats, and insects run amok, and children given the food stuffs experience incredible growth and serious illnesses. Over the years, people who have eaten these specially treated foods find themselves unable to fit into a society where ignorance and hypocrisy rule.
In the Days of the Comet - A comet rushes toward the earth, a deadly, glowing orb that soon fills the sky and promises doom. But mankind is too busy hating, stealing, scheming, and killing to care. As luminous green trails of cosmic dust and v***r stream across the heavens, blood flows beneath: nations wage all-out war, bitter strikes erupt, and jealous lovers plot revenge and murder. The earth slips past the comet by the narrowest of margins, but all succumb to the gases in its tail. When mankind wakes up, everyone is completely and profoundly different.
The War of the Worlds - When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the aliens traverse the country in huge three-legged machines, incinerating all in their path with a heat ray and spreading noxious toxic gases, the people of the Earth must come to terms with the prospect of the end of human civilization and the beginning of Martian rule.
