An English scientist and gentleman inventor living in Victorian England reveals to his weekly dinner guests that time is simply a fourth dimension, and his demonstration of a tabletop model machine for travelling through it. He has built...

A Victorian scientist and inventor creates a machine for propelling himself through time, and voyages to the year AD 802701, where he discovers a race of humanoids called the Eloi. Their gently indolent way of life, set in a decaying...

'Death!' I shouted. 'Death is coming! Death!'In this pioneering, shocking and nightmarish tale, naïve suburban Londoners investigate a strange cylinder from space, but are instantly incinerated by an all-destroying heat-ray. Soon,...

In einem von Bürgerkriegen zerrissenen Land, irgendwo in Europa. Der regierungstreue Bolaris, Anführer der staatlichen Truppen, steht unerschütterlich und loyal zu seinem König. Die Freude ist groß, als seine Militärs ihm eines Nachts...

H. G. Wells' Jahrhundertwerk "Die Zeitmaschine" als zweisprachige Ausgabe Englisch-Deutsch Herbert George Wells revolutionierte mit seinem Roman "Die Zeitmaschine" die Literatur und verpasste ihr ein neues Genre: den Science Fiction...

Zitat: An einem winterlich kalten Februartage, bei schneidendem Wind und Schneegestöber ... kam der Fremde von der Bahnstation Bramblehurst zu Fuß über die Düne... . Er war von Kopf bis zu Fuß eingehüllt, und der Rand des weichen...

The Time Machine is considered one of the best science-fiction novel of all time and the first to popularize the concept of a time machine - a term coined by Wells. von Wells, H. G.

In the space of less than four years, H. G. Wells (1866-1946) published four of the most influential, original and hair-raising of all works of science-fiction. In a life of tireless experiment, travelling and intellectual engagement,...

Etwas Unerhörtes geschieht in dem ruhigen Universitätsstädtchen Camford: An der dortigen Universität ertönt plötzlich wie aus dem Nichts eine körperlose Stimme. Die rätselhafte Erscheinung von Camford sorgt für nicht wenig Wirbel in den...

When the Time Traveler courageously stepped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the year 802,700--and everything had changed. H.G. Wells's famous novel of one man's astonishing journey beyond the conventional...

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...

The War of the Worlds (King's Classics) von Wells, H. G.