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Qui ne connaît pas l'intrigue de ce roman ? La terre en l'an 802701 a les apparences d'un paradis. Les apparences seulement. Car derrière ces jardins magnifiques, ces bosquets somptueux, cet éternel été où les hommes devenus oisifs n'ont à se préoccuper de rien, se cache un secret...  

A rousing tale featuring a family named the Gilpins. Follow their adventures as they travel to Australia to start a new life. Hard work, courage, and determination guide them through tough times and they triumph as a family.

Profiting enormously from the success of his uncle’s bogus medicine, called Tono-Bungay, young George Ponderovo pursues his dream of building an airplane. As the empire of Tono-Bungay continues to grow, however, George is headed for a breakdown as he begins to question the corrupt society that allows his family to become so powerful.

Taking a break from science fiction, Wells penned this collection of entertaining and witty essays which epitomize his smart prose style. Here, Wells explores a range of subjects, in essays titled “Thoughts on Cheapness and My Aunt Charlotte,” “On the Choice of a Wife,” “The Pleasure of Quarrelling,” “How I Died,” and many more.

Published in 1904, this darkly satirical novel is one of the first appearances of a science fiction classic—scientific experimentation that results in gigantic plants and animals:  in this case, an English countryside overrun with giant wasps, giant rodents, and giant human beings.

As the Great War raged along in 1916, Wells turned his prophetic eye towards the future. Topics considered include the law, the media, the new map of Europe; the roles of the United States, Russia, and France; the outlook for Germany, the “white man’s burden,” and the prospects for European socialism.

When the Sleeper Wakes, whose title I have now altered to The Sleeper Awakes, was first published as a book in 1899 after a serial appearance in the Graphic and one or two American and colonial periodicals. It is one of the most ambitious and least satisfactory of my books, and I have taken the opportunity...

At the end of the nineteenth century, a metal object fell from the sky in the South of England and made a large hole in the ground. People came to learn, what had happened. They surrounded the hole, looking at the strange object. When one end of the object started opening, the watchers realized it...

The narrative opens in an astronomical observatory at Ottershaw where explosions are seen on the surface of the planet Mars, creating much interest in the scientific community. Later a "meteor" lands on Horsell Common, near the unnamed narrator's home in Woking, Surrey. He is among...

Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title—offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All...

Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title—offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All...

Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title—offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All...