Two scientists discover a substance which promotes rapid and extreme growth in plants, animals, and humans, leading to unexpected and alarming consequences.

A middle-aged man in early Edwardian England finds himself despairing at his failed business and marriage, and takes a drastic step to escape—with unexpected results.

A scientist named Griffin creates a serum to render himself invisible and subsequently descends into madness.

A shipwrecked man is rescued by a boat and left on a strange island owned by a physiologist who experiments in vivisection.

An orphan raised by his aunt and uncle struggles as a young man to integrate into upper class society after receiving a substantial inheritance from his grandfather.

A collection of short stories by H. G. Wells in a variety of genres ordered by date of publication.

A mysterious inventor travels to a land far off in time.

A poor boy, the son of a servant, rises to fortune on the back of his uncle’s patent-medicine scheme.

The first-person narrative of the Martian invasion of 19th-century Earth.

An angel falls into the everyday world of 19th Century England and is bewildered and despirited by human life and society.

Facing the devastation of a nuclear world war, humanity unites under a world government.