A mysterious captain assembles a ship and crew for a secret and dangerous voyage.

A group of colonists attempt to settle in the Arctic Circle.

An ex-slave trader with an encrypted note schemes about its meaning, while a man with a secret past travels with his family down the Amazon in a giant raft to attend his daughter’s wedding.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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