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0141199040
Paperback
Year: 2012
Language: English
Interest category: General fiction novels
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin
Resource type: Physical
Note: 'The War of the Worlds' is Wells' classic science fiction tale of a Martian invasion of Earth. Having already destroyed London, it seems that no-one can stop the intellectually superior Martians from taking over the whole planet. General adult
Title series: Penguin English Library
176 p. ; 20 cm (pbk)

Ogilvy a Surrey astronomer observes Mars and sees a flash from the planet and believes a shooting star has landed near Horsell. Searching and finding no meteorite but cylinder from which something is trying to escape Ogilvy realises that this is what he saw shooting from Mars. Trying to communicate with the Martians Ogilvy becomes one of the first victims of the Martian invasion. The powerlessness of human weapons, the treatment by one species of another and the role of microscopic allies are modern themes in this Victorian Science Fiction.
27/02/16
0385403666
Hardback
Year: 1995
Language: English
Interest category: Biography
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Doubleday
Resource type: Physical
Note: item no 03356174, signed

014144102X
Paperback
Year: 2005
Language: English
Interest category: General fiction novels
Media class: Paperback
Edition: [New ed.]
Content type: Bibliography
Publisher: Penguin
Resource type: Physical
Note: Prendick, a naturalist, is shipwrecked on the island retreat of notorious vivisector, Dr Moreau. In a laboratory called the House of Pain, Moreau manufactures 'humanised' animals known as the Beast People, whom he controls through fear - until the terrifying day when one of his degraded victims turns against him. General adult
xxxiv, 139 p. ; 20 cm (pbk)

0141441089
Paperback
Year: 2005
Language: English
Interest category: Science fiction novels
Media class: Paperback
Edition: [New ed.]
Publisher: Penguin
Resource type: Physical
Note: This is the only one of Wells' scientific romances to embrace space travel. Thanks to the discovery of the anti-gravity metal cavorite, two Victorian Englishmen travel to the Moon. General adult
Title series: Penguin classics
xxxvii, 213 p. ; 20 cm (pbk)

0297860437
Hardback
Year: 2010
Language: English
Interest category: General fiction novels
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Resource type: Physical
Note: Tono-Bungay is a new medicine with the power to change one's life forever. Or so its inventors claim. Sardonic and hugely derisory, 'Tono-Bungay' can be read as a biting satire on the follies of English sensibilities. General adult
288 p. ; 20 cm (hbk)

0297860445
Hardback
Year: 2010
Language: English
Interest category: General fiction novels
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Resource type: Physical
Note: In his youth Mr Lewisham thought little of love and much of greatness. But that was before he accompanied the boys to church one Sunday and found that the Frobishers' pew was occupied by an unknown lady. General adult
320 p. ; 20 cm (hbk)

057113369X
Hardback
Year: 1984
Interest category: Biography
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Faber
Resource type: Physical
Note: First published 1934

0571133290
Hardback
Year: 1984
Interest category: Biography
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Faber
Resource type: Physical

0571133304
Hardback
Year: 1984
Interest category: Biography
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Faber
Resource type: Physical
Note: First published 1934

0485112477
Hardback
Year: 1984
Interest category: General fiction novels
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Athlone P
Resource type: Physical

0710073879
Hardback
Year: 1972
Interest category: Local history
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Routledge
Resource type: Physical
Title series: Critical heritage series

0575095172
Hardback
Year: 2010
Language: English
Interest category: Science fiction novels
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Gollancz
Resource type: Physical
Note: In 'The Time Machine', Wells' time traveller journeys to 802701 AD, where humanity has evolved and divided into the effete Eloi and the brutal Morlocks. This science fiction classic raises profound questions about progress and social order. General adult
Title series: SF masterworks
144 p. ; 20 cm (hbk)

090100202X
Hardback
Year: 1974
Interest category: Reference
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: London Borough of Bromley Public Libraries
Resource type: Physical

1451660316
Hardback
Year: 2012
Language: English
Interest category: Adventure & spy novels
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Atria Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Translated from the Spanish Published outside the British Isles 1898. New York socialite Emma Harlow agrees to marry well-to-do Montgomery Gilmore, but only if he first accepts her audacious challenge: to reproduce the Martian invasion featured in H.G. Wells' popular novel 'The War of the Worlds'. Meanwhile in London, Wells himself is unexpectedly made privy to certain objects, apparently of extra-terrestrial origin, that were discovered decades earlier on an ill-fated expedition to the Antarctic. General adult
594 pages ; 24 cm + 1 pair of 3D glasses (hbk)

1781161720
Paperback
Year: 2012
Language: English
Interest category: Science fiction novels
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Titan
Resource type: Physical
Note: What if the Martian invasion was not entirely the product of H.G. Wells' imagination? What if Wells witnessed something? From draughty London flats to the steamy Sahara, to the surface of the Moon and beyond, 'The Martian War' takes the reader on an exhilarating journey with Wells and his companions. General adult
340 p. ; 21 cm (pbk)

S000054294
Paperback
Year: 1957
Interest category: Literature & languages
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Ruprekha
Resource type: Physical
Note: Gujarati text

S000036606
Paperback
Year: 1966
Interest category: Local history
Media class: Paperback
Resource type: Physical
Note: Article from Woking Review 1966

S000045427
Paperback
Year: 1920
Interest category: Reference
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Cassell
Resource type: Physical

S000045429
Paperback
Year: 1920
Interest category: Reference
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Cassell
Resource type: Physical

S000045430
Paperback
Year: 1920
Interest category: Reference
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Cassell
Resource type: Physical

S000045431
Paperback
Year: 1920
Interest category: Reference
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Cassell
Resource type: Physical

S000045432
Paperback
Year: 1920
Interest category: Reference
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Cassell
Resource type: Physical

S000045436
Paperback
Year: 1920
Interest category: Reference
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Cassell
Resource type: Physical

S000059676
Paperback
Year: 1966
Interest category: Reference
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: London Borough of Ealing
Resource type: Physical

BRN0595708
Hardback
Year: 1917
Language: English
Interest category: Reference
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Cassell
Resource type: Physical
