Classics of Science Fiction

This set gathers H.G. Wells's principal scientific romances of the 1890s. The Time Machine sends a Victorian inventor to a future in which humanity has split into Eloi and Morlocks and then further toward a dying earth. The War of the Worlds recounts a Martian invasion of southern England and the collapse of ordinary life under heat-ray and black smoke. The Invisible Man follows Griffin, who learns to make himself unseen and turns that power against a village and then London. Some editions also include The Island of Doctor Moreau. Together the books treat time travel, invasion, and the misuse of laboratory knowledge.

Bound in design blocked buckram, each volume a different colour. Black three-volume slipcase titled in gold.