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The Complete Novels of H. G. Wells: Over 55 Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, The History of Mr. Polly, The War in the Air and many more by Herbert George Wells, H G Wells
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In this collection you will find:

Novels
-The Time Machine
-The War of the Worlds
-The Invisible Man
-The Island of Doctor Moreau
-The Sleeper Awakes
-A Modern Utopia
-The Wheels of Chance
-The First Men in the Moon
-The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth
-In the Days of the Comet
-Ann Veronica

Short Stories
-Tales of Space and Time
-The Red Room
-The Diamond Maker
-Æpyornis Island
-The Chronic Argonauts
-The Flowering of the Strange Orchid
-The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes
-The History of Mr Polly
-The World Set Free

The War of the Worlds: The Original Unabridged and Complete Edition ( H. G. Wells Classics) by H. G. Wells
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The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. It was written between 1895 and 1897, and serialised in Pearson's Magazine in the UK and Cosmopolitan magazine in the US in 1897. The full novel was first published in hardcover in 1898 by William Heinemann. The War of the Worlds is one of the earliest stories to detail a conflict between humankind and an extraterrestrial race. The novel is the first-person narrative of an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and his younger brother in London as southern England is invaded by Martians and is one of the most commented-on works in the science fiction canon.

The plot is similar to other works of invasion literature from the same period, and has been variously interpreted as a commentary on the theory of evolution, British colonialism, and Victorian-era fears, superstitions and prejudices. Wells later noted that inspiration for the plot was the catastrophic effect of European colonisation on the Aboriginal Tasmanians.

Some historians have argued that Wells wrote the book to encourage his readership to question the morality of imperialism. At the time of publication, it was classified as a scientific romance, like Wells's earlier novel, The Time Machine.

A couple of other versions of The War of the Worlds that are also currently free:

The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
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The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
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This author's work is public domain, versions of his books have in the past been/are currently/will in the future be free.

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  • BH1 on 09/10/2024 - 12:41

    The force is strong with you.
    Thanks OP!

  • chrism238 on 09/10/2024 - 12:46
    +6

    Hmmm, Amazon then asks if I'd like to follow this author - not sure he'll be posting anything, anytime soon…

    • PainToad on 09/10/2024 - 12:50
      +5

      Oh wells.

  • jv on 09/10/2024 - 12:49
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    Always free…

    • AustriaBargain on 10/10/2024 - 02:02

      If they are out of copyright, then some new editions can be made with like forewords, which renews the copyright on that book (the foreword portion anyway).

  • Frosty Soy on 09/10/2024 - 13:23
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    Seems he was a communism idealist who didn't like nations defending against that subversive revolution. Yeh, ill pass

    • Skinnerr on 09/10/2024 - 13:38
      +5

      Can we ever separate the art from the artist? Henry Ford was a fascist who shared the same anti semetic ideals as H!Tl€r. I don't see anyone boycotting Ford.

      • Frosty Soy on 09/10/2024 - 13:46

        Because stories have more undertone propaganda than a car

        • Igaf on 09/10/2024 - 14:06
          +1

          More likely because you were aware of one and not the orther. Have you ever read any of his works, which cover a huge range of topics? Ever read another of the greats, Dickens, who was a great socialist but from a different angle?

          • Frosty Soy on 09/10/2024 - 14:15
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            @Igaf: yeah, not all socialist regimes are the same. Lets look back and see which ones vastly improved their economy and others that starved their own

            • Igaf on 09/10/2024 - 14:29

              @Frosty Soy: Socialism as implemented by humans doesn't fit in your narrow little box, never has. Which "socialist" regimes are you thinking of?

      • smartProverble on 10/10/2024 - 01:24

        Can we ever separate the art from the artist? Henry Ford was a fascist

        Ford is a business and can't be compared to priceless art.

    • Igaf on 09/10/2024 - 13:59
      +1

      That's a very blinkered view if I may say so. He also believed in a one world order, and that WW1 would see the end to global confo-ict.

      You understand the difference between socialism and communism presumably? How about the huge disparity between the well-off and the hoi polloi during Wells' formative life? Would Wells have a different view now after seeing the murderous and destructive Russian and Chinese regimes for example? Given his strong social justice views I think he'd view communism in the same light as fascism. He was also intelligent enough to understand that in the post-colonial world national and ethnic groups don't appreciate being lorded over by outsiders, or excessively dictatorial locals for that matter.

      • Frosty Soy on 09/10/2024 - 14:03
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        Fascism was the inevitable defence against the original injustice that was communism. People understood that more back during his day than now. Seeing as the holodomor had already occurred i'd have no reason for his viewpoint to be different today.

        • Igaf on 09/10/2024 - 14:13
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          Ha ha ha. You're either trolling or your knowledge of history is both negligible and perverse in the extreme, a not uncommon trait among demographics who rarely read. Your first sentence is demonstrably ignorant, your second is astonishingly ludicrous, even for this site.

          • HoochieMamma on 09/10/2024 - 14:20
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            @Igaf: Probably just watches SkyNews all day. Just leave him alone lol

            • Frosty Soy on 09/10/2024 - 14:25
              +1

              @HoochieMamma: Imagine thinking anything on MSM is ''right-wing'' truth. You are so far left that the common sense centre is radical.

          • Frosty Soy on 09/10/2024 - 14:21

            @Igaf: ah I see you're well read in the 'accepted version of history'. Never found it odd that the good guys always win; must be your 'Hollywood-ised' vision of the world.

            • Igaf on 09/10/2024 - 14:32

              @Frosty Soy: Throw up a topic you're supposedly well-read in pal. I'm happy to debate and disabuse you. Opinionated ignorance is a blight on modern society as never before.

              • Frosty Soy on 09/10/2024 - 14:50

                @Igaf: Pointless, you're the type to believe hormone replacement and sterilisation for children is empowering and not a 'blight on modern society'. Let's discuss which racial group almost entirely led the German and Bolshevik revolutions.

                • HoochieMamma on 09/10/2024 - 15:08

                  @Frosty Soy: This OzBargain, mate. Not GOPBargain.

                  • Frosty Soy on 09/10/2024 - 15:10

                    @HoochieMamma: I'm not the one who needed explanation on why it was warranted on fading a communist sympathiser. You believing I belong to any 'wing' says everything about your state of delusion.

                    • HoochieMamma on 09/10/2024 - 15:32

                      @Frosty Soy: Seek help, someone will be able to help you and your delusions.

                      1800 61 44 34

                      Hopefully the communists in the room with you don't hurt you.

                      We really need better mental health help in this country.

                      • Frosty Soy on 09/10/2024 - 15:36
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                        @HoochieMamma: I'm glad I'm in this 'democratic' country where I get to fund referendums on the big issues of Gay and Aboriginal rights

                        • Igaf on 09/10/2024 - 16:10

                          @Frosty Soy: Sounds like you aren't glad at all. Which party forced Australians to pay for the unnecessary plebiscite - not referendum, which as you know (cough) only refers to constitutional changes - on same sex marriage? How has the result - giving people basic rights - affected you?

                • Igaf on 09/10/2024 - 16:32

                  @Frosty Soy: "Sterilisation of children" - lol, you really have plumbed the depths of that rabbit hole haven't you.

                  I have no opinion on sex transition other than the obvious - it's extreme arrogance for uneducated, inexpert
                  ideologues - or their credulous victims - with no first-hand knowledge of individual cases to be dictating to anyone about any public policy, let alone one concerning nuanced personal health-related matters. I'll leave that to experts, parents and those directly affected to work their way through.

                  What I do know is that I'm not in any position to make ludcirous generalisations about extremely complex personal issues, and that ignorant rhetoric repeated by even more ignorant plebs has no place in determining public policy - on health matters or anywhere else for that matter.

                  I'll bite - what "racial group almost entirely led the German and Bolshevik revolutions"?

                  • Frosty Soy on 09/10/2024 - 16:38
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                    @Igaf: Exactly, you have consumed so much information but no knowledge. Maybe read 'The creature from Jekyll Island' for a beginning to so many answers you need.

                    • Igaf on 09/10/2024 - 16:44

                      @Frosty Soy:

                      believing I belong to any 'wing' says everything about your state of delusion.

                      I'm certainly not of that opinion. It's possible you're just one of the new breed of disaffected egoists (freedom junkies/anti-vaxxers/conspiracy theorists/"sovereign citizens" who place their own almost invariably ignorant opinions and "rights" above everyone else's, who despise authority and expertise despite having benefitted from said authority/expertise from the moment of their birth.

                      Having trouble with your German/Bolshevic "race" claim? How about why aboriginal or gay rights - or any human rights for that matter - affects your day to day life?

                      • Frosty Soy on 09/10/2024 - 16:50

                        @Igaf: Nah, the system of expertise loves you by continuing the state of 40 years below replacement birthrates and 20 year wars to replace allied funded Taliban with the Taliban.

                        • Igaf on 09/10/2024 - 17:14

                          @Frosty Soy: Replacement of whom by whom? You do understand genetics and the fact that you're ~99.9% genetically related to every other human presumably? A senile orange pathological narcissist wouldn't be expected to know that but surely a man(?) so well-read as you does? One heavy blow to the nature (V nurture) supporters.

                          You're - unsurprisingly - all over the shop. Is the Afghanistan situation also part of your one race responsibility theory? How about corona virus spread? Perhaps "they" also control the weather? Fruitcake MTG hasn't been explicit about who she believes does so we'll just have to speculate.

                          • Frosty Soy on 09/10/2024 - 17:23
                            -1

                            @Igaf: If living multiple generations in a decaying populace with the highest and lowest IQ races on earth doesn't open your mind than explaining anything to you is futile.

                            • Igaf on 09/10/2024 - 17:58

                              @Frosty Soy: Decaying populace? Go to the mirror boy. Low IQ? Lol. I've already given you a clue about nature V nurture but your ego and ignorance are so rampant you missed it.

                              Spit it out boy. Who are these "highest and lowest IQ races" you write about? Are they magically "racially pure"? Is one sex more dominant? Is your "highest IQ race" uniformly intelligent and if so why (skin colour? size of skull? small penis size maybe?) and in what way? Is IQ more important that other human traits and if so, why? David Unaipon belatedly sends his regards, as do the thousands of far more physically and mentally gifted people than you or I.

                              I appreciate that you cant answer any of these questions because that will further expose your ideology and utter ignorance. That's the thing with opinionated ignorance. It is almost universally characterised by generalised obscure waffle and an inability to be specific about anything lest it be shredded.

        • elektron on 09/10/2024 - 17:19
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          Fascism is a left-wing movement. Don't take my word for it. The Nazis are short for national socialists - that's what they called themselves, and their strongest alliance until 1941 was with Stalin's Russia against the West and they had divided Poland together.

          Saying that fascism is "far right" is actually communist propaganda.

          • Igaf on 09/10/2024 - 17:36

            @elektron: Newsflash. I don't take your word for anything, especially when it's based on ludicrous simplicity like the above. Alliances are made for a whole lot of reasons. Fascism might be conveniently defined as right wing by some but it's intimately entwined with - and in some ways almost indistinguishable from - other extremes of ideological despotism.

            Edit: To elaborate on your NS label comment. You might be surprised but the Sun Ripened Warm Tomato Party had no relationaship with said tomatoes; 70,000 "Jedis" in Australia aren't; the "Liberal Party" isn't; nor is the "Labour Party" or the best of all, the "National Party" - although I think we can all understand why they changed from the Country Party.

            Seems puerile but I've negged you back, for balance. Lol.

            • elektron on 09/10/2024 - 18:39
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              @Igaf: I understand, some facts are inconvenient or are hard to accept, but it's not me calling the Nazis socialists, it's them stating that in their charter. It's the same for the modern Australian neo-Nazis.

              • Igaf on 09/10/2024 - 23:10

                @elektron: Neo-Nazis use the term solely because they think it links them to a movement which for a very short time had power and control - neither of which they now have in civil societies. I doubt any of them has an inkling of what socialism is, let alone any intention of embracing it.

                The term fascism came from the Italian dictator Mussolini's "socialist" group as you know. At the time numerous movements claiming to be parties of the workers existed. They took on the label socialist to garner support but very quickly developed into extreme nationalistic and militaristic regimes which shunned democracy and embraced totalitarianship, forcibly shutting down political and cultural freedoms and dissent. We know very clearly what that led to and how it ended.

                None of these groups is recognisable as "socialist" in the modern context. Hence my comment about ideological despotism being a common characteristic of both "left" and "right" extremes. 'Communist' currently doesn't generally engender the same strenght of disgust and abhorrence as 'fascist' hence I label the more egregious of both extremes as fascist. The Taliban is fascist, as is Putin's regime. Plenty of others have significant fascist tendencies.

                Language and customs change markedly over time. In former times baby boys were dressed in pink, girls in blue, and egregious meant distinguished. Ufortunately for you, fascism has long been associated with the extreme right. Elements of the illiberal/puritanical/anti-social conservative right in the USA are certainly fascist in their intent.

  • Skinnerr on 09/10/2024 - 13:40
    +2

    These are becoming like the newly added to streaming posts. Should make a wiki article for all the public domain free classics.

  • kurtbryant on 09/10/2024 - 20:53

    Given they've been out of copyright in Australia for nearly 30 years, should anybody ever be paying for them?

    • Igaf on 09/10/2024 - 23:33
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      Someone had to digitise them and provide infrastructure for access. All govt funded material should in theory be "free", businesses can make their own arrangements

  • Ozykins on 10/10/2024 - 06:16
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    If you enjoy the original Wells' The War of the Worlds, try Christopher Priests The Space Machine. It's a story in the Wells style, which bridges between The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. It's quite well written, holds the right style and is cunningly contrived link between two plates, via a plot of it's own.

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