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FlatlandA Romance of Many Dimensions

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions  

Edwin A. Abbott and Rosemary Jann (ed.)

Published in Print: 
12 June 2008
eISBN: 
9780191921049
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199537501.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199537501
Upward, yet not Northward.’ How would a creature limited to two dimensions be able to grasp the possibility of a third? Edwin A. Abbott's droll and delightful ‘romance of many dimensions’ ... More
The Invisible ManA Grotesque Romance

The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance  

H. G. Wells and Matthew Beaumont (ed.)

Published in Print: 
12 January 2017
Published Online: 
27 January 2022
eISBN: 
9780191956973
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780198702672.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780198702672
The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst* Railway Station, and ... More
The Island of Doctor Moreau

The Island of Doctor Moreau  

H. G. Wells and Darryl Jones (ed.)

Published in Print: 
09 February 2017
Published Online: 
27 January 2022
eISBN: 
9780191956966
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780198702665.001.0001
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book
ISBN: 
9780198702665
The only island known to exist in the region in which my uncle was picked up is Noble’s Isle, a small volcanic islet, and uninhabited. It was visited in 1891 by HMS Scorpion. A party of ... More
The Last Man

The Last Man  

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Morton D. Paley (ed.)

Published in Print: 
14 August 2008
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191921759
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199552351.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199552351
The last man! I may well describe that solitary being’s feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me.’ Mary Shelley, Journal (May 1824). ... More
Looking Backward 2000-1887

Looking Backward 2000-1887  

Edward Bellamy and Matthew Beaumont (ed.)

Published in Print: 
25 June 2009
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191921841
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199552573.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199552573
‘No person can be blamed for refusing to read another word of what promises to be a mere imposition upon his credulity.’ Julian West, a feckless aristocrat living in fin-de-siècle Boston, ... More
The Time Machine

The Time Machine  

H. G. Wells and Roger Luckhurst (ed.)

Published in Print: 
12 January 2017
Published Online: 
27 January 2022
eISBN: 
9780191956997
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780198707516.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780198707516
The Time Traveller* (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. His grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his usually pale face was ... More
The War of the Worlds

The War of the Worlds  

H. G. Wells (ed.)

Published in Print: 
12 February 2021
Published Online: 
27 January 2022
eISBN: 
9780191956959
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780198702641.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780198702641
No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as ... More

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