H. G. Wells has 40 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 70 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.4★ across 1,152 ratings. The most-rated is H.G. Wells: The Science Fiction Collection.
The War of the Worlds
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This is the timeless science fiction classic, depicting man's struggle against technologically superior invaders from Mars.
Public Domain (P)2017 Michael Ward
The War of the Worlds
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Hostile invading Martians wreak havoc and destruction in England. This science-fiction classic has terrified generations of readers!
Public Domain (P)2014 Audio Book Contractors, LLC
War of the Worlds
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It is an INVASION! H. G. Wells' classic story of Martians invading an unsuspecting and unprepared world continues to thrill and terrify listeners around the world. Following strange explosions on the surface of Mars, metallic cylinders crash in the English countryside - objects that carry hideous aliens possessed of deadly weapons and a rabid hunger for human flesh. No army can stop these monstrous hordes, no weapons can harm them - a terrified humanity watches helpless as cities are reduced to cinders and ash. There is no hope...here is no future...our world is lost - unlessa?S
Public Domain (P)2006 PC Treasures, Inc.
The War of the Worlds
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Experience the horror when 19th-century London is invaded by an alien race from the red planet Mars. This 1898 science-fiction novel comes to life as narrated by Scott R. Pollak, the voice of NPR radio's WABE-FM, Atlanta. Scott's talents as an actor and narrator come to the forefront as he brings us The War of the Worlds.
Public Domain (P)2010 Audio Books by Mike Vendetti
The Island of Doctor Moreau
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The first and greatest "mad scientist" story, from the father of science fiction. Shipwreck survivor Edward Prendick is rescued and dropped off at a remote Pacific Island, where a disgraced British biologist has fled to continue his experimental work on human-animal hybrids. Prendick, at first terrified, later tries to subvert Moreau's domination of the "beast people" and plays a crucial part in the tragedy that unfolds. The Island of Doctor Moreau is part science-fiction and part horror. However, it is much more than that. The novel also raises questions about the ethical limits of scientific experiments, playing God, and the distinction between humans and animals. The Island of Dr Moreau has influenced many later stories and movies, mainly about mad scientists creating part-human, part-animal monsters. Now you can have this incomparable story read to you. This audio version is completely faithful to the H.G. Wells novel.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
Public Domain (P)2009 Shane Sody (Sody Audio Books)
The War of the Worlds
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H. G. Wells' classic science fiction work, first serialized in 1897, is one of many invasion narratives prevalent in British literature towards the end of the 19th century. However, The War of the Worlds not only introduces the extraterrestrial element of brutal Martian forces on the rampage but also explores many other contemporary issues and themes. Here then is a powerful first-person narrative that grapples with Martians, tripods, heat rays, the behaviour of crowds, love, human resilience and Woking.
Public Domain (P)2015 Magpie Audio
War of the Worlds
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“No one would have believed in the last years of the 19th century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own.” Thus begins one of the most terrifying and morally prescient science fiction novels ever penned. Beginning with a series of strange flashes in the distant night sky, the Martian attack initially causes little concern on Earth. Then the destruction erupts—ten massive aliens roam England and destroy with heat rays everything in their path. Very soon mankind finds itself on the brink of extinction. The War of the Worlds is one of those rare books that both introduces a concept and nails it so firmly that everything that came after has been little more than variations on what Wells laid down. The idea of Great Britain, then the greatest military power on Earth, confronting an invasion force from a more advanced civilization and being utterly routed was both frightening and fascinating. Wells raises questions of mortality, man’s place in nature, and the evil lurking in the technological future—questions that remain urgently relevant in the 21st century.
Public Domain (P)2011 Cherry Hill Publishing
The War of the Worlds
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Experience the terror again! Veteran narrator David Gilmore takes you through the suspense-filled invasion of the creatures from Mars in this classic H. G. Wells story from 1898. One by one the Martians build their war machines and lay waste to the English countryside while the human population is powerless to fight back against the awesome heat ray.
Public Domain (P)2015 David Gilmore
Escape Essentials
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Who knew mystery better than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle? Who knew science fiction better than H. G. Wells? Who knew high adventure better than...Escape? Venture into dark forests and darker jungles for suspenseful stories of creatures and curses, trains and treasure, secrets and superstitions. Jack Webb, William Conrad, Paul Frees, Peggy Webber, John Dehner, and Gerald Mohr thrill in tales by Doyle, Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson, Roald Dahl, Stephen Vincent Benet, and more. Delve into 20 dramas of love, honor, immortality...and the law of unintended consequences. Episodes include: "Ring of Thoth", 08-11-47; "Pollock and the Porroh Man", 10-29-47; "The Young Man with the Cream Tarts", 11-12-47; "Casting the Runes", 11-19-47; "Taboo", 12-03-47; "Ancient Sorceries", 02-15-48; "John Jock Todd", 05-02-48; "Beau Geste", 06-06-48; "A Tooth for Paul Revere", 07-04-48; "Dream of Armageddon", 09-05-48; "Orient Express", 02-19-49; "The Adaptive Ultimate", 03-26-49; "When the Man Comes, Follow Him", 04-09-49; "Night in Havana", 10-22-49; "Figure a Dame", 12-20-49; "The Pistol", 01-03-50; "Poison", 07-28-50; "The Time Machine", 10-22-50; "The Cave", 12-24-50; "The Man Who Could Work Miracles", 12-31-50.
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The War of the Worlds
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Award winning narrator Mike Vendetti narrates H. G. Wells' account of a fictional invasion of England by Martians, vastly superior intellectually and militarily to humans. The War of the Worlds is a science fiction and a horror story. Published in 1898, the story is still frightening. Imagine your government not being able to protect you, or a nuclear holocaust making you suddenly, should you survive, a refugee with no home, no community services, and very little hope, as you watch the conqueror decimate your country.
Public Domain (P)2017 Mike Vendetti
The Time Machine
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The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 and written as a frame narrative. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle or device to travel purposely and selectively forward or backward through time. The term "time machine", coined by Wells, is now almost universally used to refer to such a vehicle or device.
©2020 FILROUGEVICEVERSA (P)2020 FILROUGEVICEVERSA
The War of the Worlds
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Professor Ogilvy spotted the projectiles as they were launched from the planet Mars. Even so, when they landed and the aliens emerged, mankind was not ready. Using superweapons and massive walking robots of war, the aliens trampled the forces arrayed against them and caused the rout of mankind. In this first-person narrative, one of the survivors who came face-to-face with the aliens tells his own true story. The War of the Worlds is a classic science fiction story that has never been out of print and thrills people today just as it did during its first printing. In this unabridged reading by FNH Audio, you'll feel like you're there with the protagonist, struggling to survive beneath the feet of the Martians.
Public Domain (P)2016 FNH Audio
The War of the Worlds
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"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own.…" So begins The War of the Worlds, the novel that made Wells famous and has enthralled and terrified readers and listeners for almost 100 years. Ten huge and tireless creatures land in England and, using their deadly rays and crushing strength, threaten the very existence of humankind. Wells' classic is not just groundbreaking science fiction, it is a shocking social parable about man's inhumanity to man. This novel is part of Brilliance Audio's extensive Classic Collection, bringing you timeless masterpieces that you and your family are sure to love.
Public Domain (P)1994 Brilliance Audio
Classic Robert Louis Stevenson and H. G. Wells Dramas Starring Laurence Olivier and Alec Guinness, Volume 2
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Fully restored and remastered, Heritage Media presents the greatest of vintage artists in classic dramas from Robert Louis Stevenson and H. G. Wells. Here is the legendary Alec Guinness starring in ‘The Man Who Could work Miracles’ adapted from the original tale by H. G. Wells and Laurence Olivier starring in 'The Suicide Club' adapted from the original tale by Robert Louis Stevenson. Theatre Royal is a unique series of classic radio dramas produced in the 1950s by the late Harry Alan Towers. Starring the leading theatre artists of the day it is the only series of radio dramas in which Laurence Olivier ever appeared. He was joined by Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud, Orson Welles, Robert Morley, John Mills, Michael Redgrave, Trevor Howard, Robert Donut, Alec Guinness and Margaret Lockwood. Over the Years, Theatre Royal has received a glittering array of accolades, including: “vivid, tense, and compressed.”( Classic radio) “Craft, like character, ages well.”(Daily Telegraph) “Great fun to listen to and, as radio history, they are unsurpassed.” (Sunday Telegraph) “Voices like these justify the Golden Days tag. We won't hear their like again.” (Sunday Times) “A must for archive fans. The excitement of vintage radio drama with strong storylines.” (Radio Times.)
©2011 Heritage Media Ltd (P)2011 Heritage Media Ltd
The War of the Worlds
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This is a story so gripping and so authentic that its popularity has grown over generations. It is more popular now than it was when first written. It was 1898 when Wells crafted his seminal tale of grotesque tentacled Martians and their terrifying tripod fighting machines commencing their invasion of Earth from a landing site in a sandpit at Horsell Common, southwest of London. It is a suspenseful, entirely believable account of how one man and his family react and survive amidst the initial incredulity, and then the awakening terror, panic, and despair that overtakes millions of Londoners as the Martians slowly advance. The Hollywood blockbuster War of the Worlds, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise was based on this novel. However this audiobook is not associated with the movie. This audio version is completely faithful to the H.G. Wells novel.
Public Domain (P)2005 Shane Sody (Sody Audio Books)
The Island of Dr. Moreau (Dramatized)
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Dr. Moreau, misunderstood and hounded by the London medical community, retreats to a Pacific island to continue his experiments. The goal: nothing less than to surgically rebuild animals into the shape of men and to teach them the meaning of humanity. "What is the law? Not to eat flesh or fish, that is the law; are we not men? What is the law? Not to chase other men, that is the law; are we not men?" As castaway Edward Prendick learns, Moreau is a feared, wrathful "god" to his beastmen. And in comparing Moreau to his lumbering, gentle servant M'Ling, it is sometimes difficult to tell which is the man, and which is the beast. Wells' classic shocker raises the question of what it means to be human. "Pain...is such a little thing". Herbert George Wells is perhaps best known for his groundbreaking science fiction (The Time Machine) and social commentary (The Shape of Things to Come), but his place in horror fiction is assured by his novella "The Island of Dr. Moreau". This is a full-cast, soundscaped audio dramatization of a classic story from one of the masters of the genre.
©1995 Atlanta Radio Theatre Company (P)1995 Atlanta Radio Theatre Company
The Time Machine
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Do you want to listen to The Time Machine? If so then keep reading.... H.G. Wells, a pioneer in the science fiction genre, produced awesomely imaginative novels whose technologies seem impossibly sophisticated for a writer living in an era before automobiles and the widespread application of electricity. In his work The Time Machine, Wells’ Time Traveller, a gentleman inventor living in England, traverses first thousands of years and then millions into the future, before bringing back the knowledge of the grave degeneration of the human race and the planet. One wonders if Wells could truly see into the future, as over 100 years after its publication date his visions seem timelier than ever. What are you waiting for The Time Machine is one click away, select the “Download” button in the top right corner NOW!
Public Domain (P)2020 Native Publishing House
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L'isola del dottor Moreau [The Island of Dr. Moreau]
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L'isola del dottor Moreau (The Island of Dr. Moreau) è un romanzo di fantascienza di H.G. Wells, scritto nel 1895 e pubblicato l'anno successivo. È stato pubblicato in italiano per la prima volta nel 1900 dalla Società Editrice Nazionale col titolo L'isola delle Bestie ed edito in seguito anche come L'isola del terrore e L'isola del Dr. Moreau. Please note: This audiobook is in Italian.
©2017 Paperless (P)2018 Paperless
The Invisible Man
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Brought to you by Penguin. Depicting one man's transformation and descent into brutality, H.G. Wells's The Invisible Man is a riveting exploration of science's power to corrupt. This Penguin Classics edition is edited by Patrick Parrinder with notes by Andy Sawyer and an introduction by Christopher Priest, author of The Prestige. With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin - the new guest at The Coach and Horses - is at first assumed to be a shy accident-victim. But the true reason for his disguise is far more chilling: he has developed a process that has made him invisible and is locked in a struggle to discover the antidote. Forced from the village and driven to murder, he seeks the aid of his old friend Kemp. The horror of his fate has affected his mind, however - and when Kemp refuses to help, Griffin resolves to wreak his revenge. This edition includes a full biographical essay on Wells, a further listening list and detailed notes on the text. In his introduction, Christopher Priest considers the novel's impact upon modern literature.
Public Domain (P)2020 Penguin Audio
12 Books to Read Before You Die - Volume 2
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12 Books to Read Before You Die - Volume 2 The Prophet - Khalil Gibran Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë White Fang - Jack London The Time Machine - H. G. Wells Agnes Grey - Anne Brontë The Blockade Runner - Jules Verne Cleopatra - The Biography - Jacob Abbott The Black Arrow - Robert Louis Stevenson Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas The Diaries of Adam and Eve - Mark Twain Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to 12 Books to Read Before You Die - Volume 2 and experience the compelling world of the fiction stories in this anthology by various writers.
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