This 2009 leather-bound edition published by Barnes & Noble is one beautiful book! Very inexpensive - it's entirely manufactured in China. But with stylishly embossed leather with an artistically-designed and colored scene from War of the Worlds on the front, silver-edged page block all around, and beautiful outer space illustrations on the interior endpapers, I don't think one could hope for a nicer edition of classical works of SF by H.G. Wells. For the price, it's simply unbelievable.

The novels included in the book are:
- The Time Machine
- The Island of Dr. Moreau
- The Invisible Man
- The War of the Worlds
- The First Men in the Moon
- The Food of the Gods
- In the Days of the Comet

All his masterpieces, in one beautiful volume. Excellent! I read most of these about 40 years ago. I think it's time to pay another visit! ( )

I have never read the classics (Dickens, Hemingway, etc.) because "literature" is not my favorite subject. I am a fan of science fiction though, so I thought I should at least know the classics from that genre. I picked this book up at Barns and Noble for $13 and it contains seven of H.G. Wells’ novels. I’ll probably never read Tale of Two Cities, but if I want to be well rounded about the type of books I do like, I should at least know The War of the Worlds.