The Fantasy Collection: 3 Volume Set (Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classics) »

The Fantasy and Science Fiction Collection features three classic titles for an incredible value. Each world-transporting title in the series presents a classic work in an attractively designed edition bound in genuine bonded leather. These books make elegant, eye-catching additions to any home library. The collection includes:

• H.G. Wells: Seven Novels
• Jules Verne: Seven Novels
• The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Immensely popular during his lifetime, H. G. Wells, along with Jules Verne, is credited with inventing science fiction. This new volume Wells's best-loved and most critically acclaimed works. In each, the author grounds his fantastical imagination in scientific fact and conjecture while lacing his narrative with vibrant action, not merely to tell a "ripping yarn," but to offer a biting critique on the world around him. "The strength of Mr. Wells," wrote Arnold Bennett, "lies in the fact that he is not only a scientist, but a most talented student of character, especially quaint character. He will not only ingeniously describe for you a scientific miracle, but he will set down that miracle in the midst of a country village, sketching with excellent humor the inn-landlady, the blacksmith, the chemist's apprentice, the doctor, and all the other persons whom the miracle affects."

Writing in France in the nineteenth century, Jules Verne expressed the universal fascination with adventure and exploration. Collecting Five Weeks in a Balloon, Around the World in Eighty Days, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Round the Moon, Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and The Mysterious Island, this omnibus offers a unique compilation of seven of Verne's Voyages extraordinaires, stories in which he extrapolated developing technology and invention into marvelous fiction. This volume offers readers a generous introduction to Jules Verne, whose books are as alive today as they were for readers new to the ideas expressed in them during his time.

Your planet has just been destroyed and you're lost in the space-time continuum, but—Don't Panic! Just thumb your way to the end of the universe for a nice cuppa tea with the help of The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, your Baedeker for intergalactic zaniness. Featuring all five novels in Douglas Adams's beloved Hitchhiker's series—The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, the Universe and Everything; So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish; Mostly Harmless—and the bonus short story "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe," this omnibus provides you with the perfect itinerary for sightseeing across the universe, from the beginning to the end of time. Along the way you'll meet paranoid robots, avert Armageddon (more than once!), and learn the answer to the ultimate question concerning life, the universe, and everything—even though you'll never learn what the question is. So strap in, get ready for lift-off, and prepare yourself for comedy on a cosmic scale.