Bøker av H. G. Wells

An edition of H.G. Wells' famous novel, The Time Machine.

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was an English author best known for his science fiction, including War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and The Invisible Man. (The History of Mr. Polly is one of his middle-period novels that covered lower-middle class life.

H. G. Wells is regarded as one of the greatest science-fiction writers of all time. In this carefully selected collection is contained 'The Father of Science Fiction's greatest science fiction and fantasy writings, including stories such as 'The Invasion from Mars' and 'The Valley of the Spiders'.

H. G. Wells is regarded as one of the greatest science-fiction writers of all time. First published in 1888, 'The Chronic Argonauts' features the first properly developed 'time machine' in all of science fiction. Many of the finest stories of magic and fantasy, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

"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; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied."

"ARE WE NOT MEN?" Edward Prendick survives a shipwreck and winds up on a remote Pacific island, where a mad scientist is vivisecting animals to create hybrid beast people. Will Prendick survive and recover from the horrors he has seen? Will anyone believe him? In this classic early science-fiction novel, H.G. Wells exposes the anxieties of the Victorian Age: fearing the implications of evolutionary theory, disturbed by the godlike power of science over nature, & doubtful about the inevitability of human progress. Might humans be capable of degeneration? The Island of Dr. Moreau raises vital questions about bioethics, animal rights, & the nature of humanity. Published by Spruce Alley Press

This edition's appendices include other related writings by Wells; selected correspondence; contemporary reviews; excerpts from works that influenced the novel and from contemporary invasion narratives; and photographs of examples of Victorian military technology.