H. G. Wells

The Time Machine + The Invisible Man + The War of the Worlds (3 Unabridged Science Fiction Classics) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Time Machine + The Invisible Man + The War of the Worlds (3 Unabridged Science Fiction Classics)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. H.G. Wells is an English author best known as a sci-fi writer, though he was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, and even writing text books and rules for war games. The first great novel to imagine time travel, The Time Machine (1895) follows its scientist narrator on an incredible journey that takes him finally to Earth's last moments—and perhaps his own. The scientist who discovers how to transform himself in The Invisible Man (1897) will also discover, too late, that he has become unmoored from society and from his own sanity. The War of the Worlds (1898)—the seminal masterpiece of alien invasion adapted by Orson Welles for his notorious 1938 radio drama, and subsequently by several filmmakers—imagines a fierce race of Martians who devastate Earth and feed on their human victims while their voracious vegetation, the red weed, spreads over the ruined planet...

Produktdetails

• Verlag: e-artnow
• Seitenzahl: 1200
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9788074844928
• Artikelnr.: 47378235

Autorenporträt

H. G. Wells (1866–1946) was a prolific English writer in many genres, prominent in his time as a socialist and a pacifist as well as a pioneer of science fiction. Margaret Drabble is the award-winning author of seventeen novels, including The Seven Sisters, The Peppered Moth, The Witch of Exmoor, and The Needle’s Eye. She has written several biographies and works of nonfiction and edited The Oxford Companion to English Literature. She lives in London and Somerset.