H. G. Wells

The Flowering of the Strange Orchid (MP3-Download)

Ungekürzte Lesung. 22 Min.
Sprecher: Crank, Stewart

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Produktbeschreibung

The buying of orchids always has in it a certain speculative flavour. You have before you the brown shrivelled lump of tissue, and for the rest you must trust your judgment, or the auctioneer, or your good luck, as your taste may incline. The plant may be moribund or dead, or it may be just a respectable purchase, fair value for your money, or perhaps-for the thing has happened again and again-there slowly unfolds before the delighted eyes of the happy purchaser, day after day, some new variety, some novel richness, a strange twist of the labellum, or some subtler colouration or unexpected mimicry. Pride, beauty, and profit blossom together on one delicate green spike, and, it may be, even immortality. For the new miracle of nature may stand in need of a new specific name, and what so convenient as that of its discoverer? "John-smithia"! There have been worse names.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bookstream Audiobooks
• Gesamtlaufzeit: 22 Min.
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783991342403
• Artikelnr.: 65834553

Autorenporträt

H. G. Wells (1866-1946) was a writer most well-known for science fiction titles such as 'War of the Worlds' and 'The Time Machine.' In many ways he is often considered to be a pioneer in the science fiction genre, though he also wrote short fiction, satire, social commentaries, biography and autobiography. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature on four occasions. In addition to writing, he was a teacher, historian and artist.