The Great Science Fiction: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Short Stories
Exploring the primordial nightmares that lurk within humanity's dreams of progress and technology, H. G. Wells was a science fiction pioneer. This new omnibus edition brings together four of his hugely original and influential science-fiction novels - The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds - with his most unsettling and strange short stories. Containing monstrous experiments, terrifying journeys, alien occupiers and grotesque creatures, these visionary tales discomfit and disturb, and retain the power to trouble our sense of who we are.
With an introduction by Matthew Beaumont
Excellent compendium to take on holidays. A collection of short and longer stories that are brilliant reading. Can recommend.
- The Time Machine 5/5- The Island of Doctor Moreau 4/5
Herbert George Wells was born to a working class family in Kent, England. Young Wells received a spotty education, interrupted by several illnesses and family difficulties, and became a draper's apprentice as a teenager. The headmaster of Midhurst Grammar School, where he had spent a year, arranged for him to return as an "usher," or student teacher. Wells earned a government scholarship in 1884,
This is not a bad book. I must stress that. His writing is just not for me.
H.G. Wells
Paperback | Pages: 752 pages Rating: 4.22 | 36 Users | 3 Reviews
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Title | : | The Great Science Fiction: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Short Stories |
Author | : | H.G. Wells |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | First Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 752 pages |
Published | : | September 29th 2016 by Penguin Classics (first published June 22nd 2015) |
Categories | : | Science Fiction. Short Stories. Classics. Fiction |
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'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'Exploring the primordial nightmares that lurk within humanity's dreams of progress and technology, H. G. Wells was a science fiction pioneer. This new omnibus edition brings together four of his hugely original and influential science-fiction novels - The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds - with his most unsettling and strange short stories. Containing monstrous experiments, terrifying journeys, alien occupiers and grotesque creatures, these visionary tales discomfit and disturb, and retain the power to trouble our sense of who we are.
With an introduction by Matthew Beaumont
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ISBN: | 0241277493 (ISBN13: 9780241277492) |
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Ratings: 4.22 From 36 Users | 3 ReviewsComment On Appertaining To Books The Great Science Fiction: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Short Stories
- The Time Machine 5/5- The Island of Doctor Moreau 4/5Excellent compendium to take on holidays. A collection of short and longer stories that are brilliant reading. Can recommend.
- The Time Machine 5/5- The Island of Doctor Moreau 4/5
Herbert George Wells was born to a working class family in Kent, England. Young Wells received a spotty education, interrupted by several illnesses and family difficulties, and became a draper's apprentice as a teenager. The headmaster of Midhurst Grammar School, where he had spent a year, arranged for him to return as an "usher," or student teacher. Wells earned a government scholarship in 1884,
This is not a bad book. I must stress that. His writing is just not for me.
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