H. G. Wells

The World Set Free By H. G. Wells"The World Set Free" book has a beautiful glossy cover and a blank page for the dedication." The World Set Free was written under the immediate shadow of the Great War. Every intelligent person in the world felt that disaster was impending and knew no way of averting it, but few of us realised in the earlier half of 1914 how near the crash was to us. The reader will be amused to find that here it is put off until the year 1956. He may naturally want to know the reason for what will seem now a quite extraordinary delay. As a prophet, the author must confess he has always been inclined to be rather a slow prophet. The war aeroplane in the world of reality, for example, beat the forecast in Anticipations by about twenty years or so. I suppose a desire not to shock the sceptical reader's sense of use and wont and perhaps a less creditable disposition to hedge, have something to do with this dating forward of one's main events, but in the particular case of The World Set Free there was, I think, another motive in holding the Great War back, and that was to allow the chemist to get well forward with his discovery of the release of atomic energy."

The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsH. G. Wells's classic tale of planetary conquest.

The Island of Dr. Moreau By H. G. WellsEdward Prendick is shipwrecked in the Pacific. Rescued by Doctor Moreau's assistant he is taken to the doctor's island home where he discovers the doctor has been experimenting on the animal inhabitants of the island, creating bizarre proto-humans...

The War in the Air H. G. Wells "The War in the Air" is a story of the awful devastation following a conflict between two first-class powers with the resources of the air at their command. It is one of the most brilliant and successful of Mr. Wells's studies in futurity We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Las f bulas ideadas por Herbert George Wells (1866-1846), uno de los padres, acaso el m s notable, de la ciencia ficci n, has demostrado a lo largo del tiempo mantener un vigor y tocar unos resortes del inconsciente humano que a menudo las han elevado a iconos del mundo moderno. La guerra de los mundos (1898), relato trepidante que narra la invasi n de la Tierra por los marcianos y supuso por primera verz la irrupci n de seres de otros planetas en el nuestro, marc en buena medida la fantas a del siglo XX y abri un fil n -el del contacto de los hombres con seres extraterrestres- que no tard en convertirse en uno de los m s importantes de la ciencia ficci n, sirviendo de inspiraci n a numerosos artistas posteriores en los mbitos de la radio, el cine, la literatura, el c mic y la televisi n.

The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories By H. G. Wells