Herbert George Wells

Un caballero de clase alta llamado Edward Prendick, naufraga en el oc ano. Un barco que pasa lo sube a bordo, donde un m dico llamado Montgomery lo reanima. Montgomery le cuenta a Prendick que se dirigen a una isla sin nombre donde trabaja, y que los animales del buque viajan con l. Prendick tambi n conoce a un nativo grotesco y bestial llamado M'ling, que parece ser el siervo de Montgomery.

Invasi n de la Tierra por los marcianos y que supuso por primera vez 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.

Cient fico que teoriza que si se cambia el ndice refractivo de una persona para coincidir exactamente con el del aire y su cuerpo no absorbe ni refleja la luz, entonces no ser visible. Griffin logra llevar a cabo este proceso consigo mismo, pero luego no puede volver a ser visible, llegando a un estado mental inestable como resultado.

Trata sobre un hombre, Lionel Wallace, que, en un momento de intimidad con su mejor amigo, le cuenta un secreto que ha marcado toda su vida desde que ten a cinco a os de edad.

New Worlds For Old-A Plain Account of Modern Socialism is a classic H. G. Wells politics essay. Mr. Wells claims the name of socialist without blindly subscribing to the programme of any present form of socialistic theory. He aims in this book (which is not a novel) to set forth the principles upon which socialism resets. New Worlds for Old identifies two "Main Generalizations of Socialism": (1) "The ideas of the private individual rights of the parent and of his isolated responsibility for his children are harmfully exaggerated in the contemporary world." "The idea of the private ownership of things and the rights of owners is enormously and mischievously exaggerated in the contemporary world." Wells advocates the replacement of a "social system, based on Private Ownership" with one based on the "spirit of service," arguing that this will be more productive as well as more just. He devotes several chapters to addressing objections to socialism, then analyzes the history of socialism. Wells places the origins of socialism in "a disconnected series of protests against the extreme theories of Individualism and Individualist Political Economy" and notes that the word dates from 1835; in its initial phase, he says, it was "immediately revolutionary" and teemed with "rash, suggestive schemes." 4] This early phase was ended by Karl Marx, who, influenced by evolutionary thinking, "for the first time viewed our age of individualist industrial development, not as a possible permanent condition of humanity, but as something unstable and in motion, as an economic process." But Wells rejects the "revolutionary socialism" of Marx as flawed by an exaggeration of the economic factor, an invidious concept of class warfare, and an excessive determinism. In a following chapter, he criticizes the "administration socialism" of which the Fabians are an example, as excessively bureaucratic in spirit. The label Wells gives to what he advocates is "constructive socialism," which is to be realized "through the operation of a collective mind that must by its nature be constructive and enterprising, because only through the creation of such a mind can Socialism be brought about." For Wells, socialism is more in the nature of a religion than a political movement. Near the end of New Worlds for Old, he writes: "Socialism is a moral and intellectual process, let me in conclusion reiterate that. Only secondarily and incidentally does it sway the world of politics. It is not a political movement; it may engender political movements, but it can never become a political movement; any political body, any organization whatever, that professes to stand for Socialism, makes an altogether too presumptuous claim. . . . There can be no pontifical Socialism; the theory lives and grows. It springs out of the common sanity of mankind.

Unique survivant d'un naufrage, Edward Prendick est secouru par Montgomery, passager d'un navire faisant route vers une le tropicale avec une cargaison d'animaux. Montgomery est l'assistant du docteur Moreau, un scientifique obs d par la vivisection et la transfusion sanguine. Prendick d couvre avec effroi que, depuis dix ans, les deux hommes se livrent des exp riences sur les animaux, en r alisant des greffes et de multiples interventions chirurgicales, afin d'en faire des hommes capables de penser et de parler. Les hommes-b tes vivent dans un village et ob issent La Loi, un ensemble de r gles leur interdisant les comportements primitifs et pr nant la v n ration de Moreau, qu'ils appellent Ma tre ...