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The War of the Worlds de H. G. Wells

The War of the Worlds

Autor H. G. Wells Ilustrat de Alex Struik
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Imaginați-vă sentimentul de neliniște profundă în fața necunoscutului, o teroare care se instalează lent pe măsură ce cerul Angliei victoriene este străpuns de lumini inexplicabile. The War of the Worlds nu este doar un simplu roman polițist sau de aventură, ci piatra de temelie a genului invaziei extraterestre. Considerăm că forța acestei scrieri rezidă în contrastul brutal dintre viața cotidiană liniștită din Surrey și tehnologia marțiană de neînțeles — cilindri masivi care devorează peisajul și raze termice care anihilează orice rezistență umană. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care H. G. Wells construiește o atmosferă de neputință biologică și tehnologică, transformând mândrul Imperiu Britanic într-o pradă vulnerabilă.

Spre deosebire de explorarea temporală din The Time Machine, unde amenințarea era degradarea speciei umane în viitorul îndepărtat, aici pericolul este extern și imediat. Imaginați-vă tensiunea din The First Men in the Moon, mutată într-un decor de război total pe străzile Londrei. Structura cărții, împărțită în două volume — sosirea și apoi ocupația propriu-zisă — oferă o perspectivă panoramică asupra colapsului social. Această ediție specială îmbogățește experiența lecturii prin includerea unor anexe valoroase, de la eseuri precum „Intelligence on Mars” la recenzii din 1898, oferind cititorului contextul științific și cultural în care Wells și-a imaginat acest „scientific romance”. Apreciem cum autorul integrează detalii biologice riguroase, transformând marțienii în entități „vitale și monstruoase”, departe de orice reprezentare umanoidă clasică.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781480098510
ISBN-10: 1480098515
Pagini: 220
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această ediție oricărui pasionat de literatură clasică și science-fiction care dorește să exploreze originile genului. Cititorul câștigă nu doar o poveste captivantă despre supraviețuire, ci și o analiză critică a imperialismului victorian. Este o oportunitate rară de a vedea cum marile teme ale omenirii — frica de celălalt și fragilitatea civilizației — au fost articulate pentru prima dată cu o asemenea precizie vizionară.

Despre autor

H. G. Wells (1866–1946) a fost un scriitor britanic prolific, adesea numit „părintele science-fiction-ului”. Autor de o versatilitate remarcabilă, el a navigat între beletristică, istorie și comentariu social, fiind un profet al tehnologiilor moderne precum aviația, tancurile și chiar internetul. Prin „Legea lui Wells”, el a revoluționat literatura fantastică, inserând un singur element extraordinar într-un cadru realist, cotidian. Operele sale fundamentale, precum The Invisible Man și The Island of Doctor Moreau, rămân repere ale imaginației umane, explorând limitele eticii și ale evoluției biologice.

Descriere scurtă

The War of the Worlds (1898), a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, is the first-person narrative of an unnamed protagonist's adventures in London and the countryside around London as Earth is invaded by Martians. Written in 1895-97, it is one of the earliest stories that details a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. Herbert George "H. G." Wells (21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946) was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing textbooks and rules for war games. Together with Jules Verne, Wells has been referred to as "The Father of Science Fiction." His most notable science fiction works include The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau.

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A powerful, delightful new edition. Cylinders land on earth and the invaders, from Mars, with their huge, round bodies and tentacles, start to vaporize the people of Earth. Houses, towns and cities are soon destroyed in a spiral of violence, creating civil panic and mass evacuations before a foul black smoke is released by the aggressive alien force. But the fightback must begin, and it comes from an unexpected quarter. H.G. Wells' classic tale of invasion has stirred our imagination for over a hundred years. Its intense mix of realism and fantasy continues to prick at anyone interested in a great adventure story by a master storyteller. This gorgeous collectable classic includes the short story 'A Dream of Armageddon' and another tale of Wells' seminal early science fiction, The First Men in the Moon.
Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader.

Notă biografică

Herbert George Wells was born in Bromley, Kent, England, on September 21, 1866. His father was a professional cricketer and sometime shopkeeper, his mother a former lady’s maid. Although "Bertie" left school at fourteen to become a draper’s apprentice (a life he detested), he later won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in London, where he studied with the famous Thomas Henry Huxley. He began to sell articles and short stories regularly in 1893. In 1895, his immediately successful novel rescued him from a life of penury on a schoolteacher’s salary. His other "scientific romances"—The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898), The First Men in the Moon (1901), and The War in the Air (1908)—won him distinction as the father of science fiction.Henry James saw in Wells the most gifted writer of the age, but Wells, having coined the phrase "the war that will end war" to describe World War I, became increasingly disillusioned and focused his attention on educating mankind with his bestselling Outline of History (1920) and his later utopian works. Living until 1946, Wells witnessed a world more terrible than any of his imaginative visions, and he bitterly observed: "Reality has taken a leaf from my book and set itself to supercede me."

Isaac Asimov authored over 400 books in a career that lasted nearly 50 years. As a leading scientific writer, historian, and futurist, he covered a variety of subjects ranging from mathematics to humor, and won numerous awards for his work.

Recenzii

H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, the first story to speculate about the consequences of aliens (from Mars) with superior technology landing on earth, is one of the most influential science fiction books ever written. The novel is both a thrilling narrative and an elaboration of Wells’s socio-political thought on the subjects of imperialism, humankind’s treatment of other animals, and unquestioning faith in military technology and the continuation of the human species.
This edition’s appendices include other related writings by Wells; selected correspondence; contemporary reviews; excerpts from works that influenced the novel and from contemporary invasion narratives; and photographs of examples of Victorian military technology.

“Martin Danahay’s edition shows the extent to which The War of the Worlds draws on the biological and astronomical theories, political ideologies, and military technology of its time. Readers who want to appreciate this greatest of all alien narratives in its original Victorian context cannot do better than to consult this edition.” — Patrick Parrinder, University of Reading
“One reads this edition with great pleasure. The novel is lightly and intelligently annotated, making concise sense of all the local allusions that make this remarkable fantasy so realistic. The appendices, which reprint portions of articles from the 1890s, suggest an intellectual context for the work and are often interesting in themselves, especially Percival Lowell’s meditation on how some form of life might develop on Mars. The pictures of the various guns, cannons, ships, and other machinery mentioned in the novel give a wonderful sense of the scale of the war.” — John Huntington, University of Illinois at Chicago

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Introduction
H.G.Wells: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
The War of the Worlds
Appendix A: H.G. Wells on The War of the Worlds
  1. H.G. Wells, from Strand Magazine (1920)
  2. H.G. Wells, from “Preface to Volume III” (1924)
Appendix B: Wells’s Publications Related to The War of the Worlds
  1. H.G. Wells, from “Zoological Retrogression” (1891)
  2. H.G. Wells, “On Extinction” (1893)
  3. H.G. Wells, from “The Advent of the Flying Man: An InevitableOccurrence” (1893)
  4. H.G. Wells, from “The Man of the Year Million” (1893)
  5. H.G. Wells, from “Another Basis for Life” (1894)
  6. H.G. Wells, “The Extinction of Man: Some SpeculativeSuggestions” (1894)
  7. H.G. Wells, from “The Stolen Bacillus” (1894)
  8. H.G. Wells, “Intelligence on Mars” (1896)
  9. H.G. Wells, “Through a Microscope” (1897)
Appendix C: Extracts from Wells’s Correspondence
Appendix D: Reviews of The War of the Worlds
  1. John St. Loe Strachey, from Spectator (29 January 1898)
  2. Academy (29 January 1898)
  3. R.A. Gregory, from Nature (10 February 1898)
  4. Basil Williams, from Athenaeum (5 February 1898)
Appendix E: Influences on Wells
  1. Winwood Reade, from The Martyrdom of Man (1872, 1875)
  2. T.H. Huxley, from Evolution and Ethics (1893)
  3. H.G.Wells, from “Huxley” (1901)
Appendix F: Invasion Narratives
  1. William Le Queux, from The Great War in England in 1897 (1894)
  2. “Grip” (pseudonym), from How John Bull Lost London (1882)
Appendix G: Mars in 1898
  1. Nature (2 August 1894)
  2. Percival Lowell, from Mars (1895)
Appendix H: Woking and Surrey
  1. A.R. Hope Moncrieff, from Black’s Guide to Surrey (1898)
  2. Eric Parker, from Highways and Byways in Surrey (1908)
Appendix I: The Victorian Military, 1890s
  1. Field Artillery
  2. Gunners of Field Artillery
  3. High-Angle Firing
  4. Machine Gun Detachment
  5. Heliograph Operators
  6. 1st Dragoons
  7. H.M.S.Thunderer
  8. H.M.S. Ramilles
Selected Bibliography