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Wells, H: Time Machine

Wells, H: Time Machine


en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 dec 2019
Herbert George Wells, the acknowledged father of modern Science Fiction, rose from humble beginnings to produce some of the best known works of the genre. The Time Machine tells the tale of the first time-traveller, who journeys 80,000 years into the future and finds his belief in the inevitability of scientific progress sorely tested. The human race has split into two separate species, the placid, incurious Eloi, and the loathesome, subterranean Moloch, who capture his marvellous machine and whose nocturnal existence shrouds a hideous secret. First published in 1895, The Time Machine still sparkles with that originality and imaginative use of scientific theory that became Wells' hallmark in War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, and all his later writings.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781911405962
ISBN-10: 1911405969
Pagini: 96
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 6 mm
Greutate: 0.1 kg
Editura: AZILOTH BOOKS

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Brilliantly imaginative fiction or the shape of things to come? H.G. Wells's masterpiece still retains its power to provoke and enthral. In the Time Traveller's miraculous new machine, we will be carried from a Victorian dinner table to 802,701 AD, when the Earth is divided between the gentle, ineffective Eloi, and the ape-like Morlocks; forward again by a million years or so to glimpse a dying world of blood-red beaches and menacing shapes; and on again to the last days of our planet, a remote twilight where nothing moves but darkness and a cold wind.

Notă biografică

Herbert George Wells is called the Father of Science Fiction because of his groundbreaking works in establishing the genre. His most influential pieces include The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, and The Island of Doctor Moreau. The youngest of four children, Wells was born in Kent, England in 1866 to former domestic servants. He became enamored with reading in his childhood while mending a broken leg. During his failed early career paths he still read extensively from the house library where his mother had returned to working as a servant. He became a teacher at Midhurst Grammar school and later won a scholarship to study science at what became the Royal College of Science in London. He joined the Debating Society there and developed an interest in philosophers and the reformation of society-specifically, the concept of socialism. He wrote for the school journal and published his first serialized fiction story soon after, a precursor to The Time Machine. A prolific writer, Wells dabbled in nearly every genre, but is best known for his science fiction, and is credited with predicting the invention of tanks, nuclear weaponry, aircraft, and even the nebulous concept of the internet. He was a four-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died at the age of 79 in his home at Regent's Park on August 13, 1946.