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At the village of Lympne, on the south coast of England, the "most uneventful place in the world" the failed playwright Mr. Bedford meets the brilliant inventor Mr. Cavor, and together they invade the moon. Dreaming respectively of scientific renown and of mineral wealth, they fashion a sphere from the gravity-defying substance Cavorite and go where no human has gone before. They expect a dead world, but instead they find lunar plants that grow in a single day, giant moon-calves and the ant-like Selenites, the super-adapted inhabitants of the Moon's utopian society.  The First Men in the Moon is both an inspired and imaginative fantasy of space travel and alien life, and a satire of turn-of-the-century Britain and of utopian dreams of a wholly ordered and rational society.

Oxford World's Classics

The First Men In The Moon

With an Introduction and Notes by Linda Dryden, Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh Napier University and the author of Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells: The Fin-de Siecle-Literary Scene. At the end of the nineteenth century a stranger arrives in the Sussex countryside and mayhem ensues; in the sleepy county of Kent a miracle food brings biological chaos that engulfs and threatens the entire planet. H. G. Wells's fertile and mercurial imagination never brought us more bizarre and unsettling stories than those revealed in The Invisible Man (1897) and The Food of the Gods, and How It Came to Earth (1904). These are stories of extraordinary physical transformations and are at once extremely funny and richly imaginative. At the same time, Wells poses some very probing questions about the ethical dimensions to science and the human capacity for both pity and cruelty. Brought together for the first time in this new Wordsworth edition, The Invisible Man and The Food of the Gods are two of Wells's most entertaining and thought-provoking works.

Wordsworth Classics

The Invisible Man & The Food Of The Gods

H.G. Wells was a pioneer of the science fiction genre and a man of boundless imagination. Whether describing marvelous new technologies, the vagaries of space flight or the risks of scientific development, his writings have continually captivated readers across the globe.This gorgeous cloth-bound treasury includes:- The First Men in the Moon- The War of the Worlds- The Invisible Man- The Island of Doctor Moreau- When the Sleeper Wakes- The Time Machine & Other StoriesEach of these stories marries exciting adventure with a poignant probing of scientific progress and its dangers - a signature combination of H.G. Wells which marks him as a true master of science-fiction.

The H.G. Wells Collection

"Each time I dip a living creature into the bath of burning pain, I say: this time I will burn out all the animal, this time I will make a rational creature of my own!"; declares Doctor Moreau to hapless narrator Edward Prendick. Moreau's highly controversial methods and ambitions conflict with the religious, moral and scientific norms of his day and Wells later called The Island of Doctor Moreau "a youthful exercise in blasphemy". Today his vivid depictions of the Beast People still strike modern readers with an uncanny glimpse of the animal in the human, while the behaviour of humans leave us wondering who is the most monstrous after all. 
This volume unites four of Wells' liveliest and most engaging tales of the strange evolution and behaviour of animals - including human beings. The Island of Doctor Moreau is followed by three fantastic yet chillingly plausible short stories of human-animal encounters. 'The Empire of the Ants' is a darkly humorous account of intelligent Amazonian ants threatening to displace humans as "the lords of the future and masters of the earth". In 'The Sea Raiders', the south coast of England is terrorized by an unwelcome visit from deep-sea predator Haploteuthis ferox, while 'Aepyornis Island' provides a marooned egg collector with an unusual companion.

The Island Of Doctor Moreau & Other Stories

H. G. Wells is often referred to as 'the father of science fiction' and this compendium of his stories contains two of his most well-known works in the genre, The Time Machine (1895) and The War of the Worlds (1897). In addition, the reader is treated to some stories of truly extraordinary dimensions: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), When the Sleeper Wakes (1899), The First Men in the Moon (1901) and The Food of the Gods and How it came to Earth (1904). But Wells's phenomenal imagination ranged far and wide and thus we have included here two works of comic social realism, Kipps (1905) and The History of Mr. Polly (1910), stories that resound with Edwardian dreams, frustrations and triumphs. Wells is such a brilliant storyteller that well over a century after their publication, all of these texts are as fresh and compelling to us today as they would have been when his initial readers first turned their pages, often in astonishment and frequently in amusement. This is certainly a collection of the very best of H.G. Wells and we encourage you to devour them, and above all to enjoy the mercurial talent of this most original and precocious writer.

The Selected Works Of H. G. Wells

The War Of The Worlds

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Andrew Frayn, Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University. In these two compelling novels H.G. Wells imagines terrifying futures in which civilisation itself is threatened.The narrator of The War of the Worlds is quick to discover that what appeared to be a falling star was, in fact, a metallic cylinder landing from Mars. Six million people begin to flee London in panic as tentacled invaders emerge and overpower the city. With their heat-ray, killing machines, black gas, and a taste for fresh human blood, is there anything that can be done to stop the Martians?In The War in the Air, naive but resourceful Bert Smallways is thrilled by speed and fascinated by the new flying machines. His curiosity sweeps him away by accident into a German plan to conquer America, beginning with the destruction of New York. The ease of movement in aerial warfare means that nothing and nobody is safe as Total War erupts, civilisation crumbles, and Bert's hopes of getting back to London to marry his love seem impossibly distant.

The War Of The Worlds & The War In The Air

El descubrimiento de una fórmula médica magistral y altamente rentable revela los entresijos del complejo y absurdo mundo del éxito financiero.
Promocionado como si fuera la panacea universal, Tono-Bungay no es más que un tónico de sabor agradable sin ningún efecto beneficioso para la salud que se pueda demostrar. Aun así, cuando George Ponderevo empieza a trabajar con su tío en la venta de la pócima, no deja de sorprenderse por su repentino éxito, un éxito que cambiará sus vidas por completo. La fórmula les brinda una fortuna que les abrirá las puertas de mundos de lujo, finanzas y poder hasta entonces desconocidos. Pero toda ascensión social debe preservarse con uñas y dientes, lo cual conlleva algunos riesgos.  «Para un muchacho del 1900 era una experiencia maravillosa descubrir a H. G. Wells.» George Orwell

Clásicos (Debolsillo)

Tono-bungay

De la capacidad fabuladora de H.G. Wells, de su visión de futuro, de su humor e imaginación dan buena muestra las colecciones originales de relatos publicadas hasta la fecha en Avatares: El bacilo robado y otros incidentes / Cuentos del espacio y el tiempo -ambas en Avatares núm. 38-, La máquina del tiempo y otros relatos / La historia de Plattner y otras narraciones -ambas en Avatares núm. 43-; además de Doce historias y un sueño, publicada en El Club Diógenes (núm. 35). Todos estos relatos fueron reunidos en 1927 por Ernest Benn en un solo volumen titulado The short stories of H.G. Wells, edición considerada canónica. El presente volumen El nuevo Fausto y otras narraciones (cuyas historias se han extraído de The Man with a Nose and the Other Uncollected Short Stories of H.G. Wells, 1984) reúne veintidós relatos de distintas épocas que, por diferentes motivos, no fueron incluidas por Wells en ninguna de las colecciones mencionadas anteriormente, y, como «regalo», se ha incluido el guión cinematográfico «El nuevo Fausto» -en el que Wells se replantea con ciertas dosis de humor la inmortalidad en términos de trasplante de alma o recambio de cuerpo-, escrito en 1936 y nunca llevado al cine. La variedad temática de estos cuentos va desde el misterio, el terror y hasta lo demoníaco -en «El devoto del arte», «Walcote», «La presencia junto al fuego» y «La cosa del núm. 7»-, hasta la comedia social, la crítica e incluso la farsa con elementos fantásticos -en «Un artista incomprendido», «Un perfecto caballero sobre ruedas» o «El tesoro del rajá»-; sin olvidar la ciencia ficción -en «La extraña historia en el periódico de Brownlow».

El nuevo fausto y otras narraciones

When a Martian spacecraft lands on Woking Common, mankind is terrorized by aliens in tall, armored capsules which stalk the countryside on three legs. The machines wreak havoc on London and the Southern Counties, and survivors are driven underground. Scientist John Nicholson tells how he was plunged into a paralyzing nightmare of stark terror, savage madness and utter destruction.

La guerra de los mundos

El hombre invisible

La máquina del tiempo

Un clásico incuestionable de la ciencia ficción que, dentro de las obras del autor, mejor explota los temores y las expectativas acerca de la posibilidad de vida extraterrestre a finales del siglo XIX.Además de una formidable novela de ciencia ficción, La guerra de los mundos es una crítica a la Inglaterra victoriana y a su afán imperialista. Los marcianos atacan la Tierra de manera traicionera pero son derrotados por el más inesperado aliado de la raza humana. Un narrador anónimo relata todos los pormenores y describe escenas que ya forman parte del imaginario colectivo contemporáneo, como la imagen fantasmagórica de las naves alienígenas que surgen de las entrañas de la Tierra para sembrar la destrucción. Publicada originalmente en 1898, la historia se mantiene vigente como una invitación a reflexionar sobre el destino de nuestro planeta, sin perder la esperanza en la salvación.

La máquina del tiempo (cara y cruz)

El país de los ciegos y otros relatos

Breve historia del mundo. Los grandes acontecimientos de la humanidad contados con la pasión y la in

UNA HISTORIA DE LOS TIEMPOS VENIDEROS

LOS PRIMEROS HOMBRES EN LA LUNA

LA ISLA DEL DR. MOREAU

The First Men In The Moon (2017)

The Invisible Man & The Food Of The Gods (2017)

The H.G. Wells Collection (2019)

The Island Of Doctor Moreau & Other Stories (2017)

The Selected Works Of H. G. Wells (2017)

The War Of The Worlds (2012)

The War Of The Worlds & The War In The Air (2017)

Tono-bungay (2013)

El nuevo fausto y otras narraciones

La guerra de los mundos (2010)

El hombre invisible

La máquina del tiempo

La guerra de los mundos

La máquina del tiempo (cara y cruz)

La guerra de los mundos

La guerra de los mundos

El país de los ciegos y otros relatos

Breve historia del mundo. Los grandes acontecimientos de la humanidad contados con la pasión y la in

La máquina del tiempo

El país de los ciegos y otros relatos

La máquina del tiempo

UNA HISTORIA DE LOS TIEMPOS VENIDEROS

LOS PRIMEROS HOMBRES EN LA LUNA

LA ISLA DEL DR. MOREAU