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The shipwrecked Edward Prendick is rescued by the passing ship Ipecacuanha, which is carrying a cargo of animals. On board he comes across Montgomery, who appears to have a grotesque servant named M'ling. They are put ashore onto an island that is owned by Dr. Moreau, formerly an eminent physiologist, who is known for his infamous experiments in vivisection.

When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance the brilliant Dr Cavor, an absent-minded scientist on the brink of developing a material that blocks gravity. Cavor soon succeeds in his experiments, only to tell a stunned Bedford the invention makes possible one of the oldest dreams of humanity: a journey to the moon. With Bedford motivated by money, and Cavor by the desire for knowledge, the two embark on the expedition.

Von den Schrecken des ersten Weltkrieges erschüttert, greift Wells den humanistischen Faden des Gedankenguts der Aufklärung auf und überträgt diesen auf den notwendigen Menschen der Zukunft, der frei von religiösen und nationalstaatlichen Dogmen für universale Werte wie Moral, Wahrhaftigkeit, Gerechtigkeit und Verständnis steht.

Trata de un profesor llamado Gibberne que en el ano 1899 invento una droga llamada el Nuevo Acelerador, como lo dice su nombre, acelera el cuerpo de quien lo toma, segun Gibberne no tiene rival en cuestion de medicamentos soporiferos, sedantes, etc. El Profesor llamo a su mejor amigo para comentarle sobre lo que podria hacer con la droga y tambien para que serviria.

A collection of three short stories and two novellas written between 1897 and 1898. All the stories had first been published in various monthly periodicals and this was the first volume to collect these stories.

"El país de los ciegos": Y Núñez se encontró a sí mismo intentando explicar el ancho mundo del que había caído, el cielo y las montañas, la visión y otros prodigios como aquellos... Y ellos se negaron a creer o a entender nada de lo que les dijo... Ni siquiera comprendieron muchas de sus palabras. Durante catorce generaciones, aquella gente había estado ciega y aislada del mundo de los videntes. Los nombres de las cosas alusivas a la visión se habían olvidado y habían cambiado.

In "The Island of Dr. Moreau", a shipwrecked gentleman named Edward Prendick, stranded on a Pacific island lorded over by the notorious Dr. Moreau, confronts dark secrets, strange creatures, and a reason to run for his life. While this riveting tale was intended to be a commentary on evolution, divine creation, and the tension between human nature and culture, modern readers familiar with genetic engineering will marvel at Wells prediction of the ethical issues raised by producing “smarter” human beings or bringing back extinct species.

The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science-fiction novel by the English author H. G. Wells (1866-1946). The story is narrated by Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat and left on the island home of Doctor Moreau. An eminent physiologist from London whose experiments in vivisection had been exposed, the doctor fled England and continued his experiments on a remote island where he creates mutant beings from animals.

H. G. Wells examines the origins of the Earth, and the development of life upon the planet, as it was understood in his era, and then explores the history of human civilization from its earliest beginnings, through the various empires of world history, up to the aftermath of the First World War, and the League of Nations.

Los primeros hombres en la luna es una novela de romance científico de 1901 escrita por el británico H. G. Wells. Relata el viaje a la Luna por parte de los dos protagonistas principales: el empobrecido empresario Mr. Bedford, y el brillante pero excéntrico científico Dr. Cavor, el creador de una sustancia anti-gravitatoria a la que bautiza como cavorita.

Young, impoverished and ambitious, science student Mr Lewisham is locked in a struggle to further himself through academic achievement. But when his former sweetheart, Ethel Henderson, re-enters his life his strictly regimented existence is thrown into chaos by the resurgence of old passion.

Tales of Space and Time is a fantasy and science fiction collection by H.G. Wells, comprising the three short stories "The Crystal Egg", "The Star", and "The Man Who Could Work Miracles", along with the two five-part novellas "A Story of the Stone Age", and the dystopian "A Story of the Days to Come".

"The New Machiavelli" purports to be written in the first person by its protagonist, Richard "Dick" Remington, who has a lifelong passion for "statecraft" and who dreams of recasting the social and political form of the English nation. Remington is a brilliant student at Cambridge, writes several books on political themes, marries an heiress and enters parliament as a Liberal influenced by the socialism of a couple easily recognisable as the Webbs, only to go over to the Conservatives.

H.G. Wells (1866 -1946) - the master of the genre - created his "scientific romances" and set the standard for prophetic and prescient scientific literature that also teemed with social commentary and even glimpses of horror. Enjoy these three classics by the "Father of Science Fiction".

When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the aliens traverse the country in huge three-legged machines, incinerating all in their path with a heat ray and spreading noxious toxic gases, the people of the Earth must come to terms with the prospect of the end of human civilization and the beginning of Martian rule.

H.G. Wells is best known for his science fiction, but some of his greatest works were in other genres. "The Passionate Friends" is a love story. It also is a story about dreams, despair, jealousy, sex, the struggle against social convention, the future of civilization, and much much more. It is written by a father to his son, "not indeed to the child you are now, but to the man you are going to be." He writes it so that one day, perhaps when he is dead, his grown son can read it and rediscover him as a friend and equal.

"Much attention has been paid to the "scientific romance" novels of H. G. Wells, a founder of modern science fiction and one of the genre's greatest writers. In comparison, little attention has been given by critics to his works of fantasy, which in the opinion of many, are just as artistic and worthy of study. This work takes a critical look at Wells' little known fantasy "The Sea Lady": A Tissue of Moonshine, which is "a parable of dark foreboding that unveils the nothingness of utopian dreams" and foreshadows Franz Kafka's dark fables of the totalitarian age.

Un misterioso hombre llamado Griffin llega a una pequeña posada un frío y tormentoso día. Lleva un abrigo largo y guantes, y su cara está completamente cubierta en vendas. Los dueños de la posada no preguntan mucho al misterioso patrón, y él se esconde en su cuarto, experimentando con extraños aparatos científicos y químicos, solo saliendo de su habitación cuando ya es de noche. El pueblo va volviéndose más curioso y desconfiado del extraño personaje, y pronto descubrirán su raro secreto.

One would think that after the momentous events of 1969 H.G Wells’ science fiction adventure The First Men in the Moon would have lost any fascination for the modern listener. Yet, of course, Wells is never concerned merely with the mechanics of science fiction. It is surely the human reaction to these events that grips us and causes us to return again and again to this story.

The Time Machine by HG Wells is about an English scientist who entertains guests for dinner every week. One day, he tells them that time is a navigable fourth dimension, displaying a little model of a time machine. At dinner the following week, he entertains the guests with a remarkable tale. Having moved far into the future, he encounters the lovely garden world of the childlike Eloi and the brutal Morlocks who live underground.