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Per al protagonista d’aquesta història, la Porta del Mur és autèntica, i permet, a través d’un món tan real i tan veritable com el maó i la fusta, d'accedir a una realitat immortal. L’aire, allà, hi resulta estranyament estimulant, la joventut hi és present sempre, la bellesa es fa visible pertot i l’alegria hi regna. ¿Existeix, realment, aquest jardí encantat capaç de plantar cara a la tediosa existència diària?

Mr. Barnstaple is an average man living in English in the early 1900s. He is a journalist and after facing a stressful time at his newspaper decides to take a vacation. But his vacation goes from ordinary to extraordinary in an instant when his vehicle is transported to an alternate world, one called Utopia.

Earth was being watched from afar...by creatures far greater than man...and which coveted what man possessed. The War of the Worlds is invasion literature at its finest. H.G. Wells' popular classic has never been out of print, and is presented here in a stunning new, modern edition. Bonnem's insightful narration runs the gamut of emotions, simultaneously communicating both the horror of events and the innate humanity of this timeless tale.

"This is a history and not a glorification of Mr. Polly, and I tell of things as they were with him.” So writes H.G Wells toward the end of his story of Mr. Polly, and indeed, the narrator’s voice throughout the book leaves us altogether ambivalent about his protagonist. The diminutive Everyman of the story is neither fully hero nor villain.

¿Hacia dónde irá la humanidad, miles de años en el futuro? ¿Evolucionaremos a seres avanzados, de inteligencia y sociedades superiores? ¿Volveremos a la edad de piedra, perdiendo el conocimiento de nuestros errores acumulados durante los años? Un científico victoriano buscará la respuesta a esta incógnita con su increíble máquina. La Máquina del Tiempo es una de las primeras novelas en popularizar el concepto del viaje temporal, y ha sido adaptada a varias películas y series del mismo nombre, entre ellas el éxito de taquilla de 2002, protagonizada por Guy Pierce.

Containing some of the most famous and influential science fiction works of the 19th and 20th centuries, this brilliant collection unveils four incredible sci-fi books that have defined and shaped the genre for generations. Drawing on the timeless works of Mary Shelly, H. G. Wells and Robert Louis Stevenson, this collection will take you on a journey into strange and sometimes eerie worlds of alien invasions, monsters, and outlandish concepts.

Etwa im Jahre 4000, während eines Ausflugs mit seinen Freunden, erleidet "Sarnac" einen Ohnmachtsanfall. Als er wieder zu Bewusstsein kommt, verfügt er über die Erinnerungen einer zweiten Existenz, dem Leben des Harry Mortimer Smith. Er berichtet seinen verdutzten Freunden vom barbarischen, unzivilisierten, grotesken Leben der Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts und überzeugt mit fortschreitender Erzählzeit die faszinierten Zuhörer von der Authentizität seines anscheinend empirischen Erfahrungsberichts.

"Ann Veronica" is a New Woman novel by H. G. Wells published in 1909. "Ann Veronica" describes the rebellion of Ann Veronica Stanley, "a young lady of nearly two-and-twenty", against her middle-class father's stern patriarchal rule. The novel dramatizes the contemporary problem of the New Woman. It is set in Victorian era London and environs, except for an Alpine excursion. Ann Veronica offers vignettes of the women's suffrage movement in Great Britain and features a chapter inspired by the 1908 attempt of suffragettes to storm Parliament.

Uno scienziato inglese riesce a mettere a punto un procedimento che rende invisibile qualsiasi oggetto e decide di sperimentare su di sé la sua fantastica scoperta. L'esperimento riesce perfettamente, ma lo scienziato scopre ben presto che essere invisibili comporta tutta una serie di spiacevoli effetti collaterali che non aveva previsto. Sempre in bilico tra il tragico e il grottesco, tra un delirio di onnipotenza ed una impotente assurdità, il personaggio uscito dalla penna di Wells diventa una sorta di "anti-super-eroe".

A version of H.G. Wells' chilling tale of alien invasion that every child can enjoy. It begins as the sky lights up with bright cylinders from Mars that look like falling stars - and continues as the Martians emerge from their vessels with machines of fire and deadly smoke.

Certain Personal Matters is a selection by the author from among his vast output of humorous and insightful short essays and ephemeral pieces written during the 1890s. Many are whimsical and domestic, adopting the persona of an aspiring young writer, living in modest gentility with wife Euphemia. Others explore scientific themes that Wells would later develop as one of the acknowledged fathers of the science fiction genre.

In 1896, H.G Wells was stimulated to compose this dystopian fantasy about an obsessed scientist and his efforts to artificially accelerate the intellectual development of animals using bizarre medical procedures involving vivisection. Wells described the book as "an exercise in youthful blasphemy."

The Time Machine is a science-fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 and written as a frame narrative. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle or device to travel purposely and selectively forward or backward through time. The term time machine, coined by Wells, is now almost universally used to refer to such a vehicle or device.

Britain won the moon race! Decades before Neal Armstrong took his "giant leap for mankind", two intrepid adventurers from Lympne, England, journeyed there using not a rocket, but an antigravity coating. Mr. Bedford, who narrates the tale, tells of how he fell in with eccentric inventor Mr. Cavor, grew to believe in his researches, helped him build a sphere for traveling in space, and then partnered with him in an expedition to the moon. What they found was fantastic!

This extensive collection features stories of comedy, horror, monsters, strange worlds, guilt, enmity, whimsy, and avarice in some of the best of H. G. Wells' short fiction.

1894. Des astronomes sont témoins d'étranges activités à la surface de Mars, comme des éclairs ou des explosions de gaz incandescent. L'étonnant phénomène se répète pendant les dix nuits suivantes puis cesse. Des météores venant de la planète rouge se dirigent bientôt vers la Terre. Le premier s'écrase en Angleterre, dans le Surrey : il s'agit d'un objet ayant la forme d'un cylindre de vingt-cinq à trente mètres.

From the moment a stranger shows up at a pub in the little village of Iping, the locals are aware something is afoot. He is like no other guest they've ever encountered, and theories as to the reasons for his strange head-to-toe covering are fuel for the gossip factory. Little do any of them realize the truth of the situation and the consequences that will befall their quiet part of England at the hands of the Invisible Man.

Written in 1924, The Dream tells the story of a man from a utopian future who dreams the entire life of an Englishman from birth to his untimely death. Weaving the lives of Sarnac, a biologist from the year AD 4000, and Harry, a man whose life was ended too soon, Wells creates a mystical connection between two very different time periods. This classic science-fiction novel with a splash of romance has captivated audiences for generations.

The Wonderful Visit tells the story of an angel who finds himself unexpectedly marooned on Earth. Wells used John Ruskin's remark that an angel appearing on earth in Victorian England would be shot on sight as the inspiration for this tale of a celestial being who is completely out of place in human society. Ironically, the angel's first confidant and protector is a clergyman, who never recovers from the eventual and inevitable disappearance of the angel. Wells dwells in detail on the contrast between the idealism of the celestial visitor and the discourtesy of his hosts.

The novel begins with humans watching the skies closely, fascinated with the worlds beyond Earth’s atmosphere. As astronomers and scientists hone in on some strange occurrences on Mars, their observations soon become frightening - humans are not the only intelligent beings, and those other beings are also curious about humans. Alien spacecraft starts crashing into England and as Martians emerge from the ships, they begin terrorizing the Earth and bringing destruction with every step.