Read by Robert BathurstA friend of H.G. Wells is on the verge of making a scientific breakthrough which promises to revolutionise human life – so the two friends decide to road-test the new drug – with exciting but dangerous consequences.

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"Die Insel des Dr. Moreau", englischer Originaltitel "The Island of Dr. Moreau", ist ein 1896 erschienener phantastischer Roman des englischen Schriftstellers H. G. Wells. Er enthält Elemente der Science Fiction-, der Horror- und der Abenteuerliteratur.

Die Insel des Dr. Moreau

Londres, à l’extrême fin du XIXe siècle. Dans la maison d’un savant, un groupe d’amis écoute celui qui prétend être le premier voyageur du temps narrer ses aventures. Le voyageur du temps commence son récit en décrivant le monde de l’an 802 701. La Terre est habitée par les Éloïs, descendants des hommes. Androgynes, simplets et doux, ils passent leur temps à jouer tels des enfants et à manger des fruits dans le grand jardin qu’est devenue la Terre. À la surface de celle-ci, ne subsiste plus aucune mauvaise herbe, ni aucune autre espèce animale. Le monde semble être devenu un paradis. Seulement l’explorateur du temps ne tarde pas à se rendre compte que cette apparente harmonie cache un terrible secret...

La Machine à explorer le temps

Dans les dernières années du XIXe siècle, les Martiens décident de conquérir la terre. Bien que mortels comme les humains, les envahisseurs ont une intelligence supérieure à eux. Ils sont équipés de tripodes qui ont une puissance dévastatrice incroyable. La bataille est commencée, notre planète et ses habitants vont subir, massacres et destructions. Un homme va assister à cette guerre en essayant de survivre au milieu du chaos. C’est son histoire que vous allez vivre en lisant La Guerre des Mondes, accrochez-vous à votre fauteuil et surveillez le ciel, car c’est peut-être pour demain !!!

La Guerre Des Mondes

Le Pays des aveugles et autres récits d'anticipation

Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettable movies, this early work of H. G. Wells was greeted in 1896 by howls of protest from reviewers, who found it horrifying and blasphemous. They wanted to know more about the wondrous possibilities of science shown in his first book, The Time Machine, not its potential for misuse and terror. 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’s prediction of the ethical issues raised by producing “smarter” human beings or bringing back extinct species. These levels of interpretation add a richness to Prendick’s adventures on Dr. Moreau’s island of lost souls without distracting from what is still a rip-roaring good read.

L'Île du Docteur Moreau

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.Inspiring films, radio dramas, comic-book adaptations, television series and sequels,The War of the Worlds is a prototypical work of science fiction which has influenced every alien story that has come since, and is unsurpassed in its ability to thrill, well over a century since it was first published.

La guerre des mondes

The Martians Are Coming!  Together in one volume for the first time-H. G. Wells's seminal science fiction classic The War of the Worlds, with the contemporaneous, unauthorized, but extremely popular sequel Edison's Conquest of Mars, as well as Wells's own, much later conceptual sequel, Star Begotten. How often do you watch the sky at night? Ever see bright streaks of light exploding from the red planet? Get ready for adventurous reading as you embark on a journey to find out just how these alien invasions play out!  In The War of the Worlds, how will woefully unprepared Earthlings respond to towering three-legged "fighting machines" armed with heat-rays and chemical weapons that far exceed the capabilities of the19th Century English military? In Edison's Conquest of Mars, Earth's leaders fear that the Martians will return to invade once more. U. S. President William McKinley, Queen Victoria, Kaiser Wilhelm II and Emperor Mutsuhito unite to plan an attack on Mars. Led by American inventor Thomas Edison, a group of scientists develop new technologies based on what earlier Martian visitors left behind. They design and build a fleet of space ships for the pre-emptive move. What will happen when the two opposing forces meet?  The protagonist of Star Begotten, Joseph Davis, is an author of popular histories, who becomes suspicious that he and his family have been exposed to a Martian influence of another sort and are in the process of being changed. What might that influence be?  Three classics of Martian invasion in one volume

The Complete War of the Worlds

The Time MachineWhen a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year a.d. 802,701, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment, and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realizes that these beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture--now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. They have every reason to be afraid: in deep tunnels beneath their paradise lurks another race descended from humanity--the sinister Morlocks. And when the scientist's time machine vanishes, it becomes clear he must search these tunnels if he is ever to return to his own era.The War of the WorldsThe night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first, naive locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag only to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge. Soon the whole of human civilisation is under threat, as powerful Martians build gigantic killing machines, destroy all in their path with black gas and burning rays, and feast on the warm blood of trapped, still-living human prey. The forces of the Earth, however, may prove harder to beat than they at first appear.The Island of Dr MoreauA shipwreck in the South Seas, a palm-tree paradise where a mad doctor conducts vile experiments, animals that become human and then "beastly" in ways they never were before -- it's the stuff of high adventure. It's also a parable about Darwinian theory, a social satire in the vein of Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels), and a bloody tale of horror.As H. G. Wells himself wrote about this story, "The Island of Dr. Moreau is an exercise in youthful blasphemy. Now and then, though I rarely admit it, the universe projects itself towards me in a hideous grimace. It grimaced that time, and I did my best to express my vision of the aimless torture in creation."

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