The opening chapter does not concern itself with Love-indeed that antagonist does not certainly appear until the third-and Mr. Lewisham is seen at his studies. It was ten years ago, and in those days he was assistant master in the Whortley Proprietary School, Whortley, Sussex, and his wages were forty pounds a year, out of which he had to afford fifteen shillings a week during term time to lodge with Mrs. Munday, at the little shop in the West Street. He was called "Mr." to distinguish him from the bigger boys, whose duty it was to learn, and it was a matter of stringent regulation that he should be addressed as "Sir."

Love and Mr. Lewisham

»Der Krieg der Welten« von H. G. Wells ist ein spannend geschriebener Klassiker der Science Fiction. Eine hoch entwickelte Marszivilisation greift die Erde an. Schnell brechen die Marsianer den menschlichen Widerstand mit ihren modernen Waffen. Es stellt sich heraus, dass sie den Menschen technologisch weit überlegen sind. Immer mehr Waffen und Material schaffen sie vom Mars heran, um die Invasion zum Erfolg zu führen. Ihr Siegeszug scheint unaufhaltsam. Doch überraschend kommt ihre verwundbare Stelle zum Vorschein. Das Blatt scheint sich zu wenden.

Die Geschichte wird von einem Ich-Erzähler geschildert, der die Ereignisse mit viel Glück überlebt hat. Dadurch gewinnt die Schilderung besondere Spannung und Unmittelbarkeit.

H. G. Wells spielt in dem 1898 erschienenen Roman »Der Krieg der Welten« auf die Expansionspolitik des British Empire an. Wells zeigt, wie den Eingeborenen einer Kolonie zumute ist, wenn die Briten mit ihren modernen Waffen die Herrschaft übernehmen. 

Die Invasion aus dem All wurde zum Vorbild für zahlreiche andere Romane, Filme und Hörspiele. »Der Krieg der Welten« begründete H. G. Wells Weltruhm als Science Fiction Autor.

Der Krieg der Welten - Vollständige deutsche Ausgabe

Das lange Experimentieren zahlt sich für den Wissenschaftler Griffin aus: Er entwickelt eine Substanz, die unsichtbar macht. Machtphantasien steigen in ihm auf und trüben seinen Geist. Er kann kaum noch klar denken. Der Unsichtbare geht in das südenglische Dorf Iping, um die Macht seiner Erfindung zu demonstrieren. Doch er stößt auf Schwierigkeiten. Der Ärger darüber setzt eine ungeheure Zerstörungswut in ihm frei.

H. G. Wells spielt in »Der Unsichtbare« mit den faszinierenden Möglichkeiten der Naturwissenschaft und verweist zugleich auf die Gefahren, wenn das Wissen in die falschen Hände gerät. 

Der Bestseller-Autor Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) war einer der Begründer des modernen Science Fiction-Romans. Mit seinen wissenschaftlich fundierten Romanen wurde er einer der erfolgreichsten englischen Schriftsteller.

Der Unsichtbare - Vollständige Ausgabe

The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand. He was wrapped up from head to foot, and the brim of his soft felt hat hid every inch of his face but the shiny tip of his nose; the snow had piled itself against his shoulders and chest, and added a white crest to the burden he carried. He staggered into the "Coach and Horses" more dead than alive, and flung his portmanteau down. "A fire, " he cried, "in the name of human charity! A room and a fire!" He stamped and shook the snow from off himself in the bar, and followed Mrs. Hall into her guest parlour to strike his bargain. And with that much introduction, that and a couple of sovereigns flung upon the table, he took up his quarters in the inn.

The Invisible Man

I SAW a gray-haired man, a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

He seemed to be in a room in a tower, very high, so that through the tall window on his left one perceived only distances, a remote horizon of sea, a headland and that vague haze and glitter in the sunset that many miles away marks a city. All the appointments of this room were orderly and beautiful, and in some subtle quality, in this small difference and that, new to me and strange. They were in no fashion I could name, and the simple costume the man wore suggested neither period nor country. It might, I thought, be the Happy Future, or Utopia, or the Land of Simple Dreams; an errant mote of memory, Henry James's phrase and story of "The Great Good Place, " twinkled across my mind, and passed and left no light.

The man I saw wrote with a thing like a fountain pen, a modern touch that prohibited any historical retrospection, and as he finished each sheet, writing in an easy flowing hand, he added it to a growing pile upon a graceful little table under the window. His last done sheets lay loose, partly covering others that were clipped together into fascicles.

Clearly he was unaware of my presence, and I stood waiting until his pen should come to a pause. Old as he certainly was he wrote with a steady hand.

In the Days of the Comet

The maid was a young woman of great natural calmness; she was accustomed to let in visitors who had this air of being annoyed and finding one umbrella too numerous for them. It mattered nothing to her that the gentleman was asking for Dr. Martineau as if he was asking for something with an unpleasant taste. Almost imperceptibly she relieved him of his umbrella and juggled his hat and coat on to a massive mahogany stand. "What name, Sir?" she asked, holding open the door of the consulting room.

"Hardy, " said the gentleman, and then yielding it reluctantly with its distasteful three-year-old honour, "Sir Richmond Hardy."

The Secret Places of the Heart

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.

 "In a moment I was clutched by several hands, and there was no mistaking that they were trying to haul me back .

The Time Machine

Come fly with Bert Smallways, a commoner with a comic, tragic, star-crossed, and high-flying fate, into a future that never was. Long out of print! A visionary novel by the author of The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine This classic, full-length novel from H. G. Wells imagines a world of progress stricken by brutal conflict in the sky-written before the actual invention of airplanes. Bert Smallways is a small man in a small town with big dreams. His most fantastic dream-flying-seems improbable. Prototype airplane after airplane crashes and burns. Until one doesn't. Bert's desire to fly beckons him and combines with implacable fate to sweep him up in a fantastic, dramatic adventure in which he, a pawn of fortune at the center of it all, travels to far lands and distant battles envisioned in The War in the Air. His adventures will have great consequence for the entire world. But will this star-crossed young man find what he really desires?

The War in the Air

A Victorian scientist develops a time machine and travels to the year 802,171 AD. There he finds the meek, child-like Eloi who live in fear of the underground-dwelling Morlocks. When his time machine goes missing, the Traveller faces a fight to enter the Morlocks' domain and return to his own time.
THE TIME MACHINE remains one of the cornerstones of science-fiction literature and has proved hugely influential.

Love and Mr. Lewisham

Résumé

Plus de livres de H. G. Wells

Critiques

Ce livre n'a pas encore de critiques