L'Homme invisible / L'Empire des fourmis

Alla fine del 1800, da più parti del mondo giungono bollettini circa strani disturbi atmosferici e nei dintorni di Londra si rinvengono misteriosi cilindri precipitati dal cielo. La curiosità lascia il posto al terrore quando si diffonde la sconcertante rivelazione: la Terra è stata invasa dai marziani. Gli uomini, il cui intelletto è tragicamente inferiore a quello degli alieni, saranno costretti a condividere il destino delle « bestie che periscono ». La guerra dei mondi, pubblicato la prima volta nel 1897 e qui riproposto nella nuova traduzione di Vincenzo Latronico, è il romanzo più famoso di H. G. Wells. Una storia così vivida e realistica che, quando l'adattamento di Howard Koch - contenuto in questo volume - fu trasmesso dalla CBS nel 1938 per la regia e la voce del giovanissimo Orson Welles, un'ondata di panico travolse migliaia di americani convinti che un'invasione aliena fosse realmente in corso. H. G. Wells, dotato di una straordinaria forza narrativa, è l'artefice di una delle prime opere in cui la scienza incontra la fantasia, plasmando in modo irreversibile l'immaginario collettivo e, forse, la stessa idea di futuro.

La guerra dei mondi

C'est en hiver que l'étranger s'est installé à l'auberge du village d'Iping. Ses bandages, qui lui enveloppent entièrement la tête, sauf le nez, d'un rouge vif, lui donnent un aspect étrange, assez terrifiant, et les langues vont bon train.On l'aurait peut-être laissé en paix s'il n'avait pas retardé le paiement de sa note et s'il n'y avait pas eu un vol mystérieux au presbytère. Mandat est donné de l'arrêter, mais comment se saisir d'un personnage qui disparaît à mesure qu'il se dépouille de ses vêtements? Quant à l'étranger, obligé d'être nu pour échapper aux poursuites, il souffre cruellement du froid et de la faim.Ainsi débute l'aventure du savant qui a découvert la formule de l'invisibilité, un des romans les plus célèbres de Herbert George Wells et, par son invention et son humour, un des chefs d’œuvre de la littérature fantastique.

L'Homme Invisible

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a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year a.d. 802,701, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment, and peace.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."

Les chefs-d'oeuvres: guerre des mondes, la / la machine a explorer le temps / l'île du docteur moreau

La Guerre des Mondes By H. G. Wells, Editorial Oneness (Edited by)

La Guerre Des Mondes

The Sea-Lady concerns a mermaid who comes to shore, ostensibly with the intention of joining genteel society but who really desires to seduce Chatteris, a man she once encountered near Tonga.

The Sea-Lady

En 6 ans et 5 romans, H. G. Wells inventa la science-fiction en abordant ses archétypes (le voyage temporel, les savants fous, les extraterrestres, l'exploration spatiale). Il fut le premier à exploiter ces thèmes qui sont depuis devenus des standards de la littérature d'imagination. Avec la pièce radiophonique d'Orson Welles qui terrorisa les Etats-Unis en 1938.

Les chefs d'oeuvre de H.G. Wells

Miss Waters

Ein ungenannter Protagonist und Erzähler beschließt, die Nacht in einem angeblich gespenstischen Raum zu verbringen, der im lothringischen Schloss knallrot gefärbt ist. Er beabsichtigt, die Legenden, die ihn umgeben, zu widerlegen. Trotz der vagen Warnungen der drei gebrechlichen Aufseher, die im Schloss wohnen, steigt der Erzähler in das "Rote Zimmer" auf, um die Nachtwache zu beginnen und eine erstauniiche Geschichte nimmt Fahrt auf ...

Diese Geschichte des populären Autors H. G. Wells, der in Deutschland vor allem für seine Science-Fiction-Bücher bekannt ist, und drei weitere spannende Geschichten von bekannten Autoren finden sich im vorliegenden Band 1 der Reihe 'Erstaunliche Geschichten'.

Hier liegt nun die zweite überarbeitete und verbesserte Auflage vor.

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