The Crystal Egg And Other Stories - Wordsworth Classics

Autor: Wells, H. G.

Editorial: Wordsworth

Lenguaje: Inglés Internacional

ISBN13: 9781840227390

Reseña:  This volume contains a generous selection of the tales of H. G. Wells some of them famous some forgotten. They demonstrate his immense imaginative energy his originality his prophetic genius and his mastery of a range embracing Gothic horror social satire lyrical reverie and Utopian fantasy. Here Wells predicts the use of the tank the aeroplane the parachute and the bathysphere he depicts the arrival of monsters from the deep and envisages the destruction of life on our planet. Nevertheless in social comedy Wells anticipates E. M. Forster. We also see why Wells proved to be a provocation and inspiration not only to numerous science-fiction writers but also to such eminent authors as Vladimir Nabokov Jorge Luis Borges and William Golding. Entertaining disturbing astonishing and thought-provoking these tales constitute a Wellsian cornucopia. Enjoy!