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Zusatztext “Everything one imagines in the way of genius and fun.” —Rebecca West Informationen zum Autor English author Herbert George Wells wrote more than fifty novels and several short stories. He was born on 21 September 1866, in Bromley, Kent, and was the fourth and last child of Joseph Wells. Wells married his cousin Isabel Mary Wells in 1891. In 1894 the couple got separated, and he fell in love with one of his students, Amy Catherine Robbins, with whom he relocated to Woking, Surrey, in May 1895. Wells' greatest collection of work, which was lamented by younger authors he had influenced, was produced before the First World War. Wells passed away in his residence at 13 Hanover Terrace, which had an overlooked view of Regent's Park, in London on August 13, 1946, at the age of 79 due to unidentified causes. Wells was cremated at Golders Green Crematory, and his ashes were scattered into the English Channel at Old Harry Rocks, which is located in Dorset and approximately 3.5 miles from Swanage. Klappentext Ursula K. Le Guin's selection of twenty-six stories showcases H. G. Wells's genius and reintroduces readers to his singular talent for making the unbelievable seem utterly plausible. He envisioned a sky filled with airplanes before Orville Wright ever left the ground. He described the spectacle of space travel decades before men set foot on the moon. H. G. Wells was a visionary, a man of science with an enduring literary touch, and his originality and inventiveness are fully on display in this essential collection. "Wells imagined both dark and bright futures because his creed allowed both while promising neither, and because the eighty years of his life were years of immense intellectual and technological accomplishment and appalling violence and destruction."-Ursula K. Le Guin, from the introduction "Everything one imagines in the way of genius and fun."-Rebecca West Including these stories: "A Slip Under the Microscope" "The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes" "The Plattner Story" "Under the Knife" "The Crystal Egg" "The New Accelerator" "The Stolen Body" "The Argonauts of the Air" "In the Abyss" "The Star" "The Land Ironclads" "A Dream of Armageddon" "The Lord of the Dynamos" "The Valley of Spiders" "The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham" "The Man Who Could Work Miracles" "The Magic Shop" "Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland" "The Door in the Wall" "The Presence by the Fire" "A Vision of Judgment" "The Story of the Last Trump" "The Wild Asses of the Devil" "Answer to Prayer" "The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper" "The Country of the Blind"Chapter 1 A Slip Under the Microscope Outside the laboratory windows was a watery-grey fog, and within a close warmth and the yellow light of the green-shaded gas lamps that stood two to each table down its narrow length. On each table stood a couple of glass jars containing the mangled vestiges of the crayfish, mussels, frogs, and guineapigs upon which the students had been working, and down the side of the room, facing the windows, were shelves bearing bleached dissections of spirits, surmounted by a row of beautifully executed anatomical drawings in whitewood frames and overhanging a row of cubical lockers. All the doors of the laboratory were panelled with blackboard, and on these were the half-erased diagrams of the previous day's work. The laboratory was empty, save for the demonstrator, who sat near the preparation-room door, and silent, save for a low, continuous murmur, and the clicking of the rocker microtome at which he was working. But scattered about the room were traces of numerous students: hand-bags, polished boxes of instruments, in one place a large drawing covered by newspaper, and in another a prettily bound copy of News from Nowhere, a book oddly at variance with its surround...
