ISBN: 9789380005782    Publisher: MAPLE PRESS Pvt. Ltd. Year of publishing: 2016     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 200        

Immensely popular during his lifetime H.G. Wells along with Jules Verne is credited with inventing science fiction.This volume offers four of Wells's best-loved and most critically acclaimed "scientific romances. In each the author grounds his fantastical imagination in scientific fact and conjecture while lacing his narrative with vibrant action not merely to tell a "ripping yarn " but to offer a biting critique on the world around him. The Time Machine H.G. Wells's first novel is a tale of Darwinian evolution Taken to its extreme. The Invisible Man mixes chilling terror suspense and acute psychological understanding into a tale of an equally adventurous scientist who discovers the formula for invisibility-a secret that drives him mad. The War of the Worlds is a novel of interplanetary conflict in anticipation of war in Europe and predicted the technological savagery of 20th -century warfare gripping readers with its notion that invasion can happen anytime anywhere--even in our own backyard. The First Men in the Moon tells the story of a journey to the moon of two protagonists Mr. Bedford a British businessman and Dr. Cavor a brilliant but eccentric scientist and there discovery of life on the moon. There capture by "Selenites" the inhabitants of the moon there escape and Cavor recapture and his further communication.
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