H. G. Wells: War of the Worlds

The collection of works by the English writer HG Wells includes his best science fiction novels, which have become a kind of hallmark of the author and a classic of "warning literature": "The Time Machine" (1895) - a gloomy story about the life of mankind of the sample 802701, "The Island of Dr. Moreau "(1896) and" The Invisible Man "(1897) - stories about amazing experiments performed by brilliant and mad scientists who boldly violate the laws of nature, legal prohibitions and moral norms, and" War of the Worlds "(1897) - one of the first books on the topic of alien aggression, popular in later literature and cinema, threatening the existence of mankind. “When the Sleeper Wakes” (1898-1899)” and “The First Men in the Moon” (1901) are examples of Wells’ social fiction, in which various negative models of social organization are played out (whether it be a lunar hierarchical “anthill” society ruled by the Great Lunar, or the totalitarian regime established by the White Council on Earth at the end of the 21st century) and the possibility of changing them.

Author: Herbert Wells

Translation: Mikhail Zenkevich

Pages: 864 (offset). Hard cover

Dimensions: 140x210 mm

Series: Foreign Literature. big books