Name: The War of the Worlds
ISBN: 9780141026008

作者: H. G. Wells
出版社: Penguin Classics
出版年: 2006-7-6
页数: 192
定价: GBP 7.99
装帧: Paperback
丛书: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780141026008

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The 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 bu...

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The War of the Worlds的创作者 · · · · · ·

赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯作者

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Herbert George Wells was born to a working class family in Kent, England. Young Wells received a spotty education, interrupted by several illnesses and family difficulties, and became a draper's apprentice as a teenager. The headmaster of Midhurst Grammar School, where he had spent a year, arranged for him to return as an "usher," or student teacher. Wells earned a government scholarship in 1884, to study biology under Thomas Henry Huxley at the Normal School of Science. Wells earned his bachelor of science and doctor of science degrees at the University of London. After marrying his cousin, Isabel, Wells began to supplement his teaching salary with short stories and freelance articles, then books, including The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898).

Wells created a mild scandal when he divorced his cousin to marry one of his best students, Amy Catherine Robbins. Although his second marriage was lasting and produced two sons, Wells was an unabashed advocate of free (as opposed to "indiscriminate") love. He continued to openly have extra-marital liaisons, most famously with Margaret Sanger, and a ten-year relationship with the author Rebecca West, who had one of his two out-of-wedlock children. A one-time member of the Fabian Society, Wells sought active change. His 100 books included many novels, as well as nonfiction, such as A Modern Utopia (1905), The Outline of History (1920), A Short History of the World (1922), The Shape of Things to Come (1933), and The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind (1932). One of his booklets was Crux Ansata, An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church. Although Wells toyed briefly with the idea of a "divine will" in his book, God the Invisible King (1917), it was a temporary aberration. Wells used his international fame to promote his favorite causes, including the prevention of war, and was received by government officials around the world. He is best-remembered as an early writer of science fiction and futurism.

He was also an outspoken socialist. Wells and Jules Verne are each sometimes referred to as "The Fathers of Science Fiction". D. 1946.

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目前我们所知最早被译成中文的威尔斯的作品不是科幻小说，而是1921年他采访华盛顿会议后撰写的有关中国问题的长篇报道，译者是周恩来 (查看原文)

machlie 1赞 2012-03-19 23:29:40

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和威尔斯的创作生涯同意辉煌的是他的情史。他的情人中包括女作家丽贝卡韦斯特和曾做过马克西姆高尔基的情人的莫拉包伯格。 (查看原文)

machlie 1赞 2012-03-19 23:29:40

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丛书信息 · · · · · ·

　　Penguin Classics(共1223册)，这套丛书还有《Meditations》《Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892-1895》《The Sea, the Sea》《Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark and Memoirs of the Author》《Guide to Greece, Vol. 1》等。

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花落飞满楼 2005-09-16 10:15:51 南海出版公司2005版

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前几天看了这本小说，听说，电影正是根据这部小说改编的。小说讲述的是十九世纪末的英国，在一夕之间沦为火星人屠杀地狱的故事。小说伊始，主人公便透过天文望远镜观测到了火星的异常活动。当然，一并观测到这一现象的，还有诸多天文爱好者以及专家。但是，由于对宇宙认识的... (展开)

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文 / 顾忆青 [1] 沃金（Woking）是伦敦以西三十多公里外一座鲜有人问津的小镇，但对于许多科幻迷们而言，这里足可谓精神地标。1895年，正是在这里，“科幻之父”赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯（H. G. Wells）完成他最引人瞩目的代表作《时间机器》(The Time Machine)，并着手构思这... (展开)

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