Annotated H.G. Wells – serie
Visar alla böcker i serien Annotated H.G. Wells. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
9 produkter
Time Machine: An Invention
A Critical Text of the 1895 London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices
Av H.G. Wells
Häftad, 2012
388 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Time Machine is one of the most enduring works of the English language. A hundred years after it was first published, the book continues to be studied.The 1895 London first edition is used as a basis for the exhaustive annotations and other critical apparatus of the world's foremost Wellsian …
Island of Doctor Moreau
A Critical Text of the 1896 London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices
Häftad, 2012
429 kr
Lägg i varukorg
H.G. Wells (1866-1946) wrote some of the great classics of speculative fiction in English, including The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), which might be said to be about unholy genetics. The work's biological and sociopolitical ideas are still current (such were the range and depth of Wells' …
Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance
A Critical Text of the 1897 New York First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices
Häftad, 2012
396 kr
Lägg i varukorg
H.G. Wells barely revised The Invisible Man once it was published, adding only an epilogue. But the opening statement of that epilogue--"So ends the strange and evil experiment of the Invisible Man"--has posed challenges to scholars. How to understand it? Does it speak strictly to the scientific …
War of the Worlds
A Critical Text of the 1898 London First Edition, with an Introduction, Illustrations and Appendices
Häftad, 2012
429 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Wells' novel, a "scientific romance," attained perhaps its greatest fame in another form, the infamous realistic 1939 radio broadcast "Invasion from Mars" by the redoubtable Orson Welles. It was also notably made into an early fifties science fiction adventure movie (and there have been other …
When the Sleeper Wakes
A Critical Text of the 1899 New York and London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices
Av H.G. Wells
Häftad, 2012
620 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Critics view When the Sleeper Wakes as a prototype of the anti-utopian novel, a genre developed by Zamyatin, Huxley, and Orwell into nightmare futures associated with the totalitarian age and the moral horrors of fascism and communism. Annotated by the world's leading Wellsian scholar, in Sleeper …
First Men in the Moon
A Critical Text of the 1901 London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices
Av H.G. Wells
Häftad, 2012
420 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The First Men in the Moon is the last in a series of "scientific romances" begun by Wells with The Time Machine. In the opinion of many, it is also the last in a series of pessimistic and anti-utopian novels before Wells took up the tone of an optimistic and utopian social prophet with …
Sea Lady: A Tissue of Moonshine
A Critical Text of the 1902 London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices
Av H.G. Wells
Häftad, 2012
396 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Much attention has been paid to the "scientific romance" novels of H.G. Wells, a founder of modern science fiction and one of the genre's greatest writers. In comparison, little attention has been given by critics to his works of fantasy, which in the opinion of many, are just as artistic and …
Man Who Could Work Miracles
A Critical Text of the 1936 New York First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices
Av H.G. Wells
Häftad, 2012
396 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Man Who Could Work Miracles (without a The) is a 1937 film, ostensibly a comedy, that H.G. Wells scripted late in life for London Film Productions. This work is a literary text of the scenario and dialogue published in advance of the movie's release. Wells himself says it is "a companion piece" to …
Things to Come
A Critical Text of the 1935 London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices
Av H.G. Wells
Häftad, 2012
396 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Things to Come is the 1936 release of London Films, produced from the 1935 "film story" by H.G. Wells, the text of the present work. The book includes more than 100 illustrations, most of them publicity stills that are all the more relevant because Wells, for a script writer, had unusual control …
