THE TIME MACHINE and THE INVISIBLE MAN (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Wells, H. G.; (MacAdam, Alfred, Introduction & Annotation)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1593083254
- ISBN 13
- 9781593083250
- Seller
-
Berkeley, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Synopsis
Herbert George Wells was born in Bromley, Kent, England, on September 21, 1866. His father was a professional cricketer and sometime shopkeeper, his mother a former lady’s maid. Although "Bertie" left school at fourteen to become a draper’s apprentice (a life he detested), he later won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in London, where he studied with the famous Thomas Henry Huxley. He began to sell articles and short stories regularly in 1893. In 1895, his immediately successful novel rescued him from a life of penury on a schoolteacher’s salary. His other "scientific romances"— The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898), The First Men in the Moon (1901), and The War in the Air (1908)—won him distinction as the father of science fiction. Henry James saw in Wells the most gifted writer of the age, but Wells, having coined the phrase "the war that will end war" to describe World War I, became increasingly disillusioned and focused his attention on educating mankind with his bestselling Outline of History (1920) and his later utopian works. Living until 1946, Wells witnessed a world more terrible than any of his imaginative visions, and he bitterly observed: "Reality has taken a leaf from my book and set itself to supercede me."
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012583
- Title
- THE TIME MACHINE and THE INVISIBLE MAN (Barnes & Noble Classics)
- Author
- Wells, H. G.; (MacAdam, Alfred, Introduction & Annotation)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 5th Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1593083254
- ISBN 13
- 9781593083250
- Publisher
- Barnes & Noble
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- Anthology/Science Fiction
Terms of Sale
100 POCKETS
If a book is damaged or lost in shipment, refund of book cost and postage is guaranteed. If a book is physically not as described in our posting, book cost and round-trip postage are refunded on the book�s return.
About the Seller
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...