Selected Stories of H. G. Wells (Modern Library Classics) by

ISBN: 0812970756

Author: Wells, H. G.

Condition: new

Ursula K. Le Guins selection of twenty-six stories showcases H. G. Wellss genius and reintroduces readers to his singular talent for making the unbelievable seem utterly plausible.He envisioned a sky filled with airplanes before Orville Wright ever left the ground. He described the spectacle of space travel decades before men set foot on the moon. H. G. Wells was a visionary, a man of science with an enduring literary touch, and his originality and inventiveness are fully on display in this essential collection.Wells imagined both dark and bright futures because his creed allowed both while promising neither, and because the eighty years of his life were years of immense intellectual and technological accomplishment and appalling violence and destruction.-Ursula K. Le Guin, from the introductionEverything one imagines in the way of genius and fun.-Rebecca WestIncluding these stories:A Slip Under the MicroscopeThe Remarkable Case of Davidsons EyesThe Plattner StoryUnder the KnifeThe Crystal EggThe New AcceleratorThe Stolen BodyThe Argonauts of the AirIn the AbyssThe StarThe Land IroncladsA Dream of ArmageddonThe Lord of the DynamosThe Valley of SpidersThe Story of the Late Mr. ElveshamThe Man Who Could Work MiraclesThe Magic ShopMr. Skelmersdale in FairylandThe Door in the WallThe Presence by the FireA Vision of JudgmentThe Story of the Last TrumpThe Wild Asses of the DevilAnswer to PrayerThe Queer Story of Brownlows NewspaperThe Country of the Blind