Popular Classics Science Fiction Collection - 25 Books In 1 Package! Includes Works Such as Time Machine, War of the Worlds, Frankenstein, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and MORE! (Optimized for Nook)

by H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, Andre Norton, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Harry Harrison

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Enjoy 25 of the best classic Science Fiction books for the price of one!

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The 25 stories included within this Science Fiction Collection include:

A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Beyond Lies the Wub by Philip K. Dick
Deathworld by Harry Harrison
Flatland a romance of many dimensions (Illustrated) by Edwin Abbott Abbott
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon by Jules Verne
Key Out of Time by Andre Norton
Plague Ship by Andre Norton
Planet of the Damned by Harry Harrison
Star Born by Andre Norton
The Big Trip Up Yonder by Kurt Vonnegut
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Misplaced Battleship by Harry Harrison
The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
The Skull by Philip K. Dick
The Skylark of Space by Lee Hawkins Garby and E. E. Smith
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
The Time Traders by Andre Norton
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Triplanetary by E. E. Smith
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012314987
Publisher:	Classic Century Works
Publication date:	03/25/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Social philosopher, utopian, novelist, and "father" of science fiction and science fantasy, Herbert George Wells was born on September 21, 1866, in Bromley, Kent. His father was a poor businessman, and young Bertie's mother had to work as a lady's maid. Living "below stairs" with his mother at an estate called Uppark, Bertie would sneak into the grand library to read Plato, Swift, and Voltaire, authors who deeply influenced his later works. He shoed literary and artistic talent in his early stories and paintings, but the family had limited means, and when he was fourteen years old, Bertie was sent as an apprentice to a dealer in cloth and dry goods, work he disliked.

He held jobs in other trades before winning a scholarship to study biology at the Normal School of Science in London. The eminent biologist T. H. Huxley, a friend and proponent of Darwin, was his teacher; about him Wells later said, "I believed then he was the greatest man I was ever likely to meet." Under Huxley's influence, Wells learned the science that would inspire many of his creative works and cultivated the skepticism about the likelihood of human progress that would infuse his writing.

Teaching, textbook writing, and journalism occupied Wells until 1895, when he made his literary debut with the now-legendary novel The Time Machine, which was followed before the end of the century by The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds, books that established him as a major writer. Fiercely critical of Victorian mores, he published voluminously, in fiction and nonfiction, on the subject of politics and social philosophy. Biological evolution does not ensure moral progress, as Wells would repeat throughout his life, during which he witnessed two world wars and the debasement of science for military and political ends.

In addition to social commentary presented in the guise of science fiction, Wells authored comic novels like Love and Mrs. Lewisham, Kipps, and The History of Mister Polly that are Dickensian in their scope and feeling, and a feminist novel, Ann Veronica. He wrote specific social commentary in The New Machiavelli, an attack on the socialist Fabian Society, which he had joined and then rejected, and literary parody (of Henry James) in Boon. He wrote textbooks of biology, and his massive The Outline of History was a major international bestseller.

By the time Wells reached middle age, he was admired around the world, and he used his fame to promote his utopian vision, warning that the future promised "Knowledge or extinction." He met with such preeminent political figures as Lenin, Roosevelt, and Stalin, and continued to publish, travel, and educate during his final years. Herbert George Wells died in London on August 13, 1946.

Author biography from the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of The War of the Worlds.

Date of Birth:

September 21, 1866

Date of Death:

August 13, 1946

Place of Birth:

Bromley, Kent, England

Place of Death:

London, England

Education:

Normal School of Science, London, England