Book description
'And so, in a trice, he came into the garden that has haunted all
his life.'
H. G. Wells was a pioneer of science fiction, its first and greatest
influence. Here his boundless invention creates three very stories: a
poignant parable of a mysterious door, a thrilling account of
be-tentacled sea creatures and the darkly comic chronicle of an
academic rivalry taken too far . . .
This book includes The Door in the Wall, The Sea
Raiders and The Moth.
H. G. Wells (1866 -1946) was a professional writer and journalist,
who published more than a hundred books, including novels, histories,
essays and programmes for world regeneration. Wells's prophetic
imagination was first displayed in pioneering works of science fiction,
but later he became an apostle of socialism, science and progress. His
controversial views on sexual equality and the shape of a truly
developed nation remain directly relevant to our world today. He was, in
Bertrand Russell's words, 'an important liberator of thought and
action'.
