内容简介

作者简介

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.

屯的,现在还看不了.过一段再说

很好的分级阅读，非常喜欢，虽然纸张是再生纸

很好的分级阅读，非常喜欢，虽然纸张是再生纸

暮菖兰是个潇洒的姑娘，我一直这么觉得，作为唯一活下来的人她又是最痛苦的一个，穿机后再去看第一版宣传CG才明白那三杯酒的含义，滴在酒中的泪，祭奠一份永远逝去的欢笑经历。也许大家并不喜欢她为了钱不惜出卖情报的作为，但看到暮霭村剧情我觉得我又可以理解，作为仙剑的主角，每一个人身上总是背负了些什么，好在他们总是有情有义的。

很好的分级阅读，非常喜欢，虽然纸张是再生纸

很好很实用，哈哈哈哈哈

原来以为是有图片的，买来才发现是一本薄薄的小说，留着孩子以后看。

外传也好，前传也罢，给我感觉都是在尽量地起到一个衔接主线故事的作用，《仙剑奇侠传五前传》（以下简称五前）便是为了承接一代二代和五代剧情而诞生的，可以说，五前的出现让五代不再给我感觉像一个无中生有硬编出来的一段剧情。