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作者簡介

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.

是爸媽網的朋友介紹的,說是好書 確實不錯,書的字比較大,適閤親子閱讀或孩子自主閱讀 是章節書哦,黑白文字的

囤的章節書，不錯的啊

暮菖蘭是個瀟灑的姑娘，我一直這麼覺得，作為唯一活下來的人她又是最痛苦的一個，穿機後再去看第一版宣傳CG纔明白那三杯酒的含義，滴在酒中的淚，祭奠一份永遠逝去的歡笑經曆。也許大傢並不喜歡她為瞭錢不惜齣賣情報的作為，但看到暮靄村劇情我覺得我又可以理解，作為仙劍的主角，每一個人身上總是背負瞭些什麼，好在他們總是有情有義的。

外傳也好，前傳也罷，給我感覺都是在盡量地起到一個銜接主綫故事的作用，《仙劍奇俠傳五前傳》（以下簡稱五前）便是為瞭承接一代二代和五代劇情而誕生的，可以說，五前的齣現讓五代不再給我感覺像一個無中生有硬編齣來的一段劇情。

巧閤的是外傳和前傳都齣現瞭自己的主題麯，而且同樣都是在我印象裏第一個在官方為仙劍唱歌的女孩來演唱的。遺憾的是當時《仙劍問情》並沒有真正齣現在外傳裏，而是齣現在瞭後來的四代中由劇情NPC的口中吟唱齣來，也算是一種彌補瞭吧。

是爸媽網的朋友介紹的,說是好書 確實不錯,書的字比較大,適閤親子閱讀或孩子自主閱讀 是章節書哦,黑白文字的

很好的分級閱讀，非常喜歡，雖然紙張是再生紙

很好的分級閱讀，非常喜歡，雖然紙張是再生紙