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¿Cuentos de terror de Allan Poe para niños? ¿Marcianos de H. G. Wells destruyendo la Tierra como primera lectura? El terror y la ciencia ficción son sin duda dos de los géneros preferidos por el público infantil. Estos libros proponen una primera incursion en los universos narrativos de dos de sus grandes creadores, Poe y Wells. Las adaptaciones de Jvlivs trasmiten, en un lenguaje accesible para los niños, toda la riqueza de los textos originales manteniendo el espiritu y la atmosfera de los relatos.

Translator: J. Kuylman

With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin - the new guest at The Coach and Horses - is at first assumed to be a shy accident-victim. But the true reason for his disguise is far more chilling: he has developed a process that has made him invisible, and is locked in a struggle to discover the antidote. Forced from the village, and driven to murder, he seeks the aid of an old friend, Kemp. The horror of his fate has affected his mind, however - and when Kemp refuse to help, he resolves to wreak his revenge.

Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel carrying a profoundly unusual cargo - a menagerie of savage animals. Tended to recovery by their keeper Montgomery, who gives him dark medicine that tastes of blood, Prendick soon finds himself stranded upon an uncharted island in the Pacific with his rescuer and the beasts. Here, he meets Montgomery's master, the sinister Dr. Moreau - a brilliant scientist whose notorious experiments in vivisection have caused him to abandon the civilised world. It soon becomes clear he has been developing these experiments - with truly horrific results.

H.G. Wellss short story, A Catastrophe was published alongside many of his other works in The Plattner Story and Others. This novella is a poignant tale of a cloth merchant, named Winslow, whose business is on the brink of bankrupcy; his competitor Bandersnatch undercuts his prices and he still owes his investors Helter, Skelter and Grab money. His fortunes change, however, when the titular catastrophe strikes the family just in time to stop complete financial ruin.

Com sua prodigiosa imaginação, o escritor inglês H. G. Wells (1866-1946) cria, em obra de 1910, um futuro sombrio e distópico, muito diferente da era vitoriana em que viveu, considerada por ele mesmo

At a dinner party in suburban London, the Time Traveller, known to the reader only as the Eminent Scientist, speaks to his guests about the fourth dimension of space--i.e. time. He states that it is possible to travel through time much as one travels through space. The guests are not persuaded, even after seeing the Eminent Scientist's time machine itself. At a later dinner party, the scientist arrives a little late, rumpled and dirty. He tells them he has spent the equivalent of eight days in the year 802,701. He encountered the Eloi, a race of delicate gentle vegetarians who exist in an idyllic garden, and the Morlocks, who live underground and operate the machinery and industrial equipment of the world. The Eloi, in other words are descendents of capitalism, and the Morlocks are the progeny of the proletariat. The Time Traveller then hurries into the year 30,000,000, where he sees a single life form--a round, tentacled thing near the ocean. He concludes that this represents the end of life on earth.

Prendrick, a survivor of a shipwreck, is picked up by a schooner bound for Noble''s Isle. On the island, Prendrick encounters the Beast People, roughly human but with animalistic traits. It turns out that Dr. Moreau, a scientist who came to the island years before, has been developing animals into humans with the help of his assistant Montgomery. When Moreau is killed, the Beast People revert and their world becomes utterly chaotic. Prendrick, while imagining himself to remain a cut above the Beast People, becomes somewhat bestial himself. He is rescued from the island, but cannot shake off the perverse vision of the Beast People as he continues his life among men.

La guerra de los mundos, publicada por primera vez en 1898, narra por primera vez en la historia de la literatura un tema que será recurrente desde entonces y originará todo un subgénero dentro de la ciencia ficcion: la invasion hostil de la Tierra por extraterrestres procedentes de Marte, recibidos por una humanidad ingenua que tendra que organizarse para impedir una destruccion masiva del planeta. A traves de esta fabula en la que las descripciones cientificas, las premoniciones sobre el futuro de la tecnologia y los entresijos de la politica ocupan un lugar central, H. G. Wells nos habla sobre la vanidad y la seguridad ficticia de una humanidad autosatifecha, y los peligros que acechan su supervivencia.

The titles in this series are mainly new editions of titles in the "Longman Simplified English Series". They are suitable for students at upper intermediate level, including those preparing for the Cambridge First Certificate. Every book has been re-edited to ensure ease of understanding and naturalness of language and keeps within the 2000 word Defining Vocabulary of the "Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English". Any additional vocabulary used is explained in the glossary. All titles feature a four to five page introduction to the authors, characters and themes of the texts, giving students not only background information, but also help in literary appreciation. Additionally, there is exercise material at the back of each book: 50 questions on factual detail, with a further 20 more open-ended questions for written work or to stimulate discussion.

Em obra de 1908, um dos pais da ficção científica, o escritor inglês H. G. Wells antecipa o cenário de um bombardeio aéreo e vislumbra um futuro sombrio e distópico.H. G. Wells (1866-1946) foi uma ce

A gripping and entertaining tale of terror and suspense as well as a potent Faustian allegory of hubris and science run amok, The Invisible Man endures as one of the signature stories in the literature of science fiction. A brilliant scientist uncovers the secret to invisibility, but his grandiose dreams and the power he unleashes cause him to spiral into intrigue, madness, and murder. The inspiration for countless imitations and film adaptations, The Invisible Man is as remarkable and relevant today as it was a hundred years ago. As Arthur C. Clarke points out in his Introduction, The interest of the story . . . lies not in its scientific concepts, but in the brilliantly worked out development of the theme of invisibility. If one could be invisible, then what? I personally consider the greatest of English living writers [to be] H. G. Wells. Upton Sinclair