I Paddeborg by bor en gutt som heter Tommy. En dag han er ute i båten sin og fisker faller en mann i sjøen, og Tommy redder ham fra å drukne. Som takk vil mannen, som er veldig rik, gi Tommy en belønning - og det er slik Tommy får en elefant som heter Augustus. Gjennom bilder, tekst og sanger får vi høre historier om Tommy og elefanten, og om hvordan livet i Paddeborg arter seg med en elefant som medborger. En Thorbjørn Egner-klassiker som bør finnes i alle norske hjem.

He was the first to popularize the concept of time travel. He disturbed--and fascinated us with a frightening doctor's island. He wrote of an invisible man, of men on the moon, and of a war of the worlds. He has influenced countless other writers, artists, and even scientists. H. G. Wells is one of the most acclaimed science fiction writers who ever lived, and five of his classic tales are collected in this book for readers to treasure.H. G. Wells includes The Time Machine, The Island of Dr Moreau, The Invisble Man, The War of the Worlds, The First Men in the Moon, and The Food of the Gods. Readers new to this remarkable author will delight in these amazing stories, while fans of Wells will enjoy the insightful introduction by an expert on the author's life and work. All will appreciate the leather cover, gilded edges, printed endpapers, ribbon bookmark, and other features on this unique gift book.No library is complete without the works of H. G. Wells, the father of science fiction!

The Penguin English Library Edition of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells'Death!' I shouted. 'Death is coming! Death!'In this pioneering, shocking and nightmarish tale, naive suburban Londoners investigate a strange cylinder from space, but are instantly incinerated by an all-destroying heat-ray. Soon, gigantic killing machines that chase and feed on human prey are threatening the whole of humanity. A pioneering work of alien invasion fiction, The War of the World's journalistic style contrasts disturbingly with its horrifying visions of the human race under siege.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

H.P. Lovecraft was the inventor of cosmic horror, of weird fiction and the Cthulhu mythology. His stories, incubated by a lonely and febrile childhood, found purchase in the fertile earth of pulp fiction where he inspired many other writers, from Robert E. Howard, to Robert Bloch and Clark Ashton Smith, many of whom also collaborated on the several short stories, some of which are also included here, in this special deluxe edition. This title, alongside H.G. Wells Short Stories, is a companion volume to our hugely successful Gothic Fantasy series of classic and modern writers.

En fantastisk, argentinsk, moderne klassiker, for første gang i norsk oversettelse. En rømling søker ly på en øde øy. Like etter kommer en gruppe turister, og rømlingen må gjemme seg. Han spionerer intenst på de fremmede, men alt blir svært vanskelig etter at han forelsker seg i en av dem. Han vil gjerne fortelle henne hva han føler, men det er noe som hindrer ham fra å gjøre det, noe han ikke forstår helt selv.Men er han egentlig på en polynesisk øy som heter Villings, og er det riktig at alle der blir utsatt for en slags stråling? Hvordan kan det ha seg at samtalene mellom den elskede kvinnen og mannen Morel gjentar seg, uke etter hver uke? Denne romanen er en perle blant den kresne gruppen med bøker som henter handlingen sin fra øyer. Med sin gåtefulle stemning og sine suggererende personskildringer er det ikke så merkelig at et eksemplar av boka plutselig dukker opp i en episode i tv-serien LOST. Den underliggende spenningen både rundt hva som har skjedd, og hva som kan komme til å skje, har boka og tv-serien felles.OM BOKA:«Det påpekes i forlagets vaskeseddel at Morels oppfinnelse lesesi tv-serien Lost, som jo er et overflødighetshorn av hemmeligheter,paradokser, tidsforskyvninger og uutgrunnelig teknologi. Bioy Casares? bokinneholder nettopp disse elementene og foregår på det som hovedpersonen førstantar er en øde øy, så seriens referanse virker helt på sin plass... BioyCasares drar til mystifikasjonsskruen hardere og hardere: Det er ikke bare detat det er umulig å kommunisere med de andre. Vår mann ser to soler på himmelen.Som tittelen røper er det en oppfinnelse blandet inn ... oppfinnelsen har vissefinurlige trekk som gjør at hovedpersonen faktisk får et fornyet håp om åslippe frem til Faustine og få kontakt med henne. Slik overlever håpet i romanen. Det er mot alle odds. Men så er detteen roman mot alle odds. Om den ikke lever helt opp til karakteristikken fraBorges, «fullkommen», og fra Octavio Paz, «perfekt», så er det fullt mulig åforstå romanens status som kultklassiker 70 år etter at den utkom første gang.Lasse Midttun, Morgenbladet«Bioy Casares' «Morels oppfinnelse»hører hjemme i robinsonadens nabolag. Men det er nok ikke Defoes kolonialeutopia, «Robinson Crusoe», som er romanens eksakte adresse. De nærmeste naboenetil «Morelsoppfinnelse» er snarere H.G. Wells' dystopiske «The Island ofDoctor Moreau» (1896) som klinger med i tittelen og Jules Vernes eventyrlige «L'iÎlemystérieuse» («Den hemmelighetsfulle øya», 1874).... Morelsoppfinnelse» er en roman der bildene florerer og ser ut til åleve sitt eget liv. Den blir selv et bilde på en kultur som overgir stadig merav sin essens til det imaginære uten at romanen av den grunn forfaller tilkulturkritisk allegorisering. Den toneangivende franske litteraturfilosofenMaurice Blanchot lot seg allerede på 1950-tallet inspirere av «Morels oppfinnelse»til en lengre refleksjon over litteraturens billedkvalitet. Siden den gang hardenne romanen hatt en helt spesiell status i fransk litteratur og inspirert tilflere filmatiseringer, også Resnais' legendariske «I fjor i Marienbad». Bioy Casares'lakoniske prosastil har tydeligvis falt i god jord hos oversetter Christian Rugstad.»Gisle Selnes, KlassekampenOM FORFATTERENAlfonso Bioy Casares (1914?1999) er født i Buenos Aires. I bøkene sine blander han det ikke-realistiske med en gjennomgripende humor. Han har utgitt en rekke romaner, novellesamlinger og dagbøker og har samarbeidet med Jorge Luis Borges. Sammen med Borges og Cortázar er han blant de store i argentinsk litteratur.

How competing visions of world order in the 1940s gave rise to the modern concept of globalismDuring and after the Second World War, public intellectuals in Britain and the United States grappled with concerns about the future of democracy, the prospects of liberty, and the decline of the imperial system. Without using the term "globalization," they identified a shift toward technological, economic, cultural, and political interconnectedness and developed a "globalist" ideology to reflect this new postwar reality. The Emergence of Globalism examines the competing visions of world order that shaped these debates and led to the development of globalism as a modern political concept.Shedding critical light on this neglected chapter in the history of political thought, Or Rosenboim describes how a transnational network of globalist thinkers emerged from the traumas of war and expatriation in the 1940s and how their ideas drew widely from political philosophy, geopolitics, economics, imperial thought, constitutional law, theology, and philosophy of science. She presents compelling portraits of Raymond Aron, Owen Lattimore, Lionel Robbins, Barbara Wootton, Friedrich Hayek, Lionel Curtis, Richard McKeon, Michael Polanyi, Lewis Mumford, Jacques Maritain, Reinhold Niebuhr, H. G. Wells, and others. Rosenboim shows how the globalist debate they embarked on sought to balance the tensions between a growing recognition of pluralism on the one hand and an appreciation of the unity of humankind on the other.An engaging look at the ideas that have shaped today's world, The Emergence of Globalism is a major work of intellectual history that is certain to fundamentally transform our understanding of the globalist ideal and its origins.

This collection of H.G. Wells's correspondence draws on over 50 archives and libraries worldwide, including the papers of Wells's daughter by Amber Reeves. The book contains over 2000 letters, both business and personal. Wells's private correspondence includes letters to Winston Churchill.

H. G. Wells is often referred to as `the father of science fiction' and this compendium of his stories contains two of his most well-known works in the genre, The Time Machine (1895) and The War of the Worlds (1897). In addition, the reader is treated to some stories of truly extraordinary dimensions: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), When the Sleeper Wakes (1899), The First Men in the Moon (1901) and The Food of the Gods and How it came to Earth (1904). But Wells's phenomenal imagination ranged far and wide and thus we have included here two works of comic social realism, Kipps (1905) and The History of Mr. Polly (1910), stories that resound with Edwardian dreams, frustrations and triumphs. Wells is such a brilliant storyteller that well over a century after their publication, all of these texts are as fresh and compelling to us today as they would have been when his initial readers first turned their pages, often in astonishment and frequently in amusement. This is certainly a collection of the very best of H.G. Wells and we encourage you to devour them, and above all to enjoy the mercurial talent of this most original and precocious writer.

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'No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's'Exploring the primordial nightmares that lurk within humanity's dreams of progress and technology, H. G. Wells was a science fiction pioneer. This new omnibus edition brings together four of his hugely original and influential science-fiction novels - The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds - with his most unsettling and strange short stories. Containing monstrous experiments, terrifying journeys, alien occupiers and grotesque creatures, these visionary tales discomfit and disturb, and retain the power to trouble our sense of who we are.With an introduction by Matthew Beaumont

'I will go in, out of this dust and heat, out of this dry glitter of vanity, out of these toilsome futilities. I will go and never return.'Three disturbing, mysterious and moving stories from Wells, science-fiction pioneer.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.H. G. Wells (1866-1946). Wells's works available in Penguin Classics are Ann Veronica, The Country of the Blind and Other Selected Stories, The First Men in the Moon, The Invisible Man, The Island of Doctor Moreau, Kipps, Love and Mr Lewisham, A Modern Utopia, The New Machiavelli, The Shape of Things to Come, A Short History of the World, The Sleeper Awakes, The Time Machine, Tono-Bungay, The War in the Air and The War of the Worlds.

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From the "father of science fiction," H. G. Wells, comes two masterpieces of speculative science fiction storytelling: The Time Machine and The Invisible Man. The former propels the time traveling protagonist to the distant year of 802,701 AD. To his horror, he find only a decaying Earth that is being gradually swallowed by the Sun, and where two strange species--the delicate Eloi and the fierce, subterranean Morlocks--inhabit an eerie dystopia. The latter offers the mesmerizing account of a bitter young scientist who discovers the chemical secret of invisibility. After using on himself, he embarks on a terrifying descent into crime, obsession, and insanity. Both of these science fiction classics are as chilling as they are thought-provoking. Easily required reading for any science fiction or thriller fan, don't wait to enjoy classic stories, especially when they are combined into an elegantly designed, clothbound edition that features an elastic closure and a new introduction.

Part of the Legend Classics seriesA brilliant scientist constructs a machine that allows him to journey into the future. He travels to the year AD 802,701 where he discovers that humanity has evolved into two separate races: the beautiful vegetarian Eloi people who live purposeless lives and the terrifying carnivorous Morlocks who lives under the ground. After barely escaping the Morlocks, the time-travelling scientist has to make yet another trip even further into the futureThe Time Machine is considered one of the best science-fiction novel of all time and the first to popularize the concept of a time machine - a term coined by Wells.

In these 'scientific romances' H. G. Wells sees the present reflected in the future and the future in the present. His aim is to provoke rather than predict. The Sleeper falls into a trance, waking up two centuries later as the richest man in a world of new technologies, power-greedy leaders, sensual elites, and brutalised industrial slaves. Arriving in the year 802,701, the Time-Traveller finds that humanity has evolved into two drastically different species; going farther still, he witnesses the ultimate fate of the solar system. The Chronic Argonauts, the original version of The Time Machine, pits a scientist with daring views of time and space against superstitious villagers. In all three works Wells laces vivid adventure stories with the latest ideas in biology and physics.

This volume unites four of Wells' liveliest and most engaging tales of the strange evolution and behaviour of animals - including human beings. The Island of Doctor Moreau is followed by three fantastic yet chillingly plausible short stories of human-animal encounters.

When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to Kent to write a play, he encounters Dr Cavor, an absent-minded scientist who has invented a material that counteracts gravity. This discovery enables the two men to set off on a fantastic journey to the Moon. But they are not prepared for what they find there - a world of freezing nights, boiling days and danger from a sinister alien lifeform, the selenites, creatures who have developed an intricate hierarchical society beneath the lunar surface.

I Vagant 4/2014 kan man følge Øystein Vidnes' jakt på Norges beste film gjennom tidene, lese Ragnild Lomes grundige gjennomgang av Carl Frode Tillers Innsirkling-trilogi og fordype seg i Eivind Evjemos forfatterskap sammen med Arne Borge. Ikke minst kan man ta del i redaksjonens undersøkelse av resorten som fenomen i fortid og nåtid. Nummerets temaavdeling tar for seg disse lommene menneskene skaper i livene sine - enten det dreier seg om glamorøse feriefabrikker eller Den Norske Turistforenings tilrettelegging for noen dager med et enklere liv. Vagant ble i november tildelt Språkprisen 2014 av Norsk Språkråd, «for fremragende bruk av norsk språk i sakprosa». «Vinneren tar for gitt at leserne har like stor kjærlighet og interesse for verden, livet og språket som avsenderen selv,» skrev juryen.