威尔斯的《世界简史》共有六十七章，从宇宙中的地球写起，一直讲到第一次世界大战后的“凡尔赛和约”，从人类文明的开始到第一次世界大战结束，再现了人类文明酸甜苦辣的历程。
作者抛弃了堆积枯燥的文学史料，以抽丝剥茧的方式将冗长繁杂的文学史料简化精炼，简洁明了、脉络清晰地再现了这段历史，堪称大众通俗世界史的经典之作。

On a cold day in February, a stranger arrives in the village of Iping. He wears gloves and dark glasses, even inside, and his face is covered in bandages. Soon crimes occur that cannot be explained, and the townspeople realize the unthinkable truth: the strange man is invisible--and he is slowly going mad.The Invisible Man is a dangerous enemy who must be stopped. But if no one can see him, how can he be caught?

Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettable movies, this early work of H. G. Wells was greeted in 1896 by howls of protest from reviewers, who found it horrifying and blasphemous. They wanted to know more about the wondrous possibilities of science shown in his first book, The Time Machine, not its potential for misuse and terror. In The Island of Dr. Moreau a shipwrecked gentleman named Edward Prendick, stranded on a Pacific island lorded over by the notorious Dr. Moreau, confronts dark secrets, strange creatures, and a reason to run for his life.
While this riveting tale was intended to be a commentary on evolution, divine creation, and the tension between human nature and culture, modern readers familiar with genetic engineering will marvel at Wells’s prediction of the ethical issues raised by producing “smarter” human beings or bringing back extinct species. These levels of interpretation add a richness to Prendick’s adventures on Dr. Moreau’s island of lost souls without distracting from what is still a rip-roaring good read.

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Dr. Moreau, a scientist expelled from his homeland for cruel experiments, finds a deserted island where he can create hideous creatures with manlike intelligence. But as the rigid order on Moreau's island dissolves, the consequences of his experiments emerge-and his creations revert to beasts more shocking than nature could devise.

《写给年轻人的简明世界史》是20世纪初英国现实主义小说三杰之一赫伯特·威尔斯的一部世界史力作。全书共六十七章，用轻松的笔调，简洁的语言，讲述了从生命诞生到第一次世界大战结束的人类历史，世界历史的重大事件、风云人物、辉煌文明、灿烂文化在作者的笔下栩栩如生。《写给年轻人的简明世界史》融古今于一体，既讲述过去，又论及未来，读来饶有趣味，不忍释手。同时编者配入300余幅与文字契合的精美图片，力图使读者能够更直观、更真切地感受历史的进程，在较短的时间内把握人类伟大文明的历史脉络，从中获得更丰富的知识和更广阔的文化视野。

Two classic science fiction novels in one handsome volume.
Here are two masterpieces of irony and imaginative vision from the father of science fiction. The Time Machine propels the Time Traveller into a distant, dismal, Darwinian future. The Invisible Man tells of a brash young scientist who becomes invisible, then insane.

The story that launched Wells's successful career-the classic tale of the Time Traveler and the extraordinary world he discovers in the far distant future. A haunting portrayal of Darwin's evolutionary theory carried to a terrible conclusion.

威尔斯要带给读者的是更冷静、谨慎的忠告。你可以了解一个事物，但应该注意如何去应用它。
——科幻作家 阿西莫夫
格里芬是一个丧心病狂的科学家，就像为数众多的灾难都由丧心病狂的科学家引起的一样，格里芬对光学和生物学进行了彻底的研究之后制造出了可以使人隐形的药物。
他尽情地享受着这种药物带来的好处。没有人可以看见他，没有人可以阻挡他。他可以杀人、可以盗窃、可以颠覆整个世界……
直到寒冬来临，人可以隐形，衣服却不能……

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《历史的概要》主要内容简介：赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯(1866～1946)，英国著名小说家，尤以科幻小说创作闻名于世，著名的有《时间机器》《隐身人》《星际战争》等。他还是位社会改革家和预言家，一生创作了百多部作品，内容涉及科学、文化、历史、社会、政治等各个领域。
《历史的概要》是1921年的美国非小说类畅销书，1927年由商务印书馆引入中国，译名为《世界史纲》。这是一本饶有兴味的书。威尔斯以文学家的手笔从地球史写到人类史，从人类如何产生写到第一次世界大战如何结束，述来娓娓动听，引人入胜。

《时间机器》是英国作家赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯最著名的两篇著作之一（另一篇是大家都再熟悉不过的《世界大战》），这两篇作品在当时曾令我沉溺了好久。而其中最使我感兴趣的是时间旅行的奇妙之处：这在当时还引发了一场关于时间旅行的社会问题及伦理的大争论。故事情节同样的引人入胜，充满了惊险刺激和悬疑。《时间机器》运用了某种近乎恐怖的手法和错综复杂的情节，展示了一个震撼人心的感人故事，描绘了一幅未来世界的可怕图画。

When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the aliens traverse the country in huge three-legged machines, incinerating all in their path with a heat ray and spreading noxious toxic gases, the people of the Earth must come to terms with the prospect of the end of human civilization and the beginning of Martian rule.
Inspiring films, radio dramas, comic-book adaptations, television series and sequels,The War of the Worlds is a prototypical work of science fiction which has influenced every alien story that has come since, and is unsurpassed in its ability to thrill, well over a century since it was first published.

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This masterpiece of science fiction is the fascinating story of Griffin, a scientist who creates a serum to render himself invisible, and his descent into madness that follows.

Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of the First World War, this is a brilliantly compelling account of the evolution of life and the development of the human race. Along the way, Wells considers such diverse subjects as the Neolithic era, the rise of Judaism, the Golden Age of Athens, the life of Christ, the rise of Islam, the discovery of America and the Industrial Revolution. Breathtaking in its scope and passionate in its intensity, this history remains one of the most readable of its kind.

It's one of the most famous novels of the 19th century, and probably the one that's least actually read. *The Invisible Man,* first published in 1897, became the basis for the classic 1933 film starring Claude Rains-as well as its many spinoffs-but the novel is quite different: it's an early example of science fantasy that was as much about character as it was about concept. One of the most enduringly popular writers of modern literature, Wells here assured his position as one of the fathers of imaginative literature with his psychologically complex tale of a scientist who renders himself invisible and eventually goes mad because of it. And because it focuses more on people than on technology, it remains a compelling tale even more than a century after it was written. British author HERBERT GEORGE WELLS (1866-1946) is best known for his groundbreaking science fiction novels *The Time Machine* (1895), *The Invisible Man* (1897), and *The War of the Worlds* (1898).

《世界大战》姊妹篇，火星人卷土重来！
一个奇思异想的发酵与流传，一种成长过程中的困惑与不安！
《时间机器》作者威尔斯后期科幻小说代表作！
《新人来自火星》再次展现了《世界大战》中火星人的先进技术。《世界大战》中的火星人以激进暴力的方式对人类进行“革命式”入侵，而《新人来自火星》中的火星人则以渐进温和的手段对人类进行“改良式”渗透，作品间接描述了一种来自火星人的长期外部干预。火星人通过发射宇宙射线的形式诱导地球人实现改良性质的突变，将人类转化为智力超群且足以构建地球乌托邦的新人类。主人公在听闻火星人发射宇宙射线对人类影响的坊间传闻后，对即将降生的孩子可能产生的变异感到不安。直到他最终发现……

《世界史纲》作者预言200年后的世界！
启发了“反乌托邦三部曲”扎米亚京《我们》、赫胥黎《美丽新世界》、奥威尔《1984》!
反乌托邦小说先驱之作！
《昏睡百年》讲述的是主人公格雷汉姆在长期失眠后终于昏睡过去，醒来时却发现自己已然身处两百年后的世界。存款复利的神秘增长使他牢牢控制了世界经济，从而“莫名其妙”地成为世界之主，且有12名受托人以他的名义组成管理团体。管理团体对格雷汉姆的苏醒毫无准备，以至为了维护统治地位，试图隐瞒和控制格雷汉姆的行动。然而东窗事发……

与《时间机器》齐名的永恒科幻经典！
《三体》等“外星人入侵”题材的开山鼻祖！
以此改编的广播剧曾在美国引起巨大恐慌！
《世界大战》中，入侵者并非敌国，而是地球以外的火星人。火星人被叙述成狰狞的怪物，且依靠吸食人类的血液为生。这些怪物在英国进行大肆破坏，而威尔斯却从一个寻常之极的市民视角，以荒芜萧索的笔触营造了一种凄凉的绝望，在平淡与挣扎中呈现世界由人间堕入地狱的恐怖末日……故事的结尾将末日的转折交给了为人所忽略的细微之物，着实耐人寻味，令人眼界大开……