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Oct 05, 2010 | ISBN 9780451531674 Buy *This format is not eligible to earn points towards the Reader Rewards program
Oct 05, 2010 | ISBN 9781101657522 Buy
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Oct 05, 2010 | ISBN 9780451531674
Oct 05, 2010 | ISBN 9781101657522
THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NEW MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!From the twentieth century’s first great practitioner of the novel of ideas comes a consummate masterpiece of science fiction about a man trapped in the terror of his own creation.A stranger emerges out of a freezing February day with a request for lodging in a cozy provincial inn. Who is this out-of-season traveler? More confounding is the thick mask of bandages obscuring his face. Why is he disguised in such a manner? What keeps him hidden in his room? The villagers, aroused by trepidation and curiosity, bring it upon themselves to find the answers. What they discover is not only a man trapped in the terror of his own creation, but a chilling reflection of the unsolvable mysteries of their own souls. “My fantastic stories do not pretend to deal with possible things. They aim indeed only at the same amount of conviction as one gets in a gripping good dream.”—H. G. WellsWith an Introduction by W. Warren Wagarand an Afterword by Scott Westerfeld
H.G. Wells was born in Bromley, Kent, in 1866. After an education repeatedly interrupted by his family’s financial problems, he eventually found work as a teacher at a succession of schools, where he began to write his first stories. Wells… More about H. G. Wells
“I personally consider the greatest of English living writers [to be] H. G. Wells.”—Upton Sinclair
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