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Englisch Fur Anfanger Und Fortgeschrittene
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Book Synopsis Thomas's Fears and Hopes Short Stories in Plain Spoken German by : Belinda Depp
Download or read book Thomas's Fears and Hopes Short Stories in Plain Spoken German written by Belinda Depp and published by Audiolego. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas had returned home to Georgia for his father's funeral. He became informed that he would receive the entire estate as he was the only child. Then a few events happened that scared him. The book is equipped with the audio tracks. The address of the home page of the book on the Internet, where audio files are available for listening and downloading, is listed at the beginning of the book on the copyright page.
Book Synopsis Der Selbstlernkurs Englisch für Fortgeschrittene by : Barry Baddock
Download or read book Der Selbstlernkurs Englisch für Fortgeschrittene written by Barry Baddock and published by Hueber Verlag. This book was released on 1999-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Teste Dein Englisch!. 1. Ein Testbuch für Anfänger by : Geoffrey Broughton
Download or read book Teste Dein Englisch!. 1. Ein Testbuch für Anfänger written by Geoffrey Broughton and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Äsops Fabeln für Jung und Alt by : Adelina Brant
Download or read book Äsops Fabeln für Jung und Alt written by Adelina Brant and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-18 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Äsops Fabeln, auch Äsopika genannt, sind eine Sammlung von Fabeln, die Äsop zugeschrieben werden, einem Sklaven und Geschichtenerzähler, der zwischen 620 und 564 v. Chr. im antiken Griechenland gelebt haben soll. Es war einmal, vor langer Zeit in einem fernen Land, dass alle Dinge und Wesen nicht nur Bewusstsein hatten, sondern sich auch in derselben Sprache verständigen konnten. Diese Geschichten enthalten destillierte Weisheit und können mit großer Wirkung eingesetzt werden. Sie lehren vor allem moralische Lektionen über Liebe und Respekt und Gier und all die inneren Dämonen, die uns ständig plagen. Die Allegorien in den Fabeln sind raffiniert und reichhaltig. Normalerweise sind Tiere die Protagonisten, vielleicht, weil die Darstellung menschlicher Verhaltensweisen – besonders der verächtlichen – im Spiegel unserer tierischen Weltgefährten es uns einfacher macht, die Wurzel des Bösen zu erkennen. Das ist Äsops Welt. Der Schlüssel zu ihr liegt in der Beobachtung, dass gegenseitiges Verständnis nicht schon dadurch entsteht, dass alle Dinge einander verstehen; nein, da fängt der Spaß erst an. Die Fabeln sind eine gute Lektüre für Kinder. Sie sind aber gleichzeitig erstaunlich unterhaltsam für Erwachsene. In aller Kürze zielen sie direkt auf menschliche Alltagserfahrungen ab, die jeder kennt und täglich macht. Das Buch auf dem Sprachniveau A2 bietet eine parallele Übersetzung, die es dem Leser ermöglicht, die englische Sprache in kürzerer Zeit zu lernen. Auf einen Blick lässt sich hier sofort erkennen, was unbekannte Wörter bedeuten. Die Audiodateien sind inklusive und online erhältlich. Mit Hilfe von QR-Codes kann man im Handumdrehen auf eine Audiodatei zugreifen, ohne manuell Webadressen eintippen zu müssen.
Book Synopsis Englisch für den Badebetrieb by : Patrick Smith
Download or read book Englisch für den Badebetrieb written by Patrick Smith and published by tredition. This book was released on 2023-10-11 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dieses e-book stellt alle Lösungen sowie sämtliche Transkripte zum Lehrwerk "Englisch für den Badebetrieb" bereit. Es ermöglicht die Überprüfung der eigenen Lernergebnisse.
Book Synopsis Lerne Englische Fragen und Antworten für Anfänger by : Steven Reed
Download or read book Lerne Englische Fragen und Antworten für Anfänger written by Steven Reed and published by tredition. This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dieses Buch ist Band 5 in der Serie Gestufte Englische Lesebücher. Das Buch enthält einen Kurs für Anfänger und Fortgeschrittene, wobei die Texte auf Englisch und auf Deutsch nebeneinanderstehen. Die Motivation der Leser wird durch nützliche Beispiele für Fragen und Antworten aufrechterhalten. Witze und Sprüche helfen das Eis zu brechen. Die dabei verwendete Methode basiert auf der natürlichen menschlichen Gabe, sich Wörter zu merken, die immer wieder und systematisch im Text auftauchen. Besonders neue Wörter und Sätze, die immer wieder vorkommen, werden sich fast automatisch im Gehirn festsetzen. Das Buch bietet eine parallele Übersetzung, die dem Leser das Erlernen der Sprache in kürzerer Zeit ermöglicht. Auf einem Blick kann hier sofort gesehen werden, was unbekannte Wörter bedeuten. Die 1300 gebräuchliche Wörter sind in Kategorien unterteilt. Die Audiodateien sind online inklusive erhältlich. Mithilfe von QR-Codes kann man im Handumdrehen eine Audiodatei aufrufen, ohne Webadressen manuell eingeben. Dieses Buch hat schon vielen Menschen geholfen, ihr wahres Sprachpotential zu entdecken. Zwanzig Minuten am Tag sind die Grundlage für Erfolg!
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Usage Dictionary English-German / German-English - Gebrauchswörterbuch Englisch-Deutsch / Deutsch-Englisch by : Gabriele Stein
Download or read book A Usage Dictionary English-German / German-English - Gebrauchswörterbuch Englisch-Deutsch / Deutsch-Englisch written by Gabriele Stein and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 2499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dictionary is based on a new concept which takes into account recent developments and findings in lexicographical research. It combines the best features of monolingual and bilingual dictionaries as well as learner dictionaries. Every sense of a word is first fully explained and then provided with translation equivalents. The grammatical behaviour of the words, their construction patterns are described in a language that is clear and easy to understand. Every sense of a word, every construction pattern is illustrated with an example. These example sentences are given in English and German so that the word looked up is shown in actual use and the translation guarantees its understanding and promotes retention. Special care is taken to explain differences between English and German in language use and culture. A new reader-friendly layout ensures that users will easily and speedily find the answer to what they want to know.
Book Synopsis Can You Forgive Her? by : Anthony Trollope
Download or read book Can You Forgive Her? written by Anthony Trollope and published by tredition. This book was released on 2022-05-06 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can You Forgive Her? - Anthony Trollope - Can You Forgive Her? is a novel by Anthony Trollope, first published in serial form in 1864 and 1865. It is the first of six novels in the Palliser series, also known as the Parliamentary Novels. The novel follows three parallel stories of courtship and marriage and the decisions of three women: Alice Vavasor, her cousin Glencora Palliser, and her aunt Arabella Greenow. Early on, Alice asks the question "What should a woman do with her life?" This theme repeats itself in the dilemmas faced by the other women in the novel. Lady Glencora and her husband Plantagenet Palliser recur in the remainder of the series.
Book Synopsis The Story Girl by : Lucy Maud Montgomery
Download or read book The Story Girl written by Lucy Maud Montgomery and published by tredition. This book was released on 2022-05-06 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story Girl - Lucy Maud Montgomery - The Story Girl is a 1911 novel by Canadian author L. M. Montgomery. It narrates the adventures of a group of young cousins and their friends who live in a rural community on Prince Edward Island, Canada. Lucy Maud Montgomery OBE (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a collection of novels, essays, short stories, and poetry beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. She published 20 novels as well as 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 essays. Anne of Green Gables was an immediate success; the title character, orphan Anne Shirley, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. Most of the novels were set in Prince Edward Island, and those locations within Canada's smallest province became a literary landmark and popular tourist site – namely Green Gables farm, the genesis of Prince Edward Island National Park. She was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1935. Montgomery's work, diaries, and letters have been read and studied by scholars and readers worldwide. The L. M. Montgomery Institute, University of Prince Edward Island, is responsible for the scholarly inquiry into the life, works, culture, and influence of L. M. Montgomery.
Book Synopsis The Fables of La Fontaine by : Jean de la Fontaine
Download or read book The Fables of La Fontaine written by Jean de la Fontaine and published by tredition. This book was released on 2022-05-06 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fables of La Fontaine - Jean de la Fontaine - Jean de La Fontaine collected fables from a wide variety of sources, both Western and Eastern, and adapted them into French free verse. They were issued under the general title of Fables in several volumes from 1668 to 1694 and are considered classics of French literature. Humorous, nuanced and ironical, they were originally aimed at adults but then entered the educational system and were required learning for school children. The first six books, collected in 1668, were in the main adapted from the classical fabulists Aesop, Babrius and Phaedrus. In these, La Fontaine adhered to the path of his predecessors with some closeness; but in the later collections he allowed himself far more liberty and in the later books there is a wider range of sources. In the later books, the so-called Indian Bidpai is drawn upon for oriental fables that had come to the French through translations from Persian. The most likely source for La Fontaine was the pseudonymous version by Gilbert Gaulmin (1585–1665) under the title The book of Enlightenment or the Conduct of Kings (French: Le Livre des lumières ou la Conduite des Roys, composée par le sage Pilpay Indien, traduite en français par David Sahid, d'Ispahan, ville capitale de Perse; 1644). Another translation by Father Pierre Poussines appeared in 1666 with the Latin title Specimen sapientiae Indorum veterum (A sample of ancient Indian wisdom). With a genealogy going back to the Indian Panchatantra, they were then attributed to Bidpai (Pilpay), who is given more than his fair due by La Fontaine in the preface to his second collection of Fables: "I must acknowledge that I owe the greatest part to Pilpay, the Indian sage." (French: Je dirai par reconnaissance que j'en dois la plus grande partie à Pilpay sage indien.) His sources are in fact much more diverse and by no means mainly oriental; of 89 fables, no more than twenty are found in Bidpai's collection.
Book Synopsis Sam in the Suburbs by : P. G. Wodehouse
Download or read book Sam in the Suburbs written by P. G. Wodehouse and published by tredition. This book was released on 2022-04-29 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam in the Suburbs - P. G. Wodehouse - Having failed miserably while working for his uncle, Sam finds himself shipped off to America. He would much rather have been headed to Canada as he'd fallen in love with the picture of a women he'd found left behind in a remote cabin when he'd vacationed there. That is, until he sees another picture of her, in America, while visiting an old friend. He discovers his dream girl, Kay, is the niece of Matthew Wrenn who works for Mammoth Publishing Company. Sam takes a job with Mammoth Publishing Company and rents the house next door to the Wrenn's. From there he sets out to win Kay's affections. Throw in a mystery of a lost family treasure and a gang of thieves and you have the makings of a spirited romp! P. G. Wodehouse at his very best. Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. Born in Guildford, the son of a British magistrate based in Hong Kong, Wodehouse spent happy teenage years at Dulwich College, to which he remained devoted all his life. After leaving school he was employed by a bank but disliked the work and turned to writing in his spare time. His early novels were mostly school stories, but he later switched to comic fiction, creating several regular characters who became familiar to the public over the years. They include the feather-brained Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet, Jeeves; the immaculate and loquacious Psmith; the feeble-minded Lord Emsworth and the Blandings Castle set; the loquacious Oldest Member, with stories about golf; and the equally loquacious Mr Mulliner, with tall tales on subjects ranging from bibulous bishops to megalomaniac movie moguls. Although most of Wodehouse's fiction is set in England, he spent much of his life in the US and used New York and Hollywood as settings for some of his novels and short stories. During and after the First World War, together with Guy Bolton and Jerome Kern, he wrote a series of Broadway musical comedies that were an important part of the development of the American musical. He began the 1930s writing for MGM in Hollywood. In a 1931 interview, his naïve revelations of incompetence and extravagance at Hollywood studios caused a furore. In the same decade, his literary career reached a new peak.
Book Synopsis The Rape of Lucrece by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book The Rape of Lucrece written by William Shakespeare and published by tredition. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rape of Lucrece - William Shakespeare - The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Roman noblewoman Lucretia. In his previous narrative poem, Venus and Adonis (1593), Shakespeare had included a dedicatory letter to his patron, the Earl of Southampton, in which he promised to compose a "graver labour". Accordingly, The Rape of Lucrece has a serious tone throughout. The poem begins with a prose dedication addressed directly to the Earl of Southampton, which begins, "The love I dedicate to your Lordship is without end." It refers to the poem as a pamphlet, which describes the form of its original publication of 1594.The dedication is followed by "The Argument", a prose paragraph that summarizes the historical context of the poem, which begins in medias res. The poem contains 1,855 lines, divided into 265 stanzas of seven lines each. The meter of each line is iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme for each stanza is ABABBCC, a format known as "rhyme royal", which has been used by Geoffrey Chaucer, John Milton and John Masefield. One evening, at the town of Ardea, where a battle is being fought, two leading Roman soldiers, Tarquin and Collatine, are talking. Collatine describes his wife, Lucrece, in glowing terms—she is beautiful and chaste. The following morning, Tarquin travels to Collatine's home. Lucrece welcomes him. Tarquin entertains her with stories of her husband's deeds on the battlefield.Tarquin spends the night, and is torn by his desire for Lucrece. His desire overcomes him, and he goes to Lucrece's chamber, where she is asleep. He reaches out and touches her breast, which wakes her up. She is afraid. He tells her that she must give in to him, or else he will kill her. He also threatens to cause her dishonor by murdering a slave and placing the two bodies in each other's arms, and then he would claim that he killed her because he discovered them in this embrace. If she would give in to him, Tarquin promises to keep it all secret. Lucrece pleads with him to no avail. He rapes her. Full of shame and guilt, Tarquin sneaks away. Lucrece is devastated, furious and suicidal. She writes a letter to her husband, asking him to come home. When Collatine gets home, Lucrece tells him the whole story, but doesn't say who did it. Collatine demands to know. Before she tells him, Lucrece gets the soldiers, who are also there, to promise to avenge this crime. She then tells her husband who did it, and she immediately pulls out a knife, stabs herself and dies. Collatine's grief is great—he wants to kill himself, as well. His friend, Brutus, suggests that revenge is a better choice. The soldiers carry Lucrece's body through the streets of Rome. The citizens, angered, banish Tarquin and his family.
Book Synopsis The Seagull by : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Download or read book The Seagull written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by tredition. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seagull - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - The Seagull is a play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. The Seagull is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. It dramatises the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the famous middlebrow story writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin Treplev. Like Chekhov's other full-length plays, The Seagull relies upon an ensemble cast of diverse, fully developed characters. In contrast to the melodrama of mainstream 19th-century theatre, lurid actions (such as Konstantin's suicide attempts) are not shown onstage. Characters tend to speak in ways that skirt around issues rather than addressing them directly; in other words, their lines are full of what is known in dramatic practice as subtext. The character Trigorin is considered one of Chekhov's greatest male roles. The opening night of the first production was a famous failure. Vera Komissarzhevskaya, playing Nina, was so intimidated by the hostility of the audience that she lost her voice. Chekhov left the audience and spent the last two acts behind the scenes. When supporters wrote to him that the production later became a success, he assumed that they were merely trying to be kind. When Konstantin Stanislavski, the seminal Russian theatre practitioner of the time, directed it in 1898 for his Moscow Art Theatre, the play was a triumph. Stanislavski's production became "one of the greatest events in the history of Russian theatre and one of the greatest new developments in the history of world drama". Pyotr Sorin is a retired senior civil servant in failing health at his country estate. His sister, actress Irina Arkadina, arrives at the estate for a brief vacation with her lover, the writer Boris Trigorin. Pyotr and his guests gather at an outdoor stage to see an unconventional play that Irina's son, Konstantin Treplev, has written and directed. The play-within-a-play features Nina Zarechnaya, a young woman who lives on a neighboring estate, as the "soul of the world" in a time far in the future. The play is Konstantin's latest attempt at creating a new theatrical form. It is a dense symbolist work. Irina laughs at the play, finding it ridiculous and incomprehensible; the performance ends prematurely after audience interruption and Konstantin storms off in humiliation. Irina does not seem concerned about her son, who has not found his way in the world. Although others ridicule Konstantin's drama, the physician Yevgeny Dorn praises him. Act I also sets up the play's various romantic triangles. The schoolteacher Semyon Medvedenko loves Masha, the daughter of the estate's steward Ilya Shamrayev and his wife Polina Andryevna. However, Masha is in love with Konstantin, who is in love with Nina, but Nina falls for Trigorin. Polina is in an affair with Yevgeny. When Masha tells Yevgeny about her longing for Konstantin, Yevgeny helplessly blames the lake for making everybody feel romantic.
Download or read book The World Set Free written by H. G. Wells and published by tredition. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Set Free - H. G. Wells - The World Set Free is a novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1914. Continuing a theme of Wells's work - that of the history of technological advancement by humans, The World Set Free tells of a war fought with the most destructive weapon the world has ever seen - an atomic bomb. The novel's solution to the threat of these weapons is a one world government. Set in motion by the King of Britain, very few of the leaders of the world resist, and those that do are defeated. Thereafter, there is a creation of a utopian society, and with atomic energy solving the problem of work, the vast majority of the population are artists. H. G. Wells knew a little about atomic physics from reading the works of scientists such as William Ramsay, Ernest Rutherford, and Frederick Soddy. Physicist Leó Szilárd read the book in 1932, the same year the neutron was discovered. Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is sometimes called the "father of science fiction. During his own lifetime, however, he was most prominent as a forward-looking, even prophetic social critic who devoted his literary talents to the development of a progressive vision on a global scale. A futurist, he wrote a number of utopian works and foresaw the advent of aircraft, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, satellite television and something resembling the World Wide Web. His science fiction imagined time travel, alien invasion, invisibility, and biological engineering. Brian Aldiss referred to Wells as the "Shakespeare of science fiction", while American writer Charles Fort referred to him as a "wild talent". Wells rendered his works convincing by instilling commonplace detail alongside a single extraordinary assumption per work – dubbed "Wells's law" – leading Joseph Conrad to hail him in 1898 as "O Realist of the Fantastic!". His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895), which was his first novel, The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898) and the military science fiction The War in the Air (1907). Wells was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.
Book Synopsis Indiscretions of Archie by : P. G. Wodehouse
Download or read book Indiscretions of Archie written by P. G. Wodehouse and published by tredition. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indiscretions of Archie - P. G. Wodehouse - Indiscretions of Archie is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 14 February 1921 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on 15 July 1921 by George H. Doran, New York. The book was adapted from a series of short stories, originally serialised in the Strand in the United Kingdom between March 1920 and February 1921, and, all except one, in Cosmopolitan in the United States between May 1920 and February 1921. The stories were rewritten and reorganised to create a more flowing novel form. Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. His creations include the feather-brained Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet, Jeeves; the immaculate and loquacious Psmith; Lord Emsworth and the Blandings Castle set; the Oldest Member, with stories about golf; and Mr Mulliner, with tall tales on subjects ranging from bibulous bishops to megalomaniac movie moguls. Born in Guildford, the third son of a British magistrate based in Hong Kong, Wodehouse spent happy teenage years at Dulwich College, to which he remained devoted all his life. After leaving school he was employed by a bank but disliked the work and turned to writing in his spare time. His early novels were mostly school stories, but he later switched to comic fiction. Most of Wodehouse's fiction is set in his native United Kingdom, although he spent much of his life in the US and used New York and Hollywood as settings for some of his novels and short stories. He wrote a series of Broadway musical comedies during and after the First World War, together with Guy Bolton and Jerome Kern, that played an important part in the development of the American musical. He began the 1930s writing for MGM in Hollywood. In a 1931 interview, his naive revelations of incompetence and extravagance in the studios caused a furore. In the same decade, his literary career reached a new peak. In 1934 Wodehouse moved to France for tax reasons; in 1940 he was taken prisoner at Le Touquet by the invading Germans and interned for nearly a year. After his release he made six broadcasts from German radio in Berlin to the US, which had not yet entered the war. The talks were comic and apolitical, but his broadcasting over enemy radio prompted anger and strident controversy in Britain, and a threat of prosecution. Wodehouse never returned to England. From 1947 until his death he lived in the US, taking dual British-American citizenship in 1955. He died in 1975, at the age of 93, in Southampton, New York.
Book Synopsis The Research Magnificent by : H. G. Wells
Download or read book The Research Magnificent written by H. G. Wells and published by tredition. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Research Magnificent - H. G. Wells - The Research Magnificent is a 1915 novel by H. G. Wells. William Porphyry Benham inherits a lot of money so that he doesn't have to work. He wants to live the 'aristocratic' life and the book follows his dogged pursuit of this idea. Along the way, this idea brings him into conflict with his mother, with his friend, and with his wife, Amanda, a young woman he loves passionately but then leaves behind in England to travel the world (India, Russia, China) in search of wisdom. Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is sometimes called the "father of science fiction. During his own lifetime, however, he was most prominent as a forward-looking, even prophetic social critic who devoted his literary talents to the development of a progressive vision on a global scale. A futurist, he wrote a number of utopian works and foresaw the advent of aircraft, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, satellite television and something resembling the World Wide Web. His science fiction imagined time travel, alien invasion, invisibility, and biological engineering. Brian Aldiss referred to Wells as the "Shakespeare of science fiction", while American writer Charles Fort referred to him as a "wild talent". Wells rendered his works convincing by instilling commonplace detail alongside a single extraordinary assumption per work – dubbed "Wells's law" – leading Joseph Conrad to hail him in 1898 as "O Realist of the Fantastic!". His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895), which was his first novel, The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898) and the military science fiction The War in the Air (1907). Wells was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.
