H G Wells Der Krieg Der Welten

Author : H G Wells
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781728771663
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book The War of the Worlds (Annotated) written by H G Wells and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-10-13 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: annotations This book is unique because it contains: -a literary criticism when analyzing and reading the entire book elaborated by Lina MedinaLiterary criticism of the book: The War of the WorldsMars is an old acquaintance of mankind, documented from Ancient Egypt more than 3,500 years ago. But it was after the invention of the telescope in the seventeenth century that astronomers began to understand that this planet shared much in common with ours, such as polar ice caps, winters and summers, and a physiognomy that could easily be interpreted as a version of Earth turned red and therefore, with its seas and continents. How can we not imagine that on the other side of the space there would also be someone watching us?In the 19th century, even reputed scientists admitted the possibility of life on Mars, imagined as a minor twin of Earth. Thus, it was not shocking that when, on August 2, 1894, the journal Nature published a brief article reporting a strange "luminous projection" on the border between light and shadow on the surface of Mars, the anonymous author of the text suggested that the This phenomenon would rekindle "the old idea that the Martians are signaling us."The British biologist and author of 'The war of the worlds', Herbert George Wells.That article did not go unnoticed by a young writer, a British biologist named Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 - August 13, 1946) who followed with interest the advances of his time. According to OpenMind tells the professor emeritus of International History of the Kingston University of London (United Kingdom) Peter Beck, author of the new book The War of the Worlds: From HG Wells to Orson Welles, Jeff Wayne, Steven Spielberg and Beyond (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016), in October 1888 Wells participated in a student debate in which he defended the idea that "there were all the reasons to suppose that the surface of Mars was occupied by living beings."Add to this the impression that Wells had produced the industrial landscape of the foundries of Staffordshire and a conversation he had with his brother about a hypothetical alien invasion; The result of this cocktail was The War of the Worlds (1898), in which Wells allowed himself the petty evil of killing his Woking neighbors in "painful and eccentric" ways, he wrote in a letter. In the novel, the lights described in Nature, actually an optical effect, were the flashes of the huge cannon that fired the Martian ships towards Earth.Some of the covers with which appeared the work 'The war of the worlds'. Credit: Wikimedia CommonsThe war of the worlds has lasted until today as the paradigmatic novel of the alien invasion. And the truth is that, for the vision of the time, there was a reason for so much hostility: envy of our warm and humid world on the part of the inhabitants of a dying planet. The astronomer Percival Lowell postulated the existence of artificial channels on Mars, built to irrigate their great deserts with their dwindling water reserves. Lowell relied on the observations of the Italian Giovanni Schiaparelli, who had described rectilinear formations on Mars. In his novel, Wells mentioned Schiaparelli, but not Lowell; the invasion of the war of the worlds was not motivated by desertification, but by the progressive cooling of Mars. But had Wells read Lowell? "I understand that there is still debate about it," says Beck.