Incisive, comic and oddly prophetic, The Stolen Bacillus, And Other Incidents gathers H. G. Wellss earliest short fiction into a concentrated study of modern anxieties. Peculiar devices upset polite society. Across this short story anthology, Wells compresses clever premises into compact narratives that probe scientific curiosity, social manners and the uneasy intersection between them. These are victorian science fiction stories in the truest sense classic speculative fiction that combines brisk storytelling with satirical social commentary, sketches of early science experiments, and quirky inventions tales that reveal how invention disturbed everyday life in the late nineteenth century. The London Victorian era is present not as wallpaper but as a living pressure class, commerce and curiosity collide, and the result is a set of imaginative exercises that reward both casual readers seeking lively invention and devoted readers of H. G. Wells stories who follow the development of modern speculative thought. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. Historically important as some of Wellss formative work, these pieces record the experimental pulse of a writer responding to scientific advance and social change their influence helped shape later strands of classic British literature and the evolving language of...

Binding: Paperback;320 pages; Publisher: Alpha Editions; Classification: N/A; Weight: 592.19 g; Dimensions: N/A

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