H.G.威尔斯(Herbert George Wells 1866-1946),英国著名作家、奇人,一生著作等身,经历奇绝,尤以科幻小说和通俗历史读物的创作获得世界性声誉和影响。1895年,威尔斯出版《时间机器》,一举而成名,此后接连推出《莫洛博士岛》、《隐身人》、《星际战争》等书,为20世纪科幻小说的创作立一高标。据说,二战期间,爱因斯坦等科学家提醒罗斯福总统起动生产原子弹的曼哈顿计划,当初也是源自威尔斯的一部叫做《获得自由的世界》的科幻小说。
H. G. WELLS ,(1866-1946)English novelist, journalist, sociologist, andhistorian, whose science fiction stories have been filmed many times. H.G. Wells's best-known works are The Time Machine (1895), one of the first modem science fiction stories. TheInvisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds(1898). Wells wrote over a hundred of books,about fifty of them novels. Wells also wrote nonfiction. His best-sellingthree-volume work, The Outline of History(1920), began a new era of popularized worldhistory. It received a mixed critical responsefrom professional historians. Many otherauthors followed with Outlines of their own inother subjects. Wells reprised his Outline in1922 with a much shorter popular work, A ShortHistory of the World.
【目录】
I. THE WORLD IN SPACE
II. THE WORLD IN TIME
III. THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE
IV. THE AGE OF FISHES
V. THE AGE OF THE COAL SWAMPS
VI. THE AGE OF REPTILES
VII. THE FIRST BIRDS AND THE FIRST MAMMALS
VIII. THE AGE OF MAMMALS
IX. MONKEYS, APES AND SUB-MEN
X. THE NEANDERTHALER AND THE RHODESIAN MAN
XI. THE FIRST TRUE MEN
XII. PRIMITIVE THOUGHT
XIII. THE BEGINNINGS OF CULTIVATION
XIV. PRIMITIVE NEOLITHIC CIVILIZATIONS
XV. SUMERIA, EARLY EGYPT AND WRITING
XVI. PRIMITIVE NOMADIC PEOPLES
XVII. THE FIRST SEA-GOING PEOPLES
XVIII. EGYPT, BABYLON AND ASSYRIA
XIX. THE PRIMITIVE ARYANS
XX. THE LAST BABYLONIAN EMPIRE AND THE EMPIRE OF DARIUS I
XXI. THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE JEWS
XXII. PRIESTS AND PROPHETS IN JUDEA
XXIII. THE GREEKS
XXIV. THE WARS OF THE GREEKS AND PERSIANS
XXV. THE SPLENDOUR OF GREECE
XXVI. THE EMPIRE OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT
XXVII. THE MUSEUM AND LIBRARY AT ALEXANDRIA
XXVIII. THE LIFE OF GAUTAMA BUDDHA
XXIX. KING ASOKA
XXX. CONFUCIUS AND LAO TSE
XXXI. ROME COMES INTO HISTORY
XXXII. ROME AND CARTHAGE
XXXIII. THE GROWTH OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
XXXIV. BETWEEN ROME AND CHINA
XXXV. THE COMMON MAN'S LIFE UNDER THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE
XXXVI. RELIGIOUS DEVELOPMENTS UNDER THE ROMAN EMPIRE
XXXVII. THE TEACHING OF JESUS
XXXVIII. THE DEVELOPMENT OF DOCTRINAL CHRISTIANITY
XXXIX. THE BARBARIANS BREAK THE EMPIRE INTO EAST AND WEST
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