"NO one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water."
IF, like us, you're a fan of H. G. Wells (the fictioneer, not the self-appointed savior), then you'll be interested in what Roy Glashan has done to Wells's The War of the Worlds; he has greatly enhanced the text by embellishing it with more than 190 contemporary illos:
"Production Note: This e-book edition of The War of the Worlds includes most of the illustrations that Warwick Goble drew for the version of the book published in Pearson's Magazine, and all of the illustrations drawn by Henrique Alvim Corrêa for the 1906 French edition."
It's well worth a look; go (HERE) for the HTML version and (HERE) for access to the EPUB version. The portal to RGL's complete Wells collection is (HERE).
Resources:
- It has been nearly a decade since we first highlighted three of Wells's best-known works: The Time Machine (1895), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898) (HERE).
- You can also find links to three contemporaneous articles about Wells (HERE), one (HERE), one reacting to The Time Machine (HERE), one about Wells's trial run of The Time Machine called The Chronic Argonauts (HERE), and two of his rare crime stories (HERE).
Unless otherwise noted, all bibliographical data are derived from The FictionMags Index created by William G. Contento & edited by Phil Stephensen-Payne.
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