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by H.G. Wells, Герберт Уеллс

Zachariah Wells (born 1976) is a Canadian poet, critic, essayist and editor. Born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, he grew up in the rural community of Hazel Grove. Wells attended high school in Ottawa, Ontario and university in Halifax, Nova Scotia. As an undergraduate, he spent summers working in Iqaluit, Nunavut as an airline cargo handler. After a brief stint at graduate school in Montreal, Quebec, he returned to Iqaluit in 2001 and later that year transferred to the remote settlement of Resolute, on Cornwallis Island, where he worked until 2003, when he moved to Halifax with his wife, Rachel Lebowitz. At this point he started contributing book reviews and essays on Canadian poetry to periodicals including Books in Canada, Quill & Quire and Maisonneuve. In the spring of 2004, his first chapbook of poems, Fool's Errand, appeared. In the fall of that year, Toronto's Insomniac Press published his full-length collection of Arctic poems, Unsettled, under Paul Vermeersch's 4 AM Books imprint. In 2004, Wells started working for Via Rail Canada as a service attendant. In 2006 he became the Reviews Editor for Canadian Notes & Queries. In 2007, after moving to Vancouver, he published Sealift, a CD recording of 24 poems from Unsettled; "Achromatope," a letterpress broadside; and After the Blizzard, a limited edition chapbook. In the spring of 2008, Jailbreaks, his anthology of Canadian sonnets, was published. Anything But Hank!, the children's book he co-wrote with Lebowitz, with illustrations by Eric Orchard, was published in the fall. In 2009, after moving back to Halifax, Wells published Track & Trace, his second trade collection of poems, with illustrations by renowned graphic artist Seth. Track & Trace was shortlisted for the 2010 Atlantic Poetry Prize. In 2010, he published The Essential Kenneth Leslie, the first collection of Leslie's poems to be published since 1972.

Genres: Short Stories, Science Fiction, Classics, Fiction, Adventure, 19th Century, Audiobook

38 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1894

About the author

Herbert George Wells was born to a working class family in Kent, England. Young Wells received a spotty education, interrupted by several illnesses and family difficulties, and became a draper's apprentice as a teenager. The headmaster of Midhurst Grammar School, where he had spent a year, arranged for him to return as an "usher," or student teacher. Wells earned a government scholarship in 1884, to study biology under Thomas Henry Huxley at the Normal School of Science. Wells earned his bachelor of science and doctor of science degrees at the University of London. After marrying his cousin, Isabel, Wells began to supplement his teaching salary with short stories and freelance articles, then books, including The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898).

Wells created a mild scandal when he divorced his cousin to marry one of his best students, Amy Catherine Robbins. Although his second marriage was lasting and produced two sons, Wells was an unabashed advocate of free (as opposed to "indiscriminate") love. He continued to openly have extra-marital liaisons, most famously with Margaret Sanger, and a ten-year relationship with the author Rebecca West, who had one of his two out-of-wedlock children. A one-time member of the Fabian Society, Wells sought active change. His 100 books included many novels, as well as nonfiction, such as A Modern Utopia (1905), The Outline of History (1920), A Short History of the World (1922), The Shape of Things to Come (1933), and The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind (1932). One of his booklets was Crux Ansata, An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church. Although Wells toyed briefly with the idea of a "divine will" in his book, God the Invisible King (1917), it was a temporary aberration. Wells used his international fame to promote his favorite causes, including the prevention of war, and was received by government officials around the world. He is best-remembered as an early writer of science fiction and futurism.

He was also an outspoken socialist. Wells and Jules Verne are each sometimes referred to as "The Fathers of Science Fiction". D. 1946.

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Reviews

[Dr. Appu Sasidharan (Dasfill) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Do you have the power to chastise an animal according to your will, especially in a place where there is no law and order?

Is clemency deserting us in this rat race to become numero uno? These are the questions that will never lose their relevance. The author subtly chronicles this topic through this exciting story.

This is the story of a man who is drifting in the Indian Ocean with three strange eggs. The eggs are those of Aepyornis, an extinct bird. He decides to eat the eggs after he reaches a deserted island due to severe hunger.

Until this point, I felt this book has a lot of similarities to Robinson Crusoe. The readers are in for a big surprise as the biologist hidden in the author kicks in.

My favorite three lines from this book.

"'I drifted ten days,' said the man with the scar. 'It's a little thing in the telling, isn't it? Every day was like the last. Except in the morning and the evening, I never kept a lookout even the blaze was so infernal. I didn't see a sail after the first three days, and those I saw took no notice of me."

“I told him straight that I didn't mean to be chased about a desert island by any damned anachronisms.”

"I amused myself, too, by decorating the island with designs worked in sea−urchins and fancy shells of various kinds. I put AEPYORNIS ISLAND all around the place very nearly, in big letters, like what you see done with colored stones at railway stations in the old country, and mathematical calculations and drawings of various sorts."

I was surprised that I never heard about this book before, especially as the author was able to write such a fascinating story even a century before authors like Michael Crichton thought about writing his best-seller on this topic.

This book has many interesting hidden themes that will pique your interest. You can read it in two different ways as it has two distinct layers. The first way is like a good exciting adventure book. The second is that of a philosophical book, if you can imbibe the philosophical musings hidden between the lines of the author's cogent writing skills.


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[Karla · Rating 3 out of 5]

Story 3 stars**
Audio 3.5 stars**
Narrator James Gillies

[Manuel Alfonseca · Rating 3 out of 5]

ENGLISH: This short story, first published in 1894, shows that Wells was originally specialized in biology. The last but one paragraph of this story left an indeleble mark on me, and I have mentioned it often in my classes, as it is a good summary of something that has happened frequently in Paleontology.

ESPAÑOL: Este cuento, publicado por primera vez en 1894, demuestra que Wells estaba originalmente especializado en biología. El penúltimo párrafo del cuento me dejó una huella indeleble, y lo he mencionado con frecuencia en mis clases, ya que es un buen resumen de algo que ha sucedido frecuentemente en Paleontología.

[Devero · Rating 4 out of 5]

Notevole questo racconto di Wells.
Su un'isola corallina, un esploratore inglese, ferocemente razzista, superbo e per nulla sprovveduto rinviene delle uova di aepyornis, di cui si conoscono le ossa come di un uccello aptero enorme, più degli emù e dei nandù. Ha alterchi con gli indigeni che lo aiutano nella spedizione, li uccide, vaga fino a un altro atollo dove l'uovo di schiude e lui vive di pesca con questo enorme uccello che gli cresce a fianco per quasi quattro anni finché questi non cerca di farlo fuori. Quindi si deve difendere e alla fine lo ucciderà a malincuore. Narrerà anni dopo questa incredibile storia a un giovane esploratore.
4 stelle

[Shaimaa أحمد · Rating 2 out of 5]

هذه القصة تماثل قصة السندباد البحري و طائر الرخ

إلا أن قصة السندباد البحري ألطف و اجمل و أعمق

[Abeer Abdelhamid · Rating 4 out of 5]

قصة فصيرة عن مستكشف وجدا عدد من البيض لطائر انقرض من اكثر من ربعمائة عام وكيف حاول الحفاظ عليهم حتى يصل الى موطنه ولكنه خسر البعض منه واكل بعضا منه مضطرا ولكنه استطاع الحفاظ على بيضة حتى انها فقست طائرا عملاقا
وكيف تعامل معه
القصة مسلية

[Matt · Rating 4 out of 5]

Prokleta ptičurina

[K. Anna Kraft · Rating 3 out of 5]

I arranged my thoughts on this short story into a haiku:

"Quick to one's temper,
Baser reactions induce
A beastly response."

[John Yelverton · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a very interesting little short story about a man who finds an egg from an extinct creature, and hatches it, much to his delight and then chagrin.

[Tom · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5⭐

A fascinating story narrated by an individual who starts a conversation with a scarred man Butcher who tells him of his quest searching for rare eggs and who then spends two years alone with an extinct, flightless bird that's hatched from one of the eggs he has found which was larger than Aepyornis maximus, an extinct flightless bird that lived in Madagascar. In the story H. G. Wells has scientists give it the (fictional) scientific name Aepyornis vastus.


Aepyornis maximus skeleton and egg

[Beatrice Drury · Rating 4 out of 5]

A marooned man whose only companion is a bird hatched from an egg over 300 years old. I read this as nothing but a little adventure yarn. I was surprised to find the bird was a real creature that went extinct in the 1700's.

[Mark · Rating 4 out of 5]

A bit of light relief after finishing ‘ The Island of Dr Moreau’. - a castaway on an atoll hatches a dinosaur from an egg he found buried in a bog. All’s well between man and aepyornis until they don’t catch enough to eat. Hunger trumps friendship!

[Kakha · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a charming little story, after reading which you feel keen desire to read the the big, extensive stories of this amazing author.

[Dave · Rating 3 out of 5]

Intriguing!

[Elizabeth de Moya · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked the big bird.

[Darshna Rekha · Rating 4 out of 5]

I wanted to know more about the bird. It was intriguing.

[Cheryl · Rating 3 out of 5]

Short, weird, but clever, punchy, amusing... a fair intro. for ppl. who aren't aware how good Wells could be at either short stories or humor. Probably my least favorite of the shorts by Wells.

[Tim Suchowski · Rating 4 out of 5]

Crazy how often a story of 10 pages made me laugh. Also the conncetion to the bird got really relatable for such a short amount of input. Goood one!

[حسام · Rating 3 out of 5]

قصة رائعة عن ال��غامرة والاستكشاف والنجاة والطبيعة البشرية ...

[Lia · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5, I'm not sure if this was my cup of tea or not... :/
I might have to read one more time.

[Norman Howe · Rating 4 out of 5]

The protagonist in this story has poor people skills, and definitely no understanding of animal psychology.

[Oliver Blue · Rating 3 out of 5]

62

A solid short story with an incredible final line but it’s a little too brief to make an impact for me.

[Mae H · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really like how this story warns against owning wild animals.

[Matthew Bee · Rating 3 out of 5]

RIP bird he just wanted a fish :(((

[Amrendra · Rating 4 out of 5]

A 1898 story - part of a book I read long ago - titled 'Adventure Stories'

[Juancha · Rating 3 out of 5]

Relato corto de un hombre en una isla con un ave extinta. Es entretenido.

[for-much-deliberation ... · Rating 4 out of 5]

What would happen if you're stranded on an island with some prehistoric animal...