{"product_id":"the-plattner-story-and-others-9798889421528","title":"The Plattner Story and Others","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): H. G. Wells\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Indoeuropeanpublishing.com\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Indoeuropeanpublishing.com\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Fantasy - Collections \u0026amp; Anthologies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Plattner Story and Others is a collection of short stories written by H. G. Wells\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCONTENTS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Plattner Story \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Argonauts of the Air \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the Abyss \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Apple \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnder the Knife \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Sea Raiders \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePollock and the Porroh Man \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Red Room \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Cone \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Purple Pileus \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Jilting of Jane \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn The Modern Vein: An Unsympathetic Love Story \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Catastrophe \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Lost Inheritance \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Sad Story of a Dramatic Critic \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Slip Under the Microscope \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Reconciliation \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy First Aeroplane \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLittle Mother up the Morderberg \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Story of the Last Trump \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Grisly Folk \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the author: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHerbert George Wells (21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography and autobiography. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and has been called the \"father of science fiction.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn addition to his fame as a writer, he was prominent in his lifetime as a forward-looking, even prophetic social critic who devoted his literary talents to the development of a progressive vision on a global scale. A futurist, he wrote a number of utopian works and foresaw the advent of aircraft, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, satellite television and something resembling the World Wide Web. His science fiction imagined time travel, alien invasion, invisibility, and biological engineering before these subjects were common in the genre. Brian Aldiss referred to Wells as the \"Shakespeare of science fiction\", while Charles Fort called him a \"wild talent\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWells rendered his works convincing by instilling commonplace detail alongside a single extraordinary assumption per work - dubbed \"Wells's law\" - leading Joseph Conrad to hail him in 1898 with \"O Realist of the Fantastic!\". His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895), which was his first novel, The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898), the military science fiction The War in the Air (1907), and the dystopian When the Sleeper Wakes (1910). Novels of social realism such as Kipps (1905) and The History of Mr Polly (1910), which describe lower-middle-class English life, led to the suggestion that he was a worthy successor to Charles Dickens, but Wells described a range of social strata and even attempted, in Tono-Bungay (1909), a diagnosis of English society as a whole. Wells was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWells's earliest specialised training was in biology, and his thinking on ethical matters took place in a Darwinian context. He was also an outspoken socialist from a young age, often (but not always, as at the beginning of the First World War) sympathising with pacifist views. In his later years, he wrote less fiction and more works expounding his political and social views, sometimes giving his profession as that of journalist. Wells was a diabetic and co-founded the charity The Diabetic Association (known today as Diabetes UK) in 1934. (wikipedia.org)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46447246016663,"sku":"9798889421528","price":1589.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798889421528.webp?v=1769139847","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-plattner-story-and-others-9798889421528","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}