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The Moth

Author
H. G. Wells
Series
World Classics
Language
English
Length
20 pages
ISBN
9781787242043
Published
5 March 2017
Imprint
Fantastica
  • Science fiction
  • sci fi
  • h.g. wells
  • philosophy
  • adventure
  • action
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • time travel
  • future

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Entomologist Hapley has crushed rival Pawkins in print and conversation, and then the dead man's memory will not leave him alone. A moth becomes the instrument of a feud that outlives the laboratory: Hapley's triumph turns to haunting as science and spite share the same room. Nerves fray among specimen cases until the insect will not be explained away. Wells's short tale of rivalry that refuses to stay buried.

Author

H. G. Wells (1866–1946) was born in Bromley, trained in biology under Huxley, and turned that laboratory habit into fiction. The Time Machine sent a Victorian into deep time; The War of the Worlds brought the sky down on the Home Counties. He wrote as if the future were a social problem with monsters attached. The novels argue while they entertain. A draper's son who made scientific romance a public language.

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