The Star

The Star by H. G. Wells is presented in a clean English digital edition with active navigation. The book belongs to classics and preserves the character of the source text for sustained ebook reading. The opening pages establish the work's atmosphere with this first movement: It was on the first day of the new year that the announcement was made, almost simultaneously from three observatories, that the motion of the planet Neptune, the outermost of all the planets that wheel about the sun, had become very erratic. Ogilvy had already called attention to a suspected retardation in its velocit. Detected sections include: Chapter 1. This edition is prepared for a fluent reading experience with clear typography and no extraneous promotional material.