wells herbert george the sleeper awakes
Wells Herbert George The Sleeper Awakes
A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred years. During his centuries of slumber, however, investments are made that make him the richest and most powerful man on Earth. But when he comes out of his trance he is horrified to discover that the money accumulated in his name is being used to maintain a hierarchal society in which most are poor, and more than a third of all people are enslaved. Oppressed and uneducated, the masses cling desperately to one dream - that the sleeper will awake, and lead them all to freedom.
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Wells Herbert George When the Sleeper Wakes
Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, but he is now best remembered for his science fiction novels. "When the Sleeper Wakes" is a dystopian science fiction novel about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London where he has become the richest man in the world.
1036 Руб.
Wells Herbert George When the Sleeper Wakes
After his centuries-long slumber, the once insomniac Graham awakes into the nightmarish and unrecognizable London of 2100, capital of an all-powerful and oppressive state, governed by the White Council and funded by the wealth of the Sleeper himself.
1194 Руб.
Wells H. When the sleeper wakes = Когда спящий проснется: на англ.яз
Herbert George Wells (1866—1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, but he is now best remembered for his science fiction novels. "When the Sleeper Wakes" is a dystopian science fiction novel about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London where he has become the richest man in the world.
973 Руб.
Wells H. When the sleeper wakes = Когда спящий проснется: на англ.яз
Herbert George Wells (1866—1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, but he is now best remembered for his science fiction novels. "When the Sleeper Wakes" is a dystopian science fiction novel about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London where he has become the richest man in the world.
973 Руб.
Wells Herbert George Twelve Stories and a Dream
Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, but he is now best remembered for his science fiction novels. "Twelve Stories and a Dream" presents the readers with a variety of classic Wells' tales. The stories include: "Filmer", "The Magic Shop", "The Valley of Spiders" and many others, including "Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland" - the story of a man who finds his way into fairyland where a fairy queen tries to seduce him away from his human fiancee.
973 Руб.
Wells Herbert George The H. G. Wells Collection
Collected together here are seven of the most iconic novels of H. G. Wells, the father of science fiction himself. With each story, he presents a unique and exciting twist. In The Invisible Man, a scientist's experimentation with visibility goes disastrously wrong. The Time Machine features a traveller recounting his adventures into the future, and The Island of Doctor Moreau explores the terrifying boundaries of human and animal morality. Other stories included are The War of the Worlds, The First Men in the Moon, When the Sleeper Wakes and The World Set Free. This array of thrilling stories ranges from scenes of alien invasions to visions of dystopian futures.
2339 Руб.
Wells Herbert George The H. G. Wells Collection
This luxurious hardcover edition brings together the greatest works of H.G. Wells, featuring silver embossing, gilded page edges and beautifully designed end-papers. The War of the Worlds is Wells' classic tale of alien invasion. Following the travails of an unnamed narrator, it reveals the true terror of life under an implacable and enigmatic foe. The Time Machine is one of the earliest and most compelling stories of time travel ever written, as a Victorian scientist transports himself to the alien world of the far future where a sinister evil lurks beneath the surface. The Invisible Man tells the tale of a scientist who has found a way to make himself invisible. Freed from the constraints of the law and rejected from a society that fears him, Griffin descends into madness. Wells' disturbing and insightful novel explores the question of morality when a man is free to do as he pleases without risk of being caught... This Wibalin-bound volume makes the perfect gift or collectible, celebrating the 'father of science fiction' H.G. Wells.
5572 Руб.
Wells Herbert George The Time Machine
A brilliant scientist constructs a machine, which, with the pull of a lever, propels him to the year AD 802,701. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition of The Time Machine features an introduction by Dr Mark Bould. The Time Traveller finds himself in a verdant, seemingly idyllic landscape where he is greeted by the diminutive Eloi people. The Eloi are beautiful but weak and indolent, and the explorer is perplexed by their fear of the dark. He soon discovers the reason for their fear - the Eloi are not the only race to have inherited the earth. When his time machine disappears, the Time Traveller must descend alone into the subterranean tunnels of the Morlocks - a terrifying, carnivorous people who toil in darkness - to reclaim it.
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Wells Herbert George The Invisible Man
With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin - the new guest at The Coach and Horses - is at first assumed to be a shy accident-victim. But the true reason for his disguise is far more chilling: he has developed a process that has made him invisible, and is locked in a struggle to discover the antidote. Forced from the village, and driven to murder, he seeks the aid of an old friend, Kemp. The horror of his fate has affected his mind, however - and when Kemp refuse to help, he resolves to wreak his revenge. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
1823 Руб.
Wells Herbert George The Invisible Man
Совершив научное открытие, гениальный учёный Гриффин оказывается в западне: невидимость лишает его тепла человеческого общения, он вынужден голодать и скрывать новый облик, чтобы не стать шутом для простолюдинов. Попытка вернуть собственное лицо обнажает самые тёмные стороны натуры Гриффина: он начинает мечтать о богатстве, стремится к захвату власти и пытается совершить убийство. Но финал злодея-одиночки предсказуем: невидимость делает очевидными все пороки злого гения и приводит его к смерти. Текст сокращён и адаптирован. Уровень B1. Адаптация, сокращение и словарь: И. Б. Загородняя.
169 Руб.
Wells Herbert George The Invisible Man
Читателям предлагается полный, неадаптированный текст популярного научно-фантастического романа Герберта Уэллса "Человек-невидимка". Рекомендуется в качестве пособия для домашнего чтения.
182 Руб.
Herbert George Wells. The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man tells the story of Griffin, a brilliant and obsessed scientist dedicated to achieving invisibility. Taking whatever action is necessary to keep his incredible discovery safe, he terrorises the local village where he has sought refuge. Wells skilfully weaves the themes of science, terror and pride as the invisible Griffin gradually loses his sanity and, ultimately, his humanity.
553 Руб.
Wells Herbert George The Time Machine
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells 'Great shapes like big machines rose out of the dimness, and cast grotesque black shadows, in which dim spectral Morlocks sheltered from the glare' Chilling, prophetic and hugely influential, The Time Machine sees a Victorian scientist propel himself into the year 802,701 AD, where he is delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty and contentment in the form of the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man. But he soon realizes that they are simply remnants of a once-great culture - now weak and living in terror of the sinister Morlocks lurking in the deep tunnels, who threaten his very return home. H. G. Wells defined much of modern science fiction with this 1895 tale of time travel, which questions humanity, society, and our place on Earth. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
1342 Руб.
Wells Herbert George The Invisible Man
A cautionary horror story about the dangers of greed, isolation and a science without ethics, from the father of science fiction. The stranger arrives early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow. He is wrapped up from head to foot, and the brim of his hat hides every inch of his face. Rude and rough, the stranger works with strange apparatus locked in his room all day and walks along lonely lanes at night, his bandaged face inspiring fear in children and dogs. Is he the mutilated victim of an accident? A criminal on the run? An eccentric genius? But no-one in the village comes close to guessing who has come amongst them, or what those bandages hide. 'Wells was the founding father of science fiction, and in his utopian fantasy novels he was proved eerily correct' Daily Telegraph
1823 Руб.
Wells Herbert George The invisible man
Серия книг "Зарубежная классика - читай в оригинале" - это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков. Неадаптированное издание на английском языке.
478 Руб.