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Another H.G. Wells classic sci fi. The novel tells the story of a journey to the moon by the impecunious businessman Mr. Bedford and the brilliant but eccentric scientist Dr. Cavor. Bedford bankrupt businessman who is making a comeback by writing a play, through a series of circumstances, teams up with Professor Cavor a recluse scientist who does not realize his own potential. Together they build a contraption, sphere, that can cut off gravity waves. Once on the moon Bedfor...

A fictional biography of Rudolf „Rud” Whitlow, who builds a political party that slowly becomes a world dominant dictatorship. Wells wrote the work just before World War II as Hitler was consolidating his power in Germany. Rud, is a baby boy, and later, grew to be a young man who had a remarkable talent of oratory: the gift of gab. He is eventually encouraged to perform public speaking, lecturing and finally, revolutionary speeches. Through this character, Wells creates a p...

Czas szybko leci. Tak naprawdę sama nie zauważyłam, kiedy stałam się dorosła. A tu tymczasem już moja podopieczna, Ala, z uroczej dziewczynki zmienia się w zbuntowaną nastolatkę i wykręca różne numery. Martwię się o nią! Czy będę potrafiła pomóc jej przejść przez ten trudny czas? Czy ona będzie chciała skorzystać z moich rad?W szkole… jak to w szkole… raz lepiej, raz gorzej. A tu matura na karku, o czym wszyscy nam ciągle przypominają. Największe problemy mam z chemią. Na dod...

Kochani, serce bije mi jak oszalałe, ale muszę to wyznać: to już ostatnie kartki z pamiętnika. Tyle wspólnych zwierzeń, tyle chwil smutku, radości i nadziei. Będzie mi ich brakować. Ale cóż, coś się kończy, coś się zaczyna…W ostatniej części „Pamiętnika Nastolatki” każda z bohaterek chce wam koniecznie coś powiedzieć na do widzenia: Pojawiła się w moim i Maksyma życiu nowa, niezwykła osoba. Zostaliśmy rodzicami!Natalia U mnie także niezwykle intensywny czas. Os...

„The Brothers – A Story.” Herbert George Wells was a prolific English writer who wrote in a variety of genres, including the novel, politics, history, and social commentary. Wells returned to a literary genre in which he had always excelled: the satire written in the form of an allegory. In a land torn apart by civil war, Bolaris was fiercely loyal to the Strong Men. So when Number Four informed him that Ratzel, leader of the enemy, had been captured, it was naturally a cau...

This story was the first work of fiction in which an explorer traverses time through the use of a man-made device – a time machine – rather than through magic, divine intervention, or a natural phenomenon such as sleep. HG Wells’s „The Chronic Argonauts”, written seven years before his much more famous time travel work, „The Time Machine”. The mysterious Dr. Moses Nebogipfel arrives in a small Welsh town in 1887. The apprehensions of the simple rural folk eventually cause t...

Wells’s treatise on education is set in the region of Camford (Cambridge/Oxford), and tells of a visitor who proves that education can save the world from destruction. The story centres around a Utopian ’ventriloquist’ who subjects human life and in particular its treatment by the University of Camford to sympathetic but quite unsparing scrutiny. At its core, it was a warning to the educational world of imminent war and of its lack of action, as well as an exploration of th...

„The Bulpington of Blup”, a 1932 novel by H. G. Wells, is a character study analyzing the psychological sources of resistance to Wellsian ideology, and was influenced by Wells’s acquaintance with Carl Gustav Jung and his ideas. Theodore Bulpington is a very ordinary man – with a very vivid imagination. Ill at ease with himself, he sees a way to recreate his identity by adding layer upon layer of deception. This he does with such panache that eventually he becomes an imposto...

A soul-corrupting evil invades the remote English village of Cainsmarsh, infesting the minds of the local residents. Dark events are plaguing its people. An elderly woman stiffens in dread at her own shadow; a terrified farmer murders a scarecrow; food prepared by others is eyed with suspicion; family pets are bludgeoned to death; loving couples are devoured by rage and violence. People are becoming suspicious of every move each other makes. Children are coming to school wi...

„The Dream” by H.G Wells follows the character, Sarnac, who lives a whole other life as Harry Mortimer Smith. Sarnac is at the height of his career as a scientist by discovering new research. Sarnac goes with his friends including his girlfriend, Sunray to escape for the holidays. Little does Sarnac know that he would be dreaming a whole new life as a different person. His dream world is peculiar rules and what is socially acceptable than reality. The roles of each member i...

Mr. Parham is a university academic of the traditional, classical sort, very much a snob and unhappy with many of the social trends of the time. Sir Bussy Woodcock is a self-made millionaire of sharp intelligence and great energy but lowly beginnings and no cultural education. This unlikely pair meet by chance and form an intermittent relationship. In an attempt to foster this acquaintance that goes on for six years, Mr. Parham finds himself involved in séances that summon ...

The story centers on Joseph Davis, a popular writer of romanticized histories, who comes to believe that some people differ fundamentally from most of us. They are more rational, possibly more talented and intelligent. His wife has increasingly become a stranger, the imminent birth of his first child has left him in a panicked state, and his rosy-tinted histories have lately begun to strike him as so much bosh. And then he overhears a conversation at his Planetarium Club, i...

„In the Days of the Comet” is set in early 20th century England and covers Willie, a socialist who is angry and frustrated with everything to do with the world he lives in. The only thing Willie finds beautiful and tranquil is the love of his life, Nettie. The story follows Willie and his lust for Nettie as he finds himself perplexed by what the love of his life decides to do. The comet is referred back to quite often and eventually, when it hits, it brings some sort of cle...

Stella has it all – looks, intelligence and an undergraduate place at Cambridge, not to mention Gemini, her fervent admirer at Oxford. Stella and Gemini, the two babes of the story, come increasingly under the influence of a rather impressive psycho-therapeutist whose groundbreaking theories capture their imaginations. But when tragedy strikes they are soon to learn that intellectualism brings cold comfort. When James is disowned by his wrathful relatives, he goes to Russia...

H.G Wells wrote many tales of adventure and exploration, which were fascinating to early twentieth century readers as transportation to faraway lands was so difficult back then. Wells’ „Modern Utopia” was first published in 1905. It set the scene for many modern, scientific utopias and dystopias. The story is set on a planet very like earth. The Utopian Planet differs from earth in that the inhabitants have created a perfect society. Two men, the narrator and his colleague ...

Ze wstępem Andrzeja Stasiuka i posłowiem Adama Pomorskiego Jeden z najwybitniejszych tekstów Płatonowa i w nowym znakomitym przekładzie Adama Pomorskiego. Andriej Płatonow jest dziś stawiany obok Tołstoja, Czechowa, Szołochowa czy Bułhakowa. Ale gdy powstawały jego książki – wywrotowe, ponuro prześmiewcze, obnażające absurd aparatu władzy i dogmatów – nie mogły się odbić szerokim echem. Sam Stalin doprowadził do zakazu ich publikacji. Z tego powodu ukończony w 1930 ro...

Przed czterdziestu laty pozaziemski wirus stworzył obdarzone nadludzkimi możliwościami istoty znane jako asowie i dżokerzy. Od tej pory toczą one walkę o swe prawa i szacunek Akcja szóstego tomu cyklu Dzikie karty  rozgrywa się podczas konwencji prezydenckiej Partii Demokratycznej w Atlancie. W centrum konferencyjnym Omni panuje groza. Fanatyczny przywódca religijny pragnie pozbawić dzikie karty wszelkich praw, a ukryty as władający potężną mocą zamierza wpłynąć na wynik...

Maciek założył bloga, gdzie dzieli się swoimi przemyśleniami na temat dzisiejszych gimnazjalistów, miesiączkowania pingwinów cesarskich i muzyki rockowej. Patryk jest otwarty na ludzi mniej więcej tak, jak katolicy na twórczość zespołu Behemoth. Gra na basie w najznakomitszej kapeli punkowej w dziejach wszechświata i jest najwidoczniej trochę głupi, bo zamiast podejść i zagadać do dziewczyny śledzi ją, stalkuje i wymienia wiadomości na fejsie. Maciek poznaje Patryka, co...

Dwie kobiety, jedna decyzja i historia, która poruszy serce każdej czytelniczki. Dagmara po śmierci matki otrzymuje w spadku nie tylko prowadzoną przez nią przez wiele lat Księgarnię pod Flisakiem, ale również list, z którego dowiaduje się, że została adoptowana. Po rozwodzie postanawia wraz z dziećmi przeprowadzić się do rodzinnego Torunia i przejąć księgarnię. Tylko jak zrealizować marzenia w nowym życiu, gdy dopada nas stare? Znana pisarka Bożena Zawistowska jako mło...

A novel told in first person by a human abducted mind,describing the world of the ancient alien strange civilization,a world of amazing colossal partial underground costructions that persisted buried for eons. The Shadow Out of Time is the story of Professor of Economics Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee who faints one day in the middle of a lecture and regains consciousness five years later only to find that he–or some entity inhabiting his body–has been pursuing eccentric researc...

Lovecraft has proven that he is a master of descriptive writing that creates a sense of mystery, atmosphere, and dismay. On an expedition to Antarctica, Professor William Dyer and his colleagues discover the remains of ancient half-vegetable, half-animal life-forms. The extremely early date in the geological strata is surprising because of the highly-evolved features found in these previously unknown life-forms. Through a series of dark revelations, violent episodes, and mi...

The Sea-Wolf is Jack London’s journey deep into the heart of darkness and madness that each person carries within themselves. It is the story of a Danish youth named Humphrey „Hump” van Weyden and his struggles against the sea, as well as his own inner demons. Humphrey Van Weyden is a gentleman, and academic, who has lived a soft life among civilized, like-minded people. He is on a steemer to visit a friend. On this trip, a fog settles and the ship gets struck and sinks. Mr...