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Klasyczna powieść science fiction, kilkakrotnie ekranizowana (m.in. przez Stevena Spielberga), a w roku 1938 przerobiona przez Orsona Wellesa na słuchowisko radiowe, którego emisja przeszła do historii. Głównym bohaterem jest nieznany z imienia pisarz i filozof, mieszkający w niewielkim miasteczku na południu Anglii, który opisuje swe losy podczas inwazji groźnych przybyszy z Marsa. Wells w swym dziele ukazuje nie tylko techniczne aspekty starcia dwóch cywilizacji, ale stawia...

W wyniku eksperymentu Griffin staje się niewidzialny. Chcąc ukryć swój stan, szalony naukowiec owija się bandażem, lecz wywołuje tym niepokój mieszkańców wioski, do której przybywa, aby pracować nad odwróceniem procesu. Pragnie znów stać się normalnym człowiekiem, a zarazem wykorzystać swój wynalazek i zdobyć fortunę. Niestety kolejne próby nic nie dają, a sfrustrowany Griffin zaczyna terroryzować mieszkańców...

„Wehikuł czasu”, powieść science fiction Herberta George’a Wellsa, opowiada o naukowcu, któremu udało się skonstruować maszynę do przenoszenia się w czasie. Dzięki niej odbywa podróż do odległej przyszłości. Na Ziemi żyją wtedy dwie rasy – Ejolowie, mieszkający na powierzchni, oraz Morlokowie, zamieszkujący podziemia. Odkrycie skłania naukowca do refleksji nad kolejami ludzkiej ewolucji.

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 ...

This story is essentially the history of the opening and of the realisation of the Great War as it happened to one small group of people in Essex, and more particularly as it happened to one human brain. „Mr. Britling Sees It Through” begins with a lighthearted account of an American visiting England for the first time, but the outbreak of war changes everything. Day by day and month by month, Wells chronicles the unfolding events and public reaction as witnessed by the inh...

Depicting one man’s transformation and descent into brutality, H.G. Wells’s „The Invisible Man” is a riveting exploration of science’s power to corrupt. In this tale of psychological terror, a young scientist must live in the personal hell created by his own experiments. Using himself as the subject, the scientist discovers the key to invisibility; yet, he is unable to reverse the results. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but begins to become mentally ...

Towards the end of his career, Wells write this book, in which he outlined his vision of Utopia. This is the story of a Mr. Barnstaple, an everyday man, who finds himself propelled into a parallel universe with a group of famous politicians, aristocrats, and their chauffeurs. The world they find themselves in has abolished all disease, and everyone only works at what takes their fancy. The inhabitants of this world speak telepathically, and recognise that the Earth is curre...

„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...

„Niewidzialny człowiek” to powieść fantastyczna autorstwa Herberta George’a Wellsa. Utwór ukazał się w 1897 roku.Książka opowiada o perypetiach szalonego naukowca, który pod wpływem swoich odkryć, stał się niewidzialny. Przybywa on do wioski, w której rodzi strach i niepokój mieszkańców. Próbuje stać się na powrót widzialnym, lecz nie może tego dokonać. Ukrywa się pod grubą warstwą ubrań nawet w upalne dni, tak żeby ukryć swoją niewidzialność.

Senna atmosfera gospody leżącej na prowincji Anglii zostaje zaburzona pojawieniem się tajemniczego mężczyzny. Ma ciemne okulary i zabandażowaną głowę, co każe właścicielom gospody przypuszczać, że został dotkliwie poparzony. Gość wynajmuje bezterminowo jeden z pokoi. Dopóki opłaty uiszczane są na czas, gospodarze zachowują dyskrecję, ignorując ekscentrycznego mężczyznę. Problem pojawia się, gdy pieniędzy zaczyna brakować. Wierzyciele dostają się do pokoju, w którym mężczyzna ...

"Gość z zaświatów" autorstwa Herberta George’a Wellsa to fascynująca opowieść o zderzeniu dwóch światów – ludzkiego i nadprzyrodzonego. Pewnego wieczoru mieszkańcy Sidderford stają się świadkami niecodziennego zjawiska – tajemniczego meteoru, który przynosi na Ziemię niezwykłego gościa. Anioł, którego obecność budzi skrajne emocje, zmaga się z nieufnością miejscowych. Wells, jeden z ojców science fiction, tworzy wciągającą historię pełną refleksji, idealną dla fanów literatur...

The novel tells the prophetic story of man’s harnessing of the newly-discovered power of the atom, how this power nearly destroys civilization in a catastrophic war and foreshadows nuclear warfare years before research began and describes the chain reactions involved and the resulting radiation. It is presented as a history of the important events of the 20th century, jumping back and forth amongst narratives of different eyewitnesses and major players in those events. „The...

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...

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 ...

A charming tale of a young recalcitrant boy’s wanderings through England. Full of humour. It is a light tale, and one of Wells’ that holds up the best. Though young Bealby is determined to rise above his mother’s servant status, no amount of struggle helps him to prevail. He reluctantly leaves his home for Shonts, a big country house, to work as a steward’s boy. But a fateful weekend visit by distinguished personages, including the strange yet captivating Lord Chancellor, m...

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...

„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...

Decades ahead of his time, H.G. Wells leaps beyond the bounds of conventional imagination to tell the story of the Time Traveler. A seminal and hugely imaginative work of early science fiction, H.G. Wells’s „The Time Machine” is the first and greatest modern portrayal of time-travel and definitely a spiritual ancestor of every time travel story since. The book introduces a scientist who uses a Time Machine to be transferred into the age of a slowly dying earth. Humans have ...

H.G. Wells is an English author best known as a sci-fi writer, though he is also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, but in this 1917 novel, H. G. Wells weaves a more intuitive tale, about a bishop haunted by strange dreams and visions that challenge his faith. Lyrical, poetic, and verging on stream-of-consciousness in places, this little-read work of one of the most enduringly popular writers of mo...

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...