Opowiadania mistrza gatunku. Tagi: klasyka, opowiadanie

„Marriage” is a surprising story about relationships and people by science fiction legend, H.G. Wells. It features two protagonists: Marjorie Pope, the oldest daughter of a carriage manufacturer whose business has been ruined by the advent of the automobile, and R. A. G. Trafford, a physicist specializing in crystallography whom she marries against the wishes of her family at the age of 21. The novel traces the history of their relationship, which begins when an early airpl...

Mr. Lewisham is an ambitious young teacher who has grand plans for his future. Indeed he has written up a Plan or Schema as he calls it and has committed himself to daily study to improve himself. We follow him as he moves to London and becomes a student. He also gets married and the later part of the novel is about how his naive beliefs about himself and the world survive this transition. „Love and Mr. Lewisham” is the story of a young man who seeks to better himself and a...

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...

Although most famous for his sci-fi, Wells’ best work often deals with ordinary people having big thoughts in picturesque settings. „The Passionate Friends” is a fine representative example of this. Wells uses the changing relationships among childhood friends as the media for his thoughts on human relations on personal and global scales, and of what it all means. On the death of his father, Stephen Stratton writes a long and deeply personal letter to his son, hoping that, ...

H.G. Wells is best remembered as a central figure in the development of the science fiction genre. However, much of his literary output was more conventional in nature, and he published a number of novels dealing with interpersonal relationships and social themes. H.G. Wells was so charmed by Margaret Sanger that he based „The Secret Places of the Heart” on his time with her. The novel is a thinly-veiled autobiography that depicts an English gentleman, Sir Richard Hardy, wh...

On a deceivingly beautiful island in the South Seas exists the sinister kingdom of Doctor Moreau. Edward Prendick is shipwrecked in the Pacific. Rescued by Doctor Moreau’s assistant he is taken to the doctor’s island home where he discovers the doctor has been experimenting on the animal inhabitants of the island, creating bizarre proto-humans...The main plot, a shunned biologist, Dr. Moreau, attempting to create a new species of animals by combining biological elements of ...

One of the most famous science-fiction stories ever written, „The War of the Worlds” helped launch the entire genre by exploiting the concept of interplanetary travel. Thirty-five million miles into space, a species of Martians sets eyes on planet Earth. With their own planet doomed for destruction, the Martians prepare to invade. Their weapons are ready and their aim is ruthless. The war of the worlds is about to begin. „The War of the Worlds” describes the fictional 1895 ...

Bert Smallways is the unlikely protagonist, a kind of Edwardian Mod, not interested in a steady career, always looking for a good time, riding his proto-scooter down to Brighton at the weekends. When Bert is accidentally scooped up by a German fleet, on its way to launch a surprise attack on the United States, he finds himself with a front row seat to the greatest war that has ever been – the war in the air! This new war is to be a different sort of war than all the wars th...

For Mr Britling, eccentric and vivacious writer, the summer of 1914 consisted of long, hot days and luxurious house parties with a host of international guests to entertain him. And when he tired of this, he hopped across the channel where his devoted mistress was patiently waiting. But all this was about to change as Germany began marching into Belgium and Europe no longer provided the easy diversion he had so enjoyed. „The World of William Clissold” is a 1926 novel by H.G...

„The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman” is a novel set in the era surrounding the days of women’s suffrage. The story revolves around the wife of a baking magnate who goes into hiding after his female employees go on strike. Although the hero of this novel Sir Isaac Harman didn’t think much of the suffragette movement, his female employees certainly did, and he thought it prescient that he too should do his bit for women’s rights. His wife totally agreed, so he locked her up. Howeve...

First published in 1909, it focuses on feminist issues from the point of view of a young woman entering adulthood and enduring prejudice about her place in the world. And this novel, „Ann Veronica”, tells the story of a middle class young woman who is fed up of being expected to be purely decorative. Her father and her boyfriends really are incapable of understanding why she should want to study science, or control her own life in any way. One Wednesday, Ann Veronica Stanle...

„Kryształowe jajko” to opowiadanie autorstwa Herberta George’a Wellsa, uznanego za jednego z pionierów gatunku science fiction.
Historia opowiada losy właściciela sklepu, który znajduje dziwne kryształowe jajko, które służy jako okno na planetę Mars.

„Kraina ślepców” to opowiadanie autorstwa Herberta George’a Wellsa, uznanego za jednego z pionierów gatunku science fiction.Opowiadanie opisuje losy próbującego się wspiąć się na niezdobytą górę, alpinista imieniem Nuñez. Podczas wyprawy, bohater znalazł dolinę, odciętą od reszty świata, otoczoną ze wszystkich stron stromymi przepaściami. Był to legendarny „Kraj Ślepców”. Dolina była rajem dla osadników uciekających przed tyranią hiszpańskich władców, dopóki trzęsienie z...

„Królestwo mrówek” to opowiadanie autorstwa Herberta George’a Wellsa, uznanego za jednego z pionierów gatunku science fiction.“Przez cały ciąg podróży chętnie jednak mawiał z Holroydem o mrówkach. Za każdym razem, kiedy zdarzyło im się spotkać jakąś istotę ludzką wśród bezmiarów wody, słońca i lasów, Holroyd, lepiej obznajmiony z miejscowem narzeczem, rozpoznawał słowo „Saüba“, coraz częstsze, coraz bardziej dominujące nad całą rozmową. Uznał, że sprawa mrówek zaczyna się prz...

„Eliksir przyśpieszający” to opowiadanie autorstwa Herberta George’a Wellsa, uznanego za jednego z pionierów gatunku science fiction.Opowieść dotyczy eliksiru, wynalezionego przez prof. Gibberne'a, który przyspiesza wszystkie procesy fizjologiczne i poznawcze jednostki o kilka rzędów wielkości, tak że chociaż jednostka nie dostrzega w sobie żadnej zmiany, świat zewnętrzny wydaje się prawie zamrożony w bezruchu i można jedynie dostrzec ruch najszybciej poruszających się obiekt...

„Niedoświadczone widmo” to opowiadanie autorstwa Herberta George’a Wellsa, uznanego za jednego z pionierów gatunku science fiction.“— Złapałem upiora! — Złapał pan upiora?! — rzekł Sanderson. — Gdzież on jest? A Evans, admirujący ogromnie Claytona, zawołał: — Złapał pan upiora? Ach, jak to dobrze! Niech nam pan opowie, jak się to stało? Clayton zgodził się, poprosił tylko, żeby zamknąć drzwi. Spojrzał na mnie, jakby z usprawiedliwieniem: — Nikt nie podsłuchuje pode drzwiami, ...

„Gość z zaświatów” to powieść autorstwa Herberta George’a Wellsa, uznanego za jednego z pionierów gatunku science fiction.“Słońce zaszło tego wieczora za krwawy obłok, a księżyc wcale nie był widzialny. W tym właśnie wielkim mroku, zabłysł meteor — bo jakież inne ciało rzucić mogło w przelocie ten świetlny snop promieni, — ale meteor ów nie odznaczał się blaskiem jednostajnym — owszem, ciągłość jego i kształt przerywały niby błyskawice łukowate. Zresztą, jak każde tej natury ...

H.G. Wells znany przede wszystkim z wizjonerskich książek science-fiction, jak choćby Wehikuł czasu i Wojna światów, był również świetnym obserwatorem codziennego życia. Koła szansy to odpowiednik przezabawnej komedii romantycznej, której tłem jest rewolucja obyczajowa dokonująca się za sprawą… roweru.

Należąca do kanonu literatury światowej Wojna światów jest bodaj najsławniejszą powieścią z gatunku science fiction. Kreujące apokaliptyczną wizję przyszłości dzieło angielskiego pisarza Herberta George'a Wellsa wywarło ogromny wpływ na rozwój literatury fantastycznej.Powieść opisuje inwazję wrogich przybyszów z kosmosu na Ziemię. Marsjanie pragną przejąć wszelką władzę nad ludźmi i przemienić ich w źródło swojego pożywienia.Autor w mistrzowskim stylu opisuje emocjonujący prz...

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...

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...