C’est une autre histoire saturé des énigmes et des aventures. Un riche américain, qui s’appele Cosmo Mornington, est décédé dans d’étranges circonstances. Il reste un grand héritage, que provoque une séquence des crimes en France. Si les descendants de la famille Roussel ne se retrouvent pas, l’argent sera remis à Don Luis Perenna, qui est...bien sûr! Arsène Lupin! Ce n’est pas difficile pour lui d’être un distingué espagnol et chef de la Sûreté à Paris, d’être vivant et en...
C’est un récit de neuf romans qui sont rassemblés par le narrateur rencontré dans un précédent volume, Arsène Lupin gentleman-cambrioleur. Les neuf nouvelles sont variées et représentent Lupin comme un personnage élégant, qui peut surprendre tout le monde dans une intrigue incroyable. Il n’hésite pas à aider ceux qui s’apparaissent sur son chemin, mais il n’oublie pas sa part de richesse. Il est l’intelligence et la subtilité, un voleur génial, il n’accomplit aucun crime, t...
Arsène Lupin – un Robin des Bois de la «Belle Epoque», l’énigmatique personnage, le fantaisiste gentleman, qui n’opère que dans les châteaux et les salons, l’insaisissable cambrioleur dont on racontait les prouesses dans tous les journaux depuis des mois, l’homme aux mille déguisements. Ce n’est pas un aristocrate qui vit comme un anarchiste mais un anarchiste qui vit comme un aristocrate. Ajoutons à cela la fascination de se mettre du mauvais côté de la loi, ainsi qu’une a...
La séduisante belle femme, qui est la fille du majestueux comte Cagliostro et qui posséde des nombreaux secrets de son père, adore les toutes sortes des aventures. Pendant cette chasse aux aventures elle est jointe par Arsène Lupin – un filou génial, un gentleman-cambrioleur. Tout sera allé bien, s’il n’était tombé amoureaux...
Ce livre est la suite du roman célèbre du Gaston Leroux «Le mystère de la Chambre Jaune» et ici on retrouve les personnages connus. Un jeune journaliste Rouletabille entre en jeu de massacre avec un malfaiteur Gaulow qui est un loup-garou. La situation devient alors inquiete: évanescence, délit... Le secret s’épaissit. Rouletabille doit se surpasser pour venir à bout de cette véritable „histoire du diable.”
«Le Fauteuil hanté» est un roman policier comique et „noir”. L’histoire se passe à L’Académie française, qui devient le théâtre de drames répétés. Chaque candidat à la succession de Mgr d’Abbeville s’écrouli, mort, pendant le discours de réception. Le Secrétaire perpétuel et marchand d’antiquités commencent leur investigation en tremblant de peur... et ils nous font bien rire. C’est histoire qui se présente comme un récit d’horreur mais qui, finalement, amuse beaucoup plus ...
Rouletabille, amoureaux et tout enivré du désir d’être heureux avec Ivana Vilitchkov, il se jete avec ses amis dans la gueule du loup et il risque cent fois sa vie. Il veut la tirer des griffes de ce assassin de toute sa famille, il se bat pour sauver Ivana et capturer son ravisseur, mais elle... elle ne veut pas aller avec Rouletabille. Il n’arrête pas la protéger. Peut la puissance de l’amour transformer un limier intelligant en petit garçon?
«Le fantôme de l’Opéra a réellement existé! Oui, il a existé, en chair et en os, bien qu’il se donnât toutes les apparences d’un vrai fantôme, c’est-à-dire d’une ombre...» La tension afflue de la première à la dernière page et ne donne pas le temps pour prendre un peu de souffle. Accidents et disparitions, pendaison du machiniste, chute d’un lustre dans le public, enlèvements et séquestration... Qu’est-ce que c’est? Ce roman gothique très envoûtant.
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...
Considered one of Wells most successful attempts at a social novel in the vein of Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray, Wells’s tale is a panoramic view of an unravelling society. A semi-autobiographical satire of Edwardian advertising and patent-medicines. The story follows the life of a young man, George, and his Uncle Edward. Edward invents an elixir called TONO-BUNGAY and hires his nephew George to help build the company. The medicine becomes a huge commercia...
„You Can’t be Too Careful” is a sketch of one way of life – the life path, cowardly man, in fear, made a lot of dirty tricks. He never forgot that „necessary caution”, and helped unleash the Second world war. He believed everything he was told, he did what he was told. Not it is done by world Affairs, he was only a humble and law-abiding. But he relied all those who would, in the words of wells, „to increase the amount of the world’s evil”. He was one of the men who develop...
This book was written in 1899, and is one of the last science-fiction books Wells wrote before his turn towards social realism in his writing. In this dystopian novel, Graham falls into a coma-like sleep, a sleep that he wakes from some 203 years in the future. But times have changed. Due to the wise investments of a board of trustees, Graham’s money has compounded into the greatest fortune the world has ever seen, and the trustees have used it to virtually enslave the enti...
Like „The Time Machine”, this book may be considered as a further romance of the fourth dimension. „The Wonderful Visit” was paid by an angel, who by some accident, had got out of the angel into the human world, where his is accidentally shot by a vicar. The angel had trouble adjusting to life in a small English town. „The Wonderful Visit” is an 1895 novel by H. G. Wells. With an angel – a creature of fantasy unlike a religious angel – as protagonist and taking place in con...
„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...
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...
This novel is a great document illustrating the anticipation of comings of the 20th century. This early H.G. Wells’ tale is about a 20 year old man who has a job as a Drapers Assistant, a job which he is probably too old for. Loaded with poor self esteem and a second class status, poor Mr. Hoopdriver takes a ten day holiday. On this holiday he falls for a young socialite named Jessie who is rebelling against her stepmother and society. She soon falls prey to a married man t...
Dedicated to all schoolmasters and schoolmistresses and every teacher in the world, this re-interpretation of the Book of Job is one of the author’s finest discussion novels. Written in 1918, this is the story of Job Huss, the headmaster of a progressive school. It is saturated with the ideas of educational reform and of the teaching of world history as the basis for a common civilization and is one of his most ambitious dialogue narratives. Essentially it is a modernized p...
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...
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...
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 ...
This is a short novel about a nineteen century Englishman who falls in a deep sleep only to awake over two hundred years later. The World has changed beyond recognition, and „The Sleeper” finds himself in a remarkable predicament – he has become the owner of the entire planet. However, his awakening profoundly shakes this state of affairs, and he suddenly finds himself at the very center of revolutionary social upheavals and a struggle for the ultimate power. But when he co...
„The Shape of Things to Come” is one of the great classics of science fiction. Originally written in 1929, this masterly work of science fiction has already confirmed H G Wells’ status as a remarkable soothsayer, and provides glimpses of what is perhaps yet to come. The book is written as a sort of historical account. It tells of how a world state could be considered an answer to Earth’s problems. After a large plague wipes out much of humanity, a dictatorship takes over, t...
Mr. Wells builds novels out of ideas as other men build them of imagery and emotions. H. G. Wells takes us on a very entertaining and profound journey via a character named William who insists on living life nobly and thoroughly. Starting in his boyhood, and throughout his life, it produced profound adventures, yet also make him ridiculous, and even inspiring. It is a passion for courage, for personal nobility, for service to others, for self-sacrificing, all for the social...
