Herbert George Wells
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Książka uważana jest za jedną z najważniejszych w historii światowej literatury fantastycznej. Należy do kanonu gatunku i na wiele lat wprowadziła fantastykę na tory apokaliptycznych wizji przyszłości. Powieść przedstawia inwazję Marsjan na Ziemię. Przybysze chcą opanować Ziemię, a ludzie stanowić mają dla nich źródło pożywienia. Wells opisa
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Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition. W angielskim pubie niejaki George McWhirter podczas sprzeczki z Fotheringayem z niezachwiana pewnością zapewnia o niemożności czynienia cudów. W odpowiedzi na to Fotheringay rozkazuje lampie naftowej, aby zapaliła się do góry no
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Opis: Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition. Pan Cave jest przyrodnikiem i antykwariuszem, który ma sklep, w którym sprzedaje różne rzeczy. Wśród wielu, które posiada jest też kawałek kryształu w kształcie jaja. Nie ma jednak zamiaru go sprzedawa
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Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition. Książka zawiera dwa znakomite opowiadania. Pokusa Harringaya to krótka historia opowiadająca o tym, jak artysta próbuje namalować portret, a ostatecznie maluje diabła, który oferuje mu sławę w zamian za jego duszę. Fabuła
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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, p
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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 fal
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The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman is a novel set in the era surrounding the days of womens 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 didnt think much of the suffragette movement, his female employees certainly did, and
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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
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Considered one of Wells most successful attempts at a social novel in the vein of Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray, Wellss 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
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You Cant 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
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An intriguing HG Wells work, not of the sci-fi variety, which details a mans struggle to find himself and get along with his world. Published in 1910, this novel is the story of Alfred Polly, a generally non-descript member of the English lower middle class. The story begins when he is thirty-five years old, miserably unhappy with his life, both
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About a political idealist who changes his colours and engages in a sexual adventure. A successful author and Liberal MP Richard Remington appears to be a man to envy. But underneath his superficial contentment, he is far from happy with either his marriage or the politics of his party. The New Machiavelli describes the disarray into which his li
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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 wha
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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 e
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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
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The book starts in late Victorian England and ends shortly after the first world war. It covers the transition between the end of the Victorian era, and the aimlessness of the next generation very well. The main characters grow up with the best education that can be found in England at the time, which is freely admitted to be not very good. They
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Arthur Kipps, an orphaned drapers assistant of humble means, unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money and that is when all his troubles begin. After being left a fortune by a rich uncle, Kipps finds himself in a position to marry Helen Walshingham. His main problem is that he is uneducated, knowing next to nothing of the world of books or the m
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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 hi
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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
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This novel is split into two parts, The Utopographer in the Garden and Advent. The former is set on the Italian Riviera where the novels central figures, a British couple, The Rylands, entertain guests. The latter, written largely in the form of letters between the couple during the husbands trip to London, provides commentary on British politica
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Often called the father of science fiction, British author Herbert George Wells literary works are notable for being some of the first titles of the science fiction genre. Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island is a 1928 novel by H. G. Wells. It tells the story of a young Englishman Arnold Blettsworthy who, after being betrayed by a business partner,
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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 chan
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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 incapab
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A charming tale of a young recalcitrant boys 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 mothers 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 s
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Wellss satire on literature, Boon was originally published under the pseudonym Reginald Bliss; a follow-up to the Fabian-savaging The New Machiavelli. It purports, however, to be by the fictional character Reginald Bliss, and for some time after publication Wells denied authorship. Boon is best known for its part in Wellss debate on the nature of
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Nie jest pewne, czy ten dar był mu wrodzony. Co do mnie, to sądzę, że zjawił mu się niespodzianie. Trzeba dodać, że do trzydziestego roku życia był on sceptykiem i nie wierzył w potęgi cudowne. Tu muszę powiedzieć, że był to człowiek małego wzrostu, oczy miał czarne, świecące, czuprynę rudą, szczotkowatą, wąsy duże i piegi na twarzy. Nazywał się Ge
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"Jeszcze w roku ubiegłym był niedaleko Siedmiu Zegarów mały, niezbyt estetyczny sklepik, a nad nim szyld malowany z napisem w pół zatartych żółtych literach: C. Cave, naturalista i handlarz starożytności. Wystawa tego sklepu była ciekawie urozmaicona. Widziałeś tam kły słoniowe, zbrakowane figury do gry w szachy, różne wyroby ze szkła, broń, dwie c
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