H.G. Wells (33 kníh)
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H.G. Wells Island of Doctor Moreau ENHarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. That these man-like creatures were in truth only bestial monsters, mere grotesque travesties of men, filled me with a vague uncertainty of their possibilities far worse than any definite fear. Edward Prendick, the sole survivor of a shipwreck in the South Pacific, is set ashore on an island where he meets the mysterious Doctor…
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D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Graham Green, H.G. Wells, H.E. Bates, Francis Scott Fitzgerald Love Stories ENThe Love Stories Collection of six stories explores a variety of perspectives on the themes of love over the last century, from a maid jilted by her social-climbing boyfriend to a bored housewife who is looking for something extra in her life.Collection of short stories by: D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Graham Green, H.G. Wells, H.E. Bates, F. Scott FitzgeraldLevel: Advanced
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H.G. Wells, Dana Olšovská, Sarah Walsh (ilustrácie) Neviditelný / The Invisible ManJak se stát neviditelným? A jaká úskalí tento zdánlivě úžasný stav s sebou nese? Čtěte napínavý příběh o mladém vědci a studujte přitom angličtinu! Poté, co mladý přírodovědec Griffin objeví klíč k neviditelnosti a provede úspěšný pokus na sobě, již...
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H.G. Wells, Dana Olšovská Neviditelný / The Invisible ManUčte se anglicky čtením napínavého příběhu o neviditelném muži! Příběh mladého vědce, který objeví klíč k neviditelnosti, je zpracován pro začínající čtenáře. Mohou si tak vyzkoušet, jak si poradí se souvislým textem...
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H.G. Wells Ostrov doktora MoreauaOstrov doktora Moreaua je jeden z prvých románov dnes už klasického anglického autora žánru vedecko-fantastickej literatúry Herberta Georgea Wellsa. Román podáva príbeh stroskotanca Prendicka, ktorého pred istou smrťou zachráni čln doktora Moreaua. Hoci román patrí medzi rané diela tohto klasika sci-fi literatúry, nesie významné morálne a filozofické posolstvo. Predovšetkým preto, že skúma hranice medzi morálnym a…
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H.G. Wells Práva človekaProgresívny manifest slávneho intelektuála z roku 1940 inšpiroval znenie Všeobecnej deklarácie ľudských práv a ešte aj dnes s nadčasovou platnosťou znie jeho volanie, aby sme sa k nášmu druhu postavili s patričnou zodpovednosťou a od politikov žiadali...
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H.G. Wells Short StoriesH.G. Wells, one of the founding fathers of science fiction created a rich universe of short stories, many of which are collected here in this special deluxe edition. The Star, The Time Machine, The Land Ironclads and ...
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H.G. Wells Six NovelsHe was the first to popularize the concept of time travel. He disturbed—and fascinated–us with a frightening doctor’s island. He wrote of an invisible man, of men on the moon, and of a war of the worlds. He has influenced countless other writers, artists, and even scientists. H. G. Wells is one of the most acclaimed science fiction writers who ever lived, and five of his classic tales are collected in this book for…
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H.G. Wells Stroj času / Ostrov Dr. Moreaua CZ„Stroj času vypráví o krkolomné pouti časem svérázného vynálezce a klade otázky o mezích vývoje lidské civilizace. „Ostrov Dr. Moreaua rovněž přesahuje žánr dobrodružného románu. Pojednává o vědeckých experimentech, jež se pokoušejí změnit odvěký řád přírody. Oba tyto romány, které možná až dnes nabývají pravé aktuálnosti, stojí u zrodu žánru vědeckofantastické literatury. Kniha, kterou provázejí ilustrace…
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H.G. Wells Strůjci nových časůMuž, jenž přišel o své tělo, svérázný lovec pokladů hrající si na boha, duch, který se sám bojí, nebo hrůzostrašné údolí pavouků. I v povídkách z pozdějšího období Herbert George Wells ukazuje, že zdaleka není jen autorem science fiction, ale brilantně ov
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H.G. Wells The Essential CollectionThis superb collection of classic science-fiction writing features the most notable works of H.G. Wells, including The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), War of the Worlds (1898), and The First Men in the Moon
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H.G. Wells The Invisible Man ENThe stranger arrives early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow. He is wrapped up from head to foot, and the brim of his hat hides every inch of his face. Rude and rough, the stranger works with strange apparatus locked in his room all day and walks along lonely lanes at night, his bandaged face inspiring fear in children and dogs. Is he the mutilated victim of an accident? A…
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H.G. Wells The Invisible Man ENHarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man - the mystery, the power, the freedom. Griffin, a stranger, arrives at the local inn of an English village, entirely shrouded in bandages. Forbidding and unfriendly, he confines himself to his room. Driven away by the villagers and…
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H.G. Wells The Invisible ManThe Invisible Man (1897) blends comedy and tragedy in its story of a scientist who discovers a way to make himself invisible. His inability to reverse the process leads to a radical disconnection from society—and eventually from his own sanity...
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H.G. Wells The Invisible Man + MP3 ENA stranger arrives in a small village wearing a long coat and gloves. His head is covered in bandages and dark glasses hide his eyes. The villagers are curious. Who is he? When they discover the stranger’s terrible secret, they realize that they are in great danger. Classic / British English
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H.G. Wells The Island of Doctor Moreau ENThey say that terror is a disease...A shipwrecked man finds himself, after various twists of Fate, on a lonely tropical island. From a locked enclosure the cries of animals in pain can be heard, and there is a stink of chemicals in the air. Bestial faces stare out of the forests and grotesque, misshaped creatures move in the gloom.
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H.G. Wells The Island of Doctor Moreau & Other StoriesThis volume unites four of Wells' liveliest and most engaging tales of the strange evolution and behaviour of animals - including human beings. The Island of Doctor Moreau is followed by three fantastic yet chillingly plausible...
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H.G. Wells The Sea Raiders ENSpellbinding short stories of man-eating squid, magicians and monstrous machines, from the father of science fiction.
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H.G. Wells The Time Machine ENIn the Time Traveller's miraculous new machine, we will be carried from a Victorian dinner table to 802,701 AD, when the Earth is divided between the gentle, ineffective Eloi, and the ape-like Morlocks; forward again by a million years or so to glimpse a dying world of blood-red beaches and menacing shapes; and on again to the last days of our planet, a remote twilight where nothing moves but darkness and a cold…
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H.G. Wells The Time Machine ENHarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. In a moment I was clutched by several hands, and there was no mistaking that they were trying to haul me back... You can scarce imagine how nauseatingly inhuman they looked - those pale chinless faces and great, lidless, pinkish-grey eyes! An English scientist regales his dinner guests with the tale of his travels to the year…
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H.G. Wells The Time Machine ENGreat shapes like big machines rose out of the dimness, and cast grotesque black shadows, in which dim spectral Morlocks sheltered from the glare.When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that this…
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H.G. Wells The Time MachineIn the Time Traveller's miraculous new machine, we will be carried from a Victorian dinner table to 802,701 AD, when the Earth is divided between the gentle, ineffective Eloi, and the ape-like Morlocks; forward again by a million ...
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H.G. Wells The Time Machine / The Invisible Man ENTwo classic science fiction novels in one handsome volume. Here are two masterpieces of irony and imaginative vision from the father of science fiction. The Time Machine propels the Time Traveller into a distant, dismal, Darwinian future. The Invisible Man tells of a brash young scientist who becomes invisible, then insane.
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H.G. Wells The War of the Worlds ENThe ultimate science fiction classic. For more than one hundred years this compelling tale of the Martian invasion of Earth has enthralled readers with a combination of imagination and incisive commentary on the imbalance of power that continues to be relevant today
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