Arcturus When the Sleeper Wakes Уэллс Герберт Джордж

A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred years. During his centuries of slumber, however, investments are made that make him the richest and most powerful man on Earth. But when he comes out of his trance he is horrified to discover that the money accumulated in his name is being used to maintain a hierarchal society in which most are poor, and more than a third of all people are enslaved. Oppressed and uneducated, the masses cling desperately to one dream - that the sleeper will awake, and lead them all to freedom

The Invisible Man tells the tale of a scientist who finds a way to make himself invisible, but to his dismay is unable to reverse the experiment. At once distraught and freed from the constraints of the law, Wells' disturbing and insightful novel explores the question of morality when a man is free to do as he pleases without risk of being caught

On a bitter evening in the depths of winter, a mysterious stranger arrives to the remote English village of Iping, his face swaddled in bandages • The Invisible Man tells the tale of a scientist who has found a way to make himself invisible. To his anger and dismay, however, the experiment appears irreversible. Freed from the constraints of the law and rejected from a society that fears him, Griffin descends into brutality. Wells' disturbing and insightful novel explores the question of morality when a man is free to do as he pleases without risk of being caught

Учебное пособие для изучения английского языка методом параллельных текстов. «Параллельные тексты» являются составной частью природосообразной модели обучения, разработанной психологом Алексеем Кушниром. Принципиальное отличие этой модели в том, что в её основе лежит не лингвистика, а закономерности психофизиологии — механизмы работы мозга, психики, личности. Человек осваивает что бы то ни было благодаря именно этим механизмам, а не сообразно предметной парадигме математики, географии или лингвистики. Именно поэтому переход на природосообразные алгоритмы обучения позволяет значительно увеличить эффективность учебного процесса • Пособие предназначено для использования в учебном процессе, а также для самообразования

В деревню Айпинг прибывает странный человек, замотанный в бинты. Он отказывается покидать свою комнату, в которой он занимается экспериментами, призванными сделать его невидимым • Успех незнакомца меняет всё. Когда он понимает, что не сможет вернуться к былому облику, он начинает сходить с ума • Роман "Человек-невидимка" - глубокая история, предупреждающая о непредвиденных последствиях наших действий. Злоключения этого классического героя научной фантастики - пронзительное, бескомпромиссное и порой неприглядное отражение самого сердца человеческой природы • Книга была неоднократно экранизирована, по ней был снят одноимённый фильм в советском союзе и телесериал BBC; последняя адаптация, претерпевшая изменение сюжета, была снята в 2020 году • Книга на английском языке

In 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 wind. Brilliantly imaginative fiction or the shape of things to come? H.G. Well's masterpiece still retains it's power to provoke and enthral

Brilliantly imaginative fiction or the shape of things to come? H.G. Wells's masterpiece still retains its power to provoke and enthral • In 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 wind

The mysterious Griffin arrives at a picturesque English inn during a snowstorm, swaddled in bandages which cover his face and with his eyes hidden behind dark glasses. His odd get-up and irascible behavior intrigue the locals, who believe him to be the victim of an accident. However, the true reason for Griffin’s outfit is far stranger: underneath those clothes, he is completely invisible. As the cause of Griffin’s state of transparency is revealed, his nefarious and destructive intentions become clear • One of the foundational texts of science fiction, The Invisible Man has inspired numerous film and TV adaptations and remains chilling in its depiction of scientific experimentation gone wrong

A Victorian scientist and inventor creates a machine for propelling himself through time, and voyages to the year AD 802701, where he discovers a race of humanoids called the Eloi. Their gently indolent way of life, set in a decaying cityscape, leads the scientist to believe that they are the remnants of a once great civilization. He is forced to revise this assessment when he comes across the cave dwellings of threatening ape-like creatures known as Morlocks, whose dark underground world he must explore to discover the terrible secrets of this fractured society, and the means of getting back to his own time • A biting critique of class and social equality as well as an innovative and much imitated piece of science fiction which introduced the idea of time travel into the popular consciousness, The Time Machine is a profound and extraordinarily prescient novel

The Time Machine is the first and greatest modern portrayal of time-travel. It sees a Victorian scientist propel himself into the year 802,701 AD, when 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 humans, he soon realizes that they are simply remnants of a once-great culture - now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. They have every reason to be afraid: in deep tunnels beneath their paradise lurks another race - the sinister Morlocks

With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin - the new guest at The Coach and Horses - is at first assumed to be a shy accident-victim. But the true reason for his disguise is far more chilling: he has developed a process that has made him invisible, and is locked in a struggle to discover the antidote. Forced from the village, and driven to murder, he seeks the aid of an old friend, Kemp. The horror of his fate has affected his mind, however - and when Kemp refuse to help, he resolves to wreak his revenge