Harpercollins The Time Machine Уэллс Герберт Джордж

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Victorian scientist propel himself into the year 802,701 AD, when he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace.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

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

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

«Люди как боги» — научно-фантастический роман Герберта Уэллса о цивилизации людей на планете, называемой «Утопия» • Добро пожаловать в Утопию • Когда мистер Барнстейпл, землянин, случайно переносится в Утопию вместе с группой других людей, он начинает приключение, которое навсегда изменит его взгляды на мир • В Утопии нет правительства. В Утопии нет религии. Людьми управляет только их собственная совесть и желания, и Барнстейпл втянут в то, что он считает идеальным обществом. Но когда болезнь, принесенная землянами, угрожает существованию утопийцев, Барнстейпл должен сделать выбор: захватить Утопию или предать свой собственный народ, чтобы спасти мир, которым он стал восхищаться.… • Книга на английском языке • Welcome to Utopia • When Mr. Barnstaple, an Earthling, is accidentally transported to Utopia with a group of others, he begins an adventure that will change how he views the world forever

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

С лицом, обмотанным бинтами, глазами, скрытыми за темными очками, и руками, прикрытыми даже в помещении, Гриффина поначалу принимают за застенчивую жертву несчастного случая • Но истинная причина его маскировки гораздо более пугающая: он изобрёл аппарат, который сделал его невидимым, и он борется за то, чтобы найти противоядие. Изгнанный из деревни, он обращается за помощью к старому другу Кемпу. Однако ужас его судьбы повлиял на его рассудок - и когда Кемп отказывается помочь, он решает отомстить • Роман Герберта Уэллса "Человек-невидимка" с первых страниц погружает читателя в удивительный мир, в котором невозможное становится реальностью! • Книга на английском языке • 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

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

"... slowly uncoiling their tentacles... and making a soft purring sound to each other." This is a disgusting account of a school of giant squid attacking a seaside resort, and two other examples of Wells' extraordinary imagination at work - The Magic Shop and The Land Ironclads. This is one of 46 new books in the best-selling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants

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

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

Совершив научное открытие, гениальный учёный Гриффин оказывается в западне: невидимость лишает его тепла человеческого общения, он вынужден голодать и скрывать новый облик, чтобы не стать шутом для простолюдинов. Попытка вернуть собственное лицо обнажает самые тёмные стороны натуры Гриффина: он начинает мечтать о богатстве, стремится к захвату власти и пытается совершить убийство. Но финал злодея-одиночки предсказуем: невидимость делает очевидными все пороки злого гения и приводит его к смерти • Текст сокращён и адаптирован. Уровень B1 • Адаптация, сокращение и словарь: И. Б. Загородняя