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Twenty-one, passionate and headstrong, Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her own life. When her father forbids her from attending a fashionable Ball, she decides she has no choice but to leave her family home and make a fresh start in London. There, she finds a world of intellectuals, socialists, and suffragettes - a place where, as a student in Biology at Imperial College, she can be truly free. But when she meets the brilliant Capes, a married academic, and quickly falls in love, she soon finds that freedom comes at a price

Герберт Уэллс (1866—1946) — английский писатель, «отец-основатель» жанра научной фантастики. Романы Герберта Узллса не содержат сегодняшних реалий — компьютеров, космических челноков и адронных коллайдеров, однако читаются с неослабевающим интересом и никогда не уйдут с книжных полок. Что бы ни являлось объектом обличения в уэллсовских романах — козни подземных рабов-морлоков, бездействие богачей-элоев или иллюзия всемогущества и безнаказанности самонадеянного ученого, — за 100 с лишним лет, прошедших со дня первой публикации «Машины времени» и «Человека-невидимки», человеческие пороки и слабости не сильно изменялись

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

'I will go in, out of this dust and heat, out of this dry glitter of vanity, out of these toilsome futilities. I will go and never return.' Three disturbing, mysterious and moving stories from Wells, science-fiction pioneer. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. H

The Penguin English Library Edition of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells • 'Death!' I shouted. 'Death is coming! Death!' • In this pioneering, shocking and nightmarish tale, naive suburban Londoners investigate a strange cylinder from space, but are instantly incinerated by an all-destroying heat-ray. Soon, gigantic killing machines that chase and feed on human prey are threatening the whole of humanity. A pioneering work of alien invasion fiction, The War of the World's journalistic style contrasts disturbingly with its horrifying visions of the human race under siege • The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War

В книгу вошли романы "Человек-невидимка" и "Война миров", а также пять рассказов английского классика научной фантастики Герберта Уэллса. Послесловие Ю. Кагарлицкого "Человек, который мог творить чудеса" содержит биографические данные о Герберте Уэллса и критический обзор его творчества

Лучшие фантастические романы Герберта Уэллса. «Война миров» — первый в истории роман, поднимающий тему вражды между людьми и инопланетянами. Захватывающий и отрезвляющий, пугающий и увлекательный, потрясающе масштабно экранизированный в 2005 году, с Томом Крузом в главной роли. «Первые люди на Луне» — остроумная антиутопия, в которой гармонично переплетаются черты приключенческой фантастики, притчи и социальной сатиры, создавая оригинальный узор нового мира, присущий исключительно творчеству Герберта Уэллса. Была экранизирована в Великобритании в 2010 году

"... 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 carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction • The Invisible Man, a Level 4 Reader, is A2+ in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, introducing more complex uses of present perfect simple, passives, phrasal verbs and simple relative clauses. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly • Griffin is a scientist, and he discovers how to make things invisible. Then he becomes invisible himself. Griffin thinks that an invisible man will have a lot of power

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells • 'That black figure, with its eyes of fire, struck down through all my adult thoughts and feelings, and for a moment the forgotten horrors of childhood came back to my mind' • Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel carrying a profoundly unusual cargo - a menagerie of savage animals. Tended to recovery by their keeper Montgomery, who gives him dark medicine that tastes of blood, Prendick soon finds himself stranded upon an uncharted island in the Pacific with his rescuer and the beasts. Here, he meets Montgomery's master, the sinister Dr. Moreau - a brilliant scientist whose notorious experiments in vivisection have caused him to abandon the civilised world

A parable on Darwinian theory, and a biting social satire, H.G. Wells's science fiction classic The Island of Dr Moreau is a fascinating exploration of what it is to be human. This Penguin Classics edition is edited by Patrick Parrinder with notes by Steven McLean and an introduction by Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's Tale • Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel carrying a profoundly unusual cargo - a menagerie of savage animals. Tended to recovery by their keeper Montgomery, who gives him dark medicine that tastes of blood, Prendick soon finds himself stranded upon an uncharted island in the Pacific with his rescuer and the beasts. Here, he meets Montgomery's master, the sinister Dr

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design • From the planet of war they came to conquer the Earth • The night after a shooting star is seen streaking across the sky, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common. Fascinated and exhilarated, the local people approach the mysterious object armed with nothing more than a white flag. But when gruesome alien creatures emerge armed with all-destroying heat-rays, their rashness turns rapidly to fear. As the rays blaze towards them, it soon becomes clear they have no choice but to flee - or die • The forces of the Earth, however, may prove harder to beat than they at first appear