HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.“For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man left alive.”When a strange, meteor-like object lands in the heart of England, the inhabitants of Earth find themselves victims of a terrible attack. A ruthless race of Martians, armed with heat rays and poisonous smoke, is intent on destroying everything that stands in its way. As the unnamed hero...
В книге представлены научно-фантастические романы выдающегося английского писателя Герберта Уэллса, в которых автор поднимает темы, ставшие популярными в фантастике на многие годы. Ускоритель темпа жизни, антигравитация и человек-невидимка – вот лишь немногие из идей, которые открыл Уэллс для мира фантастики. В издание вошли следующие романы: «Машина времени», «Когда спящий проснется», «Остров доктора Моро». Все произведения даны на языке оригинала. Знакомство с оригиналами творений классиков...
English novelist, historian and science writer Herbert George Wells (1866–1946) abandoned teaching and launched his literary career with a series of highly successful science-fiction novels. The Time Machine was the first of a number of these imaginative literary inventions. First published in 1895, the novel follows the adventures of a hypothetical Time Traveller who journeys into the future to find that humanity has evolved into two races: the peaceful Eloi — vegetarians...
HarperCollins 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 802,701, where he discovers that the human race has evolved into two distinct...