Герберт Уэллс был одним из первых писателей, посетивших Советскую Россию. В 1920 году по приглашению Каменева он совершил поездку в Петроград и Москву и провел там пятнадцать дней. Впечатления о жизни в стране, еще не оправившейся после гражданской войны, он описал в книге «Россия во мгле». Непредвзятый взгляд со стороны на власть большевиков вызвал бурную реакцию на Западе и спровоцировал полемику с Черчиллем, обвинившим Уэллса в «недостаточной основательности».
Герберт Уэллс (1866–1946) – английский писатель и публицист, классик научно-фантастической литературы. Рассказы Уэллса, сочетая в себе фантастику и реальность, выражают обеспокоенность автора будущим человечества в эпоху стремительного научно-технического прогресса. В сборник входят рассказы и статьи разных лет.
HarperCollins 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 turning to an old friend for help, Griffin reveals that he has discovered how to...
HarperCollins 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 Moreau. Horrified by the discovery that Moreau is performing vivisection on...
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...
