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Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: One winter's day a mysterious stranger arrives in the quiet village of Iping. His head is covered with bandages and he wears a long coat and gloves. What is he doing in the village?

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Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Edward Prendick is travelling in the South Pacific when his ship goes down. He is saved after many days at sea by another ship, and a passenger, Montgomery, nurses him back to health. Prendick becomes interested in the mystery of Montgomery's life. Why does he live on an unknown Pacific island? Why is he taking animals there? And should Prendick fear the dark secrets of Montgomery's master the…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: The Time Traveller has built a time machine and has gone into the future to the year 802,701. He expects to find a better world with highly-intelligent people and great inventions. Instead, he finds that people have become weak, child-like creatures. They dance and sing and wear flowers. They seem happy, but why are they so frightened of the dark? And who or what has taken his time machine? Will…

Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: The Time Traveller has built a time machine and has gone into the future to the year 802,701. He expects to find a better world with highly-intelligent people and great inventions. Instead, he finds that people have become weak, child-like creatures. They dance and sing and wear flowers. They seem happy, but why are they so frightened of the dark? And who or what has taken his time machine? Will…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: A stranger arrives in a small village wearing a long coat and gloves. His head is covered in bandages and dark glasses hide his eyes. The villagers are curious. Who is he? When they discover the stranger’s terrible secret, they realize that they are in great danger.

Скачать книгу (размер 452 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 90) Аннотация: »The War of the Worlds» is one of the most frightening science fiction novels ever written. When a spaceship falls from the sky and lands in southern England, few people are worried. But when strange creatures climb out and start killing, nobody is safe.

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Edward Prendick is travelling in the South Pacific when his ship goes down. He is saved after many days at sea by another ship, and a passenger, Montgomery, nurses him back to health. Prendick becomes interested in the mystery of Montgomery's life. Why does he live on an unknown Pacific island? Why is he taking animals there? And should Prendick fear the dark secrets of Montgomery's master the…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: A stranger arrives in a small village wearing a long coat and gloves. His head is covered in bandages and dark glasses hide his eyes. The villagers are curious. Who is he? When they discover the stranger's terrible secret, they realize that they are in great danger.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Herbert George Wells was perhaps best known as the author of such classic works of science fiction as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds. But it was in his short stories, written when he was a young man embarking on a literary career, that he first explored the enormous potential of the scientific discoveries of the day. He described his stories as a miscellany of inventions, yet his…

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Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: When penniless businessman Mr. Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance the brilliant Dr. Cavor, an absent-minded scientist on the brink of developing a material that blocks gravity. Cavor soon succeeds in his experiments, only to tell a stunned Bedford the invention makes possible one of the oldest dreams of humanity: a journey to the moon. With Bedford motivated by…

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Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettable movies, this early work of H. G. Wells was greeted in 1896 by howls of protest from reviewers, who found it horrifying and blasphemous. They wanted to know more about the wondrous possibilities of science shown in his first book, The Time Machine, not its potential for misuse and terror. In The…

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