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"The New Machiavelli" purports to be written in the first person by its protagonist, Richard "Dick" Remington, who has a lifelong passion for "statecraft" and who dreams of recasting the social and political form of the English nation. Remington is a brilliant student at Cambridge, writes several books on political themes, marries an heiress and enters parliament as a Liberal influenced by the socialism of a couple easily recognisable as the Webbs, only to go over to the Conservatives.

История человечества от зарождения жизни на Земле до начала XX века, большой объем информации и прекрасное изложение событий.

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 his old friend Kemp. The horror of his fate has affected his mind, however—and when Kemp refuses to help, Griffin resolves to wreak his revenge.

A mysterious, bandaged stranger arrives in the small English village of Iping - and chaos follows close behind. H.G. Wells' classic story of obsession, murder, and science run amok.

A Modern Utopia is a 1905 novel by H. G. Wells. Because of the complexity and sophistication of its narrative structure, A Modern Utopia has been called "not so much a modern as a postmodern utopia." The novel is best known for its notion that a voluntary order of nobility known as the Samurai could effectively rule a "kinetic and not static" world state so as to solve "the problem of combining progress with political stability".

This is the timeless science fiction classic, depicting man's struggle against technologically superior invaders from Mars.

H. P. Lovecraft 15 Essential Stories & H. G. Wells 7 Essential Stories: 22 stories of real fantastic, horror or science fiction classics. Lovecraft: The Temple, Dagon, The Music of Erich Zann, The Nameless City, Hypnos, The Outsider, The Colour out of Space, The Rats in the Walls, The History of Necronomicon, Azathoth, The Stolen Body, The Lurking Fear, The Whisperer in Darkness, Herbert West Reanimator, The Shadow over Innsmouth. H. G. Wells: The Valley of Spiders, The Magic Shop, Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation, Miss Winchelsea's Heart.

H.G. Wells—long hailed as the Father of Science Fiction—was a pioneer in the exploration of thrilling, scientifically based stories—a sub-genre which he called his Scientific Romances. Here, we present four of these world-famous books.

The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. It was written between 1895 and 1897. The invasion of an alien race that is in a great scientific and logical advance comparing to people of Earth is described in the novel. The aliens are inhumanly cruel. It seems the destruction of the whole Earth civilisation is inevitable. Dark and horrible pictures of destroyed London and other cities of Great Britain are depicted so realistically that it frightens the imagination. Is the mankind doomed?

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia, and later the Soviet Union, became a one-party socialist state governed by the Communist Party. Ideologically a Marxist, his developments to the ideology are called Leninism.

"Eines Abends, es war vor gut drei Monaten, erzählte mir Lionel Wallace in einem vertraulichen Gespräch von der Tür in der Mauer." Mit diesen Worten beginnt eine der einfühlsamsten und ehrlichsten Geschichten, die H. G. Wells jemals verfasst hat. Hier beschreibt er die Sehnsucht eines erfolgreichen Mannes endlich den Frieden zu finden, nachdem er schon so lange sucht. Er begegnet der Tür wieder und wieder und jedes Mal scheint sie ihn mehr denn je zu locken. Irgendwann wird er sie betreten.

Im viktorianischen England: Die feine Dinner-Gesellschaft staunt nicht schlecht, als der junge Wissenschaftler seinen Gästen eröffnet, dass seiner Meinung nach, die Zeit lediglich die vierte Dimension darstellt und er selbst zudem das Modell einer Maschine konstruiert habe, mit dem es zukünftig möglich sein wird, sich vor und zurück durch die Zeit zu bewegen.

Full-cast dramatisations of six masterpieces from the founding fathers of dystopian fiction. Dark and disturbing, provocative and prescient, dystopian literature has long captured our imagination with its nightmarish visions of forbidding future worlds. Included here are six classic novels of time-travel, totalitarianism and terror, written by some of the masters of speculative fiction and adapted for radio with all-star casts.

Es gelingt Thomas Marvel, dem Unsichtbaren unter beträchtlichen Mühen zu entkommen. Dieser dringt daraufhin in ein Landhaus ein und erlebt dort auf der Suche nach einem neuen Gehilfen eine große Überraschung...

England 1899: Was geht vor sich in dem berüchtigten roten Raum des Schlosses Lorraine, in dem noch niemand eine ganze Nacht ausgehalten hat, ohne dem Wahnsinn zu verfallen oder zu versterben? Simon Price will gegen den ausdrücklichen Rat der Besitzerin und der alten Dienstboten, dem Spuk mit modernster Technik, einem Phonographen, zu Leibe rücken und riskiert damit seinen Verstand und sein Leben.

Als Edward Prendick schiffbrüchig wird, kann er sich auf eine Insel retten - doch dies ist die Insel von Dr. Moreau, dem mehr als zwielichtigen Forscher. Bald macht der scheinbar Gerettete furchtbare Entdeckungen... Dieser Science Fiction-Roman ist auch ein äußerst populärer Gruselklassiker!

Man has always wanted to travel into the unknown and encounter what he has not, and perhaps cannot, experience in the real world. The early 20th century witnessed an explosion of science fiction literature. Authors studied the wonders of scientific and technological progress and imagined worlds that had developed even greater advances. Jules Vernes' and H.G. Wells' fantastic tales well whetted the public's appetite for adventure tales.

Am Amazonas 1899: Kapitän Guerilleau erhält den Befehl mit dem Kanonenboot Benjamin Constant den Fluss hinauf zu fahren, um den Eingeborenen hilfreich zur Seite zu stehen. Dort ist angeblich eine Ameisen-Invasion ausgebrochen. Zunächst glaubt er, dass es sich lediglich um einen Scherz handelt. Doch schon bald sieht er sich und seine Mannschaft tödlichen Gefahren gegenüber..

A superb collection of classic short stories showcasing the variety, depth and imagination of great Victorian writers.

H. G. Wells, one of the 20th Century’s greatest writers—author of The Time Machine, War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man—wrote The Open Conspiracy to express his ideas about how a peaceful and cooperative world community could bring happiness and prosperity to all the inhabitants of the earth. Wars would no longer be fought and hunger would not rear its ugly head. Writing shortly after World War One, he writes of the horrible waste of life and immense suffering that extreme nationalism brought to Europe.