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Herbert George Wells (1866 — 1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, but he is now best remembered for his science fiction novels. "Tono-Bungay" is a semiautobiographical and social novel in the vein of Charles Dickens. It is a story of young George Ponderevo, who leaves college to help his Uncle Edward market Tono-Bungay, a worthless medicine. . .

Herbert George Wells (1866 — 1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, but he is now best remembered for his science fiction novels. "The New Machiavelli" is a 1911 novel, the story of Richard Remington who appears to be a man to envy. But underneath his superficial contentment, he is far from happy with either his marriage or the politics of his party. The novel describes the disarray into which his life...

Herbert George Wells (1866—1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, but he is now best remembered for his science fiction novels. "The War in the Air" a military science fiction novel, which is notable for its prophetic ideas, images, and concepts such as the use of the aircraft for the purpose of warfare and the coming of World War I. . . .

Herbert George Wells (1866 — 1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, but he is now best remembered for his science fiction novels. "The Wheels of Chance" is his early comic novel. It is a humorous account of a young man's cycling holiday in the south of England, somewhat in the style of "Three Men in a Boat" by Jerome K. Jerome. . . .

Herbert George Wells (1866 — 1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, but he is now best remembered for his science fiction novels. "The World Set Free" is a futuristic novel, written in 1913 and first published the following year. It was incredibly prophetic on a major scale, since Wells predicted nuclear warfare years before research began and described a weapon of enormous destructive power, that is...

Herbert George Wells (1866 — 1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, but he is now best remembered for his science fiction novels. "Marriage" is a novel, which features two protagonists: Maijorie Pope, the oldest daughter of a carriage manufacturer and R.A.G. Trafford, a physicist specializing in crystallography whom she marries against the wishes of her family. The novel traces the history of their...

Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, but he is now best remembered for his science fiction novels. "The First Men in the Moon" is a scientific novel, which tells the story of a journey to the moon undertaken by the two protagonists, a businessman narrator, Mr. Bedford, and an eccentric scientist, Mr. Cavor. Bedford and Cavor discover that the moon is inhabited by a...

Герберт Уэллс (1866-1946) творил своими произведениями будущее, всегда подчеркивая, что достижения науки в отрыве от гуманистических ценностей приносят человеку не благоденствие, а новые разочарования и проблемы. Главный герой романа "Человек-невидимка" (1897) изобретает устройство и специальный препарат, которые делают его невидимым. Однако научный прорыв приводит гениального ученого к краху: он вынужден скрывать свою новую сущность, страдает от холода и голода и ни с кем не может разделить...

Герберт Уэллс (1866-1946) был первопроходцем в жанре научной фантастики, он одним из первых применил и развил тему путешествия во времени. В романе "Машина времени" (1895) описан смелый научный эксперимент: его автор переносится более чем на восемьсот тысяч лет вперед! На первый взгляд, общество будущего выглядит достаточно привлекательно: технический прогресс остановился, но его достижения столь велики, что люди ведут относительно безбедное существование. Однако более близкое знакомство с...