The Sleeper Awakes is H. G. Wells's wildly imaginative story of London in the twenty-second century and the man who by accident becomes owner and master of the world. In 1897 a Victorian gentleman falls into a sleep from which he cannot be waked. During his two centuries of slumber he becomes the Sleeper, the most well known and powerful person in the world. All property is bequeathed to the Sleeper to be administered by a Council on his behalf. The common people, increasingly oppressed, view the Sleeper as a mythical liberator whose awakening will free them from misery. The Sleeper awakes in...

Nel lontano 802.701 il Viaggiatore del Tempo ha trovato un mondo diviso in due razze, dove gli Eloi, fragili e infantili creature che vivono in superficie, sono prede e cibo dei terribili Morlocks, esseri mostruosi che vivono nelle viscere della Terra. Un gentiluomo e scienziato inglese racconta l'avventuroso viaggio nel remoto futuro effettuato per mezzo di una macchina di sua invenzione. Gli amici riuniti nel suo tranquillo salotto londinese sono perplessi e scettici; uno solo di loro vorrebbe dargli credito, e il giorno seguente torna a fargli visita: assistera alla partenza del...

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Et pourquoi ne pouvons-nous pas nous mouvoir ca et la dans le temps, comme nous nous mouvons ca et la dans les autres dimensions de l'espace ?
La machine a explorer le temps est sans doute l'un des romans de science-fiction les plus celebres du grand H. G. Wells. Dans cette histoire, le narrateur conte a ses amis son extraordinaire voyage plus de 800 000 ans dans le futur. Il va decouvrir une humanite completement...

Nel 1894, quando Marte si trova relativamente piu vicino alla Terra, ha inizio il piano d'invasione attentamente concepito dagli abitanti del pianeta nostro vicino, minacciati nella loro sopravvivenza. Dieci cilindri, in rapida sequenza, vengono sparati da Marte verso la Terra, e quando giunge il primo, atterrato in una tranquilla area suburbana a sud-ovest di Londra, e grande fra gli uomini l'eccitazione per il primo contatto dell'umanita con una civilta extraterrestre; e quando il cilindro si dischiude, e si manifestano le mostruose creature che contiene, ancora nessuno fra gli uomini...

Ann Veronica describes the rebellion of Ann Veronica Stanley, "a young lady of nearly two-and-twenty," 1] against her middle-class father's stern patriarchal rule. The novel dramatizes the contemporary problem of the New Woman. It is set in Victorian era London and environs, except for an Alpine excursion. Ann Veronica offers vignettes of the Women's suffrage movement in Great Britain and features a chapter inspired by the 1908 attempt of suffragettes to storm Parliament. Plot Mr. Stanley forbids his adult daughter, a biology student at Tredgold Women's College and the youngest of his five...

Extract: THE DOOR IN THE WALL I One confidential evening, not three months ago, Lionel Wallace told me this story of the Door in the Wall. And at the time I thought that so far as he was concerned it was a true story. He told it me with such a direct simplicity of conviction that I could not do otherwise than believe in him. But in the morning, in my own flat, I woke to a different atmosphere, and as I lay in bed and recalled the things he had told me, stripped of the glamour of his earnest slow voice, denuded of the focussed shaded table light, the shadowy atmosphere that wrapped about him...