H. G. Wells skilfully combines tension, wit and terror in The Invisible Man, a masterpiece of science fiction. Complete & Unabridged. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. A mysterious stranger arrives at a rural Sussex inn on a cold winter's night with his face obscured by bandages and his body cloaked in a long, heavy coat. He locks himself in his room and spends his stay labouring over chemicals in intricate glass bottles. The villagers, bewildered by what lurks under the bandages, could never be prepared for the terrible truth: that the man is a scientist who has rendered himself invisible and is desperately struggling to find an antidote. He flees to the rugged, cliff-lined coast where, pursued by police and an angry mob, he is intent on murderous revenge.

The Invisible Man

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.

Russia in the Shadows is a book by H. G. Wells published early in 1921, which includes a series of articles previously printed in The Sunday Express in connection with Wells's second visit to Russia (after a previous trip in January 1914 to St. Petersburg and Moscow) in September and October 1920.

During his visit to Russia he visited his old friend Maxim Gorky, whom he had first met in 1906 on a trip to the United States, and who arranged Wells's meeting with Lenin.

In a chapter (The Dreamer in the Kremlin) devoted to an interview with Lenin at the Kremlin Wells describes the leader and founder of Russian communism. Wells portrays Lenin as a pragmatic leader who "has recently stripped off the last pretence that the Russian revolution is anything more than the inauguration of an age of limitless experiment."

Vladimir Lenin:

State and Revolution

What Is to Be Done?, 

Imperialism: The Final Stage of Capitalism 

The State and Revolution

The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism

Vladimir Lenin To the Citizens of Russia!

Vladimir Lenin To Workers, Soldiers, and Peasants!

Report on Peace

Report on Land

Decree on Abolishment of Capital Punishment

Decree on Transfer of Power to the Soviets

Decree on Establishment of the Workers' and Peasants' Government

Decree on Elections for the Constituent Assembly

Decree on Suppression of Hostile Newspapers

Decree on Transfer of Food Control to Municipalities

Decree on an Eight-Hour Working Day

Decree on the Right to Issue Laws

Resolution on the Right of Sovnarkom to Issue Decrees

Decree on Social Insurance

Declaration of the Rights of the People of Russia

Decree on Organization of Volost Land Committees

Decree on Transfer of Power and the Means of Production to the Toilers

Decree Proclaiming Advertising a State Monopoly

Decree Abolishing Classes and Civil Ranks

Decree on Workers' Control

Resolution on Relation of the Central Executive Committee to the Sovnarkom

Decree on the Right to Call for Re-Elections

Decree on Establishment of the Extraordinary Commission to Fight Counter-Revolution

V. I. Lenin Note To F. E. Dzerzhinsky with a Draft of A Decree On Fighting Counter-Revolutionaries And Saboteurs

H. G. Wells:

The Dreamer in the Kremlin by H. G. Wells

25+ Collected Works of Vladimir Lenin - The Dreamer in the Kremlin, State and Revolution, What Is to Be Done?, Imperialism: The Final Stage of Capitalism and others

If you (presuming you are of the sex that does such things)-if you had gone into the Drapery Emporium-which is really only magnificent for shop-of Messrs. Antrobus & Co.-a perfectly fictitious "Co., " by the bye-of Putney, on the 14th of August, 1895, had turned to the right-hand side, where the blocks of white linen and piles of blankets rise up to the rail from which the pink and blue prints depend, you might have been served by the central figure of this story that is now beginning. He would have come forward, bowing and swaying, he would have extended two hands with largish knuckles and enormous cuffs over the counter, and he would have asked you, protruding a pointed chin and without the slightest anticipation of pleasure in his manner, what he might have the pleasure of showing you. Under certain circumstances-as, for instance, hats, baby linen, gloves, silks, lace, or curtains-he would simply have bowed politely, and with a drooping expression, and making a kind of circular sweep, invited you to "step this way, " and so led you beyond his ken; but under other and happier conditions, -huckaback, blankets, dimity, cretonne, linen, calico, are cases in point, -he would have requested you to take a seat, emphasising the hospitality by leaning over the counter and gripping a chair back in a spasmodic manner, and so proceeded to obtain, unfold, and exhibit his goods for your consideration. Under which happier circumstances you might-if of an observing turn of mind and not too much of a housewife to be inhuman-have given the central figure of this story less cursory attention.

The Wheels of Chance

Sammelband mit fünf Werken

· Der Diktator

· Menschen, Göttern gleich

· Mr. Blettsworthy auf der Insel Rampole

· Einstweilen

· Das Kristall-Ei (Erzählungen)

H. G. Wells - Gesammelte Werke 2

The opening chapter does not concern itself with Love-indeed that antagonist does not certainly appear until the third-and Mr. Lewisham is seen at his studies. It was ten years ago, and in those days he was assistant master in the Whortley Proprietary School, Whortley, Sussex, and his wages were forty pounds a year, out of which he had to afford fifteen shillings a week during term time to lodge with Mrs. Munday, at the little shop in the West Street. He was called "Mr." to distinguish him from the bigger boys, whose duty it was to learn, and it was a matter of stringent regulation that he should be addressed as "Sir."

Love and Mr. Lewisham

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Penguin Readers Level 1: The War of the Worlds (ELT Graded Reader)

One afternoon, at low water, Mr. Isbister, a young artist lodging at Boscastle, walked from that place to the picturesque cove of Pentargen, desiring to examine the caves there. Halfway down the precipitous path to the Pentargen beach he came suddenly upon a man sitting in an attitude of profound distress beneath a projecting mass of rock. The hands of this man hung limply over his knees, his eyes were red and staring before him, and his face was wet with tears.

He glanced round at Isbister's footfall. Both men were disconcerted, Isbister the more so, and, to override the awkwardness of his involuntary pause, he remarked, with an air of mature conviction, that the weather was hot for the time of year.

"Very, " answered the stranger shortly, hesitated a second, and added in a colourless tone, "I can't sleep."

Isbister stopped abruptly. "No?" was all he said, but his bearing conveyed his helpful impulse.

"It may sound incredible, " said the stranger, turning weary eyes to Isbister's face and emphasizing his words with a languid hand, "but I have had no sleep-no sleep at all for six nights."

When the Sleeper Wakes

The maid was a young woman of great natural calmness; she was accustomed to let in visitors who had this air of being annoyed and finding one umbrella too numerous for them. It mattered nothing to her that the gentleman was asking for Dr. Martineau as if he was asking for something with an unpleasant taste. Almost imperceptibly she relieved him of his umbrella and juggled his hat and coat on to a massive mahogany stand. "What name, Sir?" she asked, holding open the door of the consulting room.

"Hardy, " said the gentleman, and then yielding it reluctantly with its distasteful three-year-old honour, "Sir Richmond Hardy."

The Secret Places of the Heart

H.-G. Wells (1866-1946) 

"Un après-midi, à marée basse, M. Isbister, jeune peintre, en villégiature au village de Boscastle, partit avec l'intention de faire un tour à la baie pittoresque de Pentargen. À mi-chemin du sentier abrupt qui mène aux grottes, il se trouva soudain en face d'un homme assis, en une attitude de profonde détresse, sur un rocher qui surplombait. L'inconnu avait mollement laissé tomber ses mains sur ses genoux ; ses yeux étaient rouges et fixes et son visage baigné de larmes. Il détourna la tête en entendant marcher. 

Les deux hommes parurent décontenancés, et Isbister, le plus embarrassé des deux, pour dissiper la gêne causée par son arrêt involontaire, déclara, sur un ton de conviction expérimentée, que le temps était chaud pour la saison. 

- Très chaud, répondit brièvement l'inconnu. Puis, après une seconde d'hésitation, il prononça d'une voix sans timbre : - Je ne puis pas dormir. 

La physionomie d'Isbister prit une expression compatissante. 

- Vraiment ? dit-il. 

- Cela semble incroyable, reprit l'inconnu en tournant son regard baissé vers Isbister et en soulignant chaque mot d'un geste de sa main languissante, mais voilà six nuits... oui, six nuits que je ne dors pas ! 

- Vous avez demandé conseil à votre médecin ? 

- Oh ! oui, de mauvais conseils les trois quarts du temps, des drogues... Les médicaments, c'est bon pour le commun des mortels... Mon système nerveux... Mon cas est difficile à expliquer. Je n'ose pas prendre... des drogues assez puissantes..." 

A la fin du XIXe siècle, Graham tombe en catalepsie... Il se réveille deux cents ans plus tard et apprend qu'il est l'homme le plus riche de la Terre. Son nom est devenu synonyme de dictature mais aussi symbole d'espoir pour le peuple : "Quand le dormeur s'éveillera"...

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