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Looking Backward – ebook
Edward Bellamy
This is a book about a man of 1887, who turned out to be in 2000. It was actually written in 1887, and author Edward Bellamy predicts certain things, such as radio and credit cards. The main character discovered that all social class differences were erased, and there is a utopian society. He wonders how in the twenty-first century all kinds of music are available at the touch of a button. Credit card...Data dostępności:
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The Autocracy of Mr Parham – ebook
Herbert George Wells
Mr. Parham is a university academic of the traditional, classical sort, very much a snob and unhappy with many of the social trends of the time. Sir Bussy Woodcock is a self-made millionaire of sharp intelligence and great energy but lowly beginnings and no cultural education. This unlikely pair meet by chance and form an intermittent relationship. In an attempt to foster this acquaintance that goes...Data dostępności:
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Cudownie niedorzeczna misja – ebook
Hank Green
Kontynuacja tomu ABSOLUTNIE FANTASTYCZNA SPRAWA Bestseller „New York Timesa” Obecność robotów-Carlów na Ziemi powodowała ogromne zamieszanie. Efektem wzbudzonego przez nie chaosu były sława i niefortunna śmierć April May. Od śmierci April minęło kilka miesięcy. Jej bliscy próbują się odnaleźć w nowej, post-Carlowej rzeczywistości. Andy przejął pałeczkę po sławnej przyjaciółce: bierze udział...Data dostępności:
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The Glorious Pool – ebook
Thorne Smith
Perhaps the best example of Thorne Smith’s acutely sharp social humor played out against a backdrop of the Prohibition. 60 year old Rex Pebble inadvertently discovers that the fountain of youth happens to be in his back yard swimming pool. A magical statue of a nymph by the name of Baggage, an ornamental pool decoration, has playfully endowed the Pebble swimming pool with the power to reverse the aging...Data dostępności:
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The Brothers – ebook
Herbert George Wells
„The Brothers – A Story.” Herbert George Wells was a prolific English writer who wrote in a variety of genres, including the novel, politics, history, and social commentary. Wells returned to a literary genre in which he had always excelled: the satire written in the form of an allegory. In a land torn apart by civil war, Bolaris was fiercely loyal to the Strong Men. So when Number Four informed him...Data dostępności:
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The Secret of the League – ebook
Ernest Bramah
„The secret of the league” is a dystopian novel written by Ernest Bramah in 1907. It was first published as „What might have been: the story of a social war”, but later was republished in 1909 as „The secret of the league. „The Secret of the League” is kind of an underground oddity of a novel. It’s a prophetic-warning novel, science fiction before that term was coined, largely sociopolitical but also...Data dostępności:
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When the Sleeper Wakes – ebook
Herbert George Wells
This book was written in 1899, and is one of the last science-fiction books Wells wrote before his turn towards social realism in his writing. In this dystopian novel, Graham falls into a coma-like sleep, a sleep that he wakes from some 203 years in the future. But times have changed. Due to the wise investments of a board of trustees, Graham’s money has compounded into the greatest fortune the world...Data dostępności:
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The Sleeper Awakes – ebook
Herbert George Wells
This is a short novel about a nineteen century Englishman who falls in a deep sleep only to awake over two hundred years later. The World has changed beyond recognition, and „The Sleeper” finds himself in a remarkable predicament – he has become the owner of the entire planet. However, his awakening profoundly shakes this state of affairs, and he suddenly finds himself at the very center of revolutionary...Data dostępności:
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The Holy Terror – ebook
Herbert George Wells
A fictional biography of Rudolf „Rud” Whitlow, who builds a political party that slowly becomes a world dominant dictatorship. Wells wrote the work just before World War II as Hitler was consolidating his power in Germany. Rud, is a baby boy, and later, grew to be a young man who had a remarkable talent of oratory: the gift of gab. He is eventually encouraged to perform public speaking, lecturing and...Data dostępności:
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Yellowface – ebook
Rebecca Kuang
Zaczyna się od niespodziewanej śmierci. A później napięcie rośnie dosłownie odbierając oddech, aż do finału, który zaciska się na gardle niczym pętla. Finału, w którym katharsis przeplata się ze stadium szaleństwa a my, nawet poznawszy całą historię, nadal nie jesteśmy pewni, kto jest ofiarą a kto czarnym charakterem. A może, jak w życiu, w tej historii nie ma czarnych charakterów i niewinnych ofiar....Data dostępności:
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