Название: 50+ Space Action Adventure Classics
Автор: Жюль Верн
Издательство: Bookwire
Жанр: Языкознание
isbn: 9788027248278
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H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
Book One. The Coming of the Martians
Chapter One. The Eve of the War
Chapter Three. On Horsell Common
Chapter Four. The Cylinder Opens
Chapter Six. The HeatRay in the Chobham Road
Chapter Seven. How I Reached Home
Chapter Nine. The Fighting Begins
Chapter Twelve. What I Saw of the Destruction
Chapter Thirteen. How I Fell in with the Curate
Chapter Fifteen. What Had Happened in Surrey
Chapter Sixteen. The Exodus from London
Chapter Seventeen. The “Thunder Child”
Book Two. The Earth Under the Martians
Chapter Two. What We Saw from the Ruined House
Chapter Three. The Days of Imprisonment
Chapter Four. The Death of the Curate
Chapter Six. The Work of Fifteen Days
Chapter Seven. The Man on Putney Hill
Book One.
The Coming of the Martians
Chapter One.
The Eve of the War
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do СКАЧАТЬ