At a dinner party a brilliant inventor unveils his latest invention a time machine. He travels into the future and comes across a world inhabited by two very different and degenerated races of human beings.
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2001: A space Odyssey
- 266pagine
- 10 ore di lettura
On the moon an enigma is uncovered. So great are the implications of the discovery that, for the first time, men are sent out deep into the solar system. However, before they reach their destination, things begin to go wrong. The author co-wrote the screenplay for the film "2001: A Space Odyssey".
In un parco di divertimenti a Baltimora, nella ressa della folla, si consuma un delitto assurdo e agghiacciante. Il più feroce dei killer, il terrorista internazionale Carlos, detto "lo Sciacallo", è tornato. E il mite professor Webb, esperto di lingue e culture orientali, deve nuovamente assumere la sua seconda identità, quella di Jason Bourne. Dopo "Un nome senza volto" e "Doppio inganno", la trilogia di Ludlum si conclude con questo romanzo.
The War of the Worlds
- 224pagine
- 8 ore di lettura
An English astronomer, in company with an artilleryman, a country curate, and others, struggle to survive the invasion of Earth by Martians in 1894.
Il patto
- 373pagine
- 14 ore di lettura
Nulla è come è stato prima per te. Nulla potrà mai essere uguale... Insieme a queste sibilline l'architetto Holcroft riceve, del tutto inaspettati, ben 780 milioni di dollari. Ma è denaro maledetto, che gronda del sangue innocente delle vittime del Terzo Reich. E questa somma significa per Holcroft un patto infernale e incredibile.
Classic / British English The Time Traveller has built a time machine and has gone into the future to the year 802,701. He expects to find a better world with highly-intelligent people and great inventions. Instead, he finds that people have become weak, child-like creatures. They dance and sing and wear flowers. They seem happy, but why are they so frightened of the dark? And who or what has taken his time machine? Will the Time Traveller ever be able to return to the present?
Inventors are special people. They see everyday objects and imagine something better. They solve old problems with new ideas. Their inventions can help people or destroy them, but only the greatest ideas will change the world
Contemporary / British English James D. Watson and Francis Crick won the Nobel Prize in 1962 for the discovery of the double helix, the structure of DNA. In this book, James D. Watson tells the exciting story of this discovery.
Three adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- 65pagine
- 3 ore di lettura
Why is a young woman terrified of a mysterious 'speckled band'? Are the five orange pips a sign that someone will soon die? And what about the banker who believes his son is a thief. Join the great detective Sherlock Holmes in solving the mysteries in these three thrilling stories.



