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1047.txt | The New Machiavelli | since i came to this place i have been very restless, wasting my energies in the futile beginning of ill-conceived books. one does not settle down very readily at two and forty to a new way of living, and i have found myself with the teeming interests of the life i have abandoned still buzzing like a swarm of homeless ... |
1059.txt | The World Set Free | the history of mankind is the history of the attainment of external power. man is the tool-using, fire-making animal. from the outset of his terrestrial career we find him supplementing the natural strength and bodily weapons of a beast by the heat of burning and the rough implement of stone. so he passed beyond the ap... |
12163.txt | The Sleeper Awakes | 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 pro... |
159.txt | The island of Doctor Moreau | i do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the lady vain. as everyone knows, she collided with a derelict when ten days out from callao. the longboat, with seven of the crew, was picked up eighteen days after by h. m. gunboat myrtle, and the story of their terrible privatio... |
23218.txt | The Red Room | "i can assure you," said i, "that it will take a very tangible ghost to frighten me." and i stood up before the fire with my glass in my hand.
"it is your own choosing," said the man with the withered arm, and glanced at me askance.
"eight-and-twenty years," said i, "i have lived, and never a ghost have i seen as yet."... |
27365.txt | Tales of Space and Time | there was, until a year ago, a little and very grimy-looking shop near seven dials, over which, in weather-worn yellow lettering, the name of "c. cave, naturalist and dealer in antiquities," was inscribed. the contents of its window were curiously variegated. they comprised some elephant tusks and an imperfect set of c... |
35.txt | The Time Machine | the time traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. his pale grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his usually pale face was flushed and animated. the fire burnt brightly, and the soft radiance of the incandescent lights in the lilies of silver caught the bubbles that ... |
36.txt | The War of the Worlds | 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 ... |
5230.txt | The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance | the stranger came early in february, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand. he was wrapped up from head to foot, and the brim of his soft felt h... |
52501.txt | The First Men in the Moon | as i sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine-leaves under the blue sky of southern italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventures of mr. cavor was, after all, the outcome of the purest accident. it might have been any one. i fell into these thing... |
6424.txt | A Modern Utopia | the utopia of a modern dreamer must needs differ in one fundamental aspect from the nowheres and utopias men planned before darwin quickened the thought of the world. those were all perfect and static states, a balance of happiness won for ever against the forces of unrest and disorder that inhere in things. one beheld... |
75786.txt | The open conspiracy : Blue prints for a world revolution | few people, if any, are always sustained by unselfish or religious motives, and few or none are altogether beyond their influence. the daily lives of the great majority of human beings are frankly irreligious; they seem to differ only in their scope, variety and intelligence from the lives of animals; they are determin... |
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