The Invisible Man
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The Invisible Man

Автор: Herbert George Wells

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Издательство: Пальмира|Книга по Требованию

Год: 2017

Место издания: Санкт-Петербург | Москва

ISBN: 978-5-521-00184-2

Страниц: 123

Артикул: 12199

Возрастная маркировка: 12+

Электронная книга
99

Содержание книги "The Invisible Man"


The Strange Man’s Arrival
Mr. Teddy Henfrey’s First Impressions
The Thousand and One Bottles
Mr. Cuss Interviews the Stranger
The Burglary at the Vicarage
The Furniture That Went Mad
The Unveiling of the Stranger
In Transit
Mr. Thomas Marvel
Mr. Marvel’s Visit to Iping
In the “Coach and Horses”
The Invisible Man Loses His Temper
Mr. Marvel Discusses His Resignation
At Port Stowe
The Man Who Was Running
In the “Jolly Cricketers”
Dr. Kemp’s Visitor
The Invisible Man Sleeps
Certain First Principles
At the House in Great Portland Street
In Oxford Street
In the Emporium
In Drury Lane
The Plan That Failed
The Hunting of the Invisible Man
The Wicksteed Murder
The Siege of Kemp’s House
The Hunter Hunted
The Epilogue

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28H. G. Wells Hall passed her husband in the passage and ran on first upstairs. Someonesneezed on the staircase. Hall, following six steps behind, thought that heheard her sneeze. She, going on first, was under the impression that Hallwas sneezing. She flung open the door and stood regarding the room. “Ofall the curious!” she said.She heard a sniff close behind her head as it seemed, and turning, wassurprised to see Hall a dozen feet off on the topmost stair. But in anothermoment he was beside her. She bent forward and put her hand on thepillow and then under the clothes.“Cold,” she said. “He’s been up this hour or more.”As she did so, a most extraordinary thing happened. The bed-clothesgathered themselves together, leapt up suddenly into a sort of peak, andthen jumped headlong over the bottom rail. It was exactly as if a hand hadclutched them in the centre and flung them aside. Immediately after, thestranger’s hat hopped off the bed-post, described a whirling flight in the airthrough the better part of a circle, and then dashed straight at Mrs. Hall’sface. Then as swiftly came the sponge from the washstand; and then thechair, flinging the stranger’s coat and trousers carelessly aside, and laughingdrily in a voice singularly like the stranger’s, turned itself up with its fourlegs at Mrs. Hall, seemed to take aim at her for a moment, and charged ather. She screamed and turned, and then the chair legs came gently butfirmly against her back and impelled her and Hall out of the room. Thedoor slammed violently and was locked. The chair and bed seemed to beexecuting a dance of triumph for a moment, and then abruptly everythingwas still.Mrs. Hall was left almost in a fainting condition in Mr. Hall’s arms onthe landing. It was with the greatest difficulty that Mr. Hall and Millie,who had been roused by her scream of alarm, succeeded in getting herdownstairs, and applying the restoratives customary in such cases.“‘Tas sperits,” ...