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„The Poison Belt”, a novella by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is remarkable in that we, with the central characters, are permitted to witness what seems to be a global apocalypse, while enduring only minimal emotional fall out. Professor Challenger urgently summons his fellow explorers (Professor Summerlee, Lord John Roxton, and reporter E.D. Malone) to a meeting. Oddly, he requires each to bring an oxygen...

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...

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...

Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1927–2013), pierwszy niekomunistyczny premier Polski po II wojnie światowej, był niewątpliwie ważną postacią polskiego życia publicznego drugiej połowy XX wieku. Powstała zatem inicjatywa przygotowania kilkutomowej edycji rozproszonych pism Mazowieckiego oraz dokumentów z nim związanych, która obejmowałaby czasy jego działalności społecznej i politycznej. Prezentowany tom, dotyczący...