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Publikacja przybliża sylwetkę profesora Andrzeja Koźmińskiego, a jednocześnie jest portretem inteligenckiej warszawskiej rodziny profesorskiej, której korzenie sięgają kresów Rzeczypospolitej. Poznajemy uczonego o proeuropejskim, kosmopolitycznym nastawieniu, nauczyciela akademickiego prezentującego pozytywistyczną etykę pracy i oświeceniowy krytycyzm, zafascynowanego nowymi technologiami lidera, wrażliwego...

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...

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...