In A World of Love, an uneasy group of relations are living under one roof at Montefort, a decaying manor in the Irish countryside. When twenty-year-old Jane finds in the ...
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Герберт Уэллс в своих фантастических произведениях опередил свое время. Он пророчил, что наша реальность будет четырехмерна, писал о лазере и атомной бомбе задолго до их и...