The Time Machine - Softcover

H.G. Wells

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1921369086 ISBN 13: 9781921369087

Publisher: Horizon Publishing Group, 2009

Synopsis

- In this relatively short novella (little more than 30,000 words) Wells combines two prophecies, the first into the year 802701 in which society has become divided into two distinct groups, the Eloi and the Morlocks, the second is a journey to the end of all life on Earth as we know it. - These two prophecies are related, but they have distinct messages for the late nineteenth century reader, coming at the issues of progress and evolution from two contrasting angles. - The first offers one portrait of evolutionary decline, extrapolating the divisions within Victorian society between the Aristocracy, and the subterranean proletariat. Here, it could be argued, Wells's point is a social one: unless these divisions are bridged warfare between the two classes is inevitable. The final vision on the beach is, however, more cosmically pessimistic: in the longest possible term vision Man is but a fleeting moment in the pattern of evolutionary decline into chaos and entropy. - Clearly the two prophecies, taken together, express an alternative, pessimistic rather than idealistic, view to the orthodox Victorian belief in the inevitability of Progress and Perfectibility. - Horizon Publishing Group s Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract all categories of readership who are interested in good reading, classics, and science fiction. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each book. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterword. - This edition of The Time Machine includes an Introduction, Biographical Note, and Afterword by FP Hanna.

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About the Author

- Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 13 August 1946), better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer best remembered today for the science fiction novels he published between 1895 and 1901: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, The Sleeper Awakes, and The First Men in the Moon. Wells is second to Jules Verne referred to as "The Father of Science Fiction." - He was an outspoken socialist and a pacifist; his later works becoming increasingly political and didactic. His middle period novels (1900-1920) were more realistic; they covered lower middle class life (The History of Mr Polly) and the 'New Woman' and the Suffragettes (Ann Veronica). He was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction, and produced works in many genres, including contemporary novels, history, and social commentary. - THE TIME MACHINE (1895), one of the first modern science fiction stories, THE INVISIBLE MAN (1897), and THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (1898). - Wells wrote over a hundred of books, about fifty of them novels.

Edition details

• Publisher: Horizon Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1921369086
• ISBN 13: 9781921369087
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 196
• Editor: Celine Vatikiotis