The Time Machine (Movie Tie-In)

Wells, H.G.

ISBN 10: 0441009190 / ISBN 13: 9780441009190

Published by Ace (edition Reissue), 2001

About this Item

The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Time Machine (Movie Tie-In)
• Publisher: Ace (edition Reissue)
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0441009190
• ISBN 13: 9780441009190
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition: Reissue.
• Condition: Fair

About this title

Synopsis

Presents the classic science fiction thriller depicting the adventures of the Time Traveler whose fantastic invention carries him into the world of the future.

About the Author

Herbert George Wells was born in Bromley, Kent, England, on September 21, 1866. His father was a professional cricketer and sometime shopkeeper, his mother a former lady’s maid. Although "Bertie" left school at fourteen to become a draper’s apprentice (a life he detested), he later won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in London, where he studied with the famous Thomas Henry Huxley. He began to sell articles and short stories regularly in 1893. In 1895, his immediately successful novel rescued him from a life of penury on a schoolteacher’s salary. His other "scientific romances"—The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898), The First Men in the Moon (1901), and The War in the Air (1908)—won him distinction as the father of science fiction.

Henry James saw in Wells the most gifted writer of the age, but Wells, having coined the phrase "the war that will end war" to describe World War I, became increasingly disillusioned and focused his attention on educating mankind with his bestselling Outline of History (1920) and his later utopian works. Living until 1946, Wells witnessed a world more terrible than any of his imaginative visions, and he bitterly observed: "Reality has taken a leaf from my book and set itself to supercede me."