The Time Machine and Other Stories (Wordsworth Classics)

H G Wells

ISBN 10: 1840227389 / ISBN 13: 9781840227383

Published by Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Time Machine and Other Stories (Wordsworth Classics)
• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1840227389
• ISBN 13: 9781840227383
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
In these 'scientific romances' H. G. Wells sees the present reflected in the future and the future in the present. His aim is to provoke rather than predict. The Sleeper falls into a trance, waking up two centuries later as the richest man in a world of new technologies, power-greedy leaders, sensual elites, and brutalised industrial slaves. Arriving in the year 802,701, the Time-Traveller finds that humanity has evolved into two drastically different species; going farther still, he witnesses the ultimate fate of the solar system. The Chronic Argonauts, the original version of The Time Machine, pits a scientist with daring views of time and space against superstitious villagers. In all three works Wells laces vivid adventure stories with the latest ideas in biology and physics.

About the Author

Roger Luckhurst has written widely on Victorian popular fiction, science fiction and Gothic literature. He has edited Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Stoker's Dracula, and an anthology of Late Victorian Gothic Tales for Oxford World's Classics, and an edition of H. P. Lovecraft's Classic Horror Stories. His books include The Mummy's Curse: The True History of a Dark Fantasy (Oxford, 2012).