The Time Machine: An Invention : A Critical Text of the 1895 London First Edition, With an Introduction and Appendices

Leon E. Stover (editor) H. G. Wells

ISBN 10: 0786401249 / ISBN 13: 9780786401246

Published by McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 1996

About this Item

First Edition (1996.) Hardcover no dust jacket. Ex-Library, 8vo with 258 pages. The book is in good condition with general wear/rubbing to edges. Interior is clean and tight no underlining or marking. Has Ex-Library stamps and stickers. "The Time Machine is one of the most enduring works of the English language. A hundred years after it was first published, the book continues to be studied. The 1895 London first edition is used as a basis for the exhaustive annotations and other critical apparatus of the world s foremost Wellsian scholar. The widely reprinted version of 1924 is also fully accounted for." Red spine/Gold text. Size: 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Time Machine: An Invention : A Critical Text of the 1895 London First Edition, With an Introduction and Appendices
• Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786401249
• ISBN 13: 9780786401246
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ Issued
• Book Type: Ex Library / Science Fiction

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Synopsis

The Time Machine is one of the most enduring works of the English language. A hundred years after it was first published, the book continues to be studied. The 1895 London first edition is used as a basis for the exhaustive annotations and other critical apparatus of the world’s foremost Wellsian scholar. The widely reprinted version of 1924 is also fully accounted for. For most students, one of the chief points of interest is what the novel signified to readers when it was first published and how it relates to Wells’s later works. Accordingly, the annotations focus on these questions. The introduction gives in great depth the background of the work and its complex bibliographical history, and a synopsis of the literary conventions that Wells used.

About the Author

Leon Stover, professor emeritus at the Illinois Institute of Technology, author of numerous landmarks of intellectual history, is editor of The Annotated H.G. Wells in eight volumes (so far). He lives in Chicago. He is also the author of Science Fiction from Wells to Heinlein (2002).