| The Time Machine Contributor(s): Wells, H. G. (Author), Luckhurst, Roger (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0198707517 ISBN-13: 9780198707516 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $10.76 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Science Fiction - Time Travel |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2016943468 |
| Lexile Measure: 1010 |
| Series: Oxford World's Classics (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5" W x 7.6" (0.27 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Home Schooling |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: At a Victorian dinner party in Richmond, London, the Time Traveler returns to tell his extraordinary tale of mankind's future in the year 802,701 AD. It is a dystopian vision of Darwinian evolution, with humans split into an above-ground species of Eloi, and their troglodyte brothers. The first book H. G. Wells published, The Time Machine is a scientific romance that helped invent the genre of science fiction and the time travel story. Even before its serialization had finished in the spring of 1895, Wells had been declared a man of genius, and the book heralded a fifty year career of a major cultural and political controversialist. It is a sardonic rejection of Victorian ideals of progress and improvement and a detailed satirical commentary on the Decadent culture of the 1890's. This edition features a contextual introduction, detailed explanatory notes, and two essays Wells wrote just prior to the publication of his first book. |