| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780812505047 | | Publisher: Tor Books | | Publish Date: 4/10/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 30174166 | | Item#: RQ6GHC | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 65422 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 6.75H x 4.25L x 0.5T |
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| | | | "The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us..." (from the first line) The publication of The Time Machine helped to establish Wells' reputation and was followed by such classics as The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds. In a future world, childlike people called Eloi live in ignorant bliss while the hideous and vicious Morlocks assume the industrial duties in subterranean caves. Into this world comes the Time Traveler--destined to become an alien on his own planet. A Tor Classic. Unabridged.
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At a dinner party in suburban London, the Time Traveller, known to the reader only as the Eminent Scientist, speaks to his guests about the fourth dimension of space--i.e. time. He states that it is possible to travel through time much as one travels through space. The guests are not persuaded, even after seeing the Eminent Scientist's time machine itself. At a later dinner party, the scientist arrives a little late, rumpled and dirty. He tells them he has spent the equivalent of eight days in the year 802,701. He encountered the Eloi, a race of delicate gentle vegetarians who exist in an idyllic garden, and the Morlocks, who live underground and operate the machinery and industrial equipment of the world. The Eloi, in other words are descendents of capitalism, and the Morlocks are the progeny of the proletariat. The Time Traveller then hurries into the year 30,000,000, where he sees a single life form--a round, tentacled thing near the ocean. He concludes that this represents the end of life on earth.
| PraiseNew York Times
"'The Time Machine'...is worth reading, if you like to read impossible yarns, and though there is scarcely an effort to make the queer invention, by means of which the inventor was projected into the year 800,000 of our era, seem likely, the narrative is smartly written, and the philosophy of the thing is at once obvious (which is desirable when a story book has any philosophy) and interesting." 07/16/1988Reference Books
"Without question 'The Time Machine' is the best piece of writing. It will take its place among the great stories of our language. Like all excellent works it has meanings within its meaning." - V. S. Pritchett Reference Books
"Indeed, I would claim that Wells's early fiction is closer to the symbolic romances of Hawthorne or Melville, or to a complex fantasy like 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,' or even to the fables of Kafka, than it is to the more strictly scientific speculations of Verne." - Bernard Bergonzi |
| Author Bio| H. G. Wells | | Born in Kent, England to poor parents, H. G. Wells was apprenticed to a draper at age 14. Fired, he bounced from job to job, and at age 18 he went to college and became a pupil of scientist Thomas Henry Huxley, the greatest influence on his life. After two troubled marriages, Wells began publishing his novels and grew very wealthy; his first novel, THE TIME MACHINE, was followed by approximately a book a year. He was described by his paramour Rebecca West as "practically off his head, enormously vain, irascible, and in a fantasy world." He died in 1946, one month from his 80th birthday. His influence on other authors is incalculable. |
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