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The Time Machine (Oxford World's Classics)
H. G. Wells
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Description for The Time Machine (Oxford World's Classics)
Paperback. The Time Machine is a scientific romance that helped invent the genre of science fiction and the time travel story. This edition features a contextual introduction, detailed explanatory notes, and two essays Wells wrote just prior to the publication of his first book. Editor(s): Luckhurst, Roger. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; FC; FLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 195 x 2. Weight in Grams: 124.
'So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-nots, the Workers...' At a Victorian dinner party, in Richmond, London, the Time Traveller 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 ... Read more
'So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-nots, the Workers...' At a Victorian dinner party, in Richmond, London, the Time Traveller 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198707516
SKU
V9780198707516
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About H. G. Wells
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Time Machine (Oxford World's Classics)
Very smart-looking new editions of SF classics.
David V Barrett, Fortean Times
David V Barrett, Fortean Times