The Time Machine
1st Edition
Published on 22. December 2016
144 pages
978-0-19-101710-0 (ISBN)
Description
'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 and the time travel story. Even before its serialisation 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 1890s.
This edition features a contextual introduction, detailed explanatory notes, and two essays Wells wrote just prior to the publication of his first book.
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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).
Content
- Cover
- The Time Machine
- COPYRIGHT
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- NOTE ON THE TEXT
- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Works by H. G. Wells
- Biography
- Studies of Wells
- Studies of The Time Machine
- Contextual Reading
- Further Reading in Oxford World's Classics
- A Chronology of H.G. Wells
- The Time Machine: An Invention
- CONTENTS
- Chapter I: Introduction
- Chapter II: The Machine
- Chapter III: The Time Traveller Returns
- Chapter IV: Time Travelling
- Chapter V: In The Golden Age *
- Chapter VI: The Sunset of Mankind
- Chapter VII: A Sudden Shock
- Chapter VIII: Explanation
- Chapter IX: The Morlocks
- Chapter X: When The Night Came
- Chapter XI: The Palace of Green Porcelain
- Chapter XII: In The Darkness
- Chapter XIII: The Trap of the White Sphinx
- Chapter XIV: The Further Vision
- Chapter XV: The Time Traveller's Return
- Chapter XVI: After The Story
- Epilogue
- Appendix I: The New Review 'The Further Vision'
- Appendix II: H.G. Wells, 'Zoological Retrogression' (1891)
- The world forgetting, by the world forgot.*
- Appendix III: H. G. Wells, 'On Extinction' (1893)
- Explanatory Notes
- The Time Machine
- Appendix I
- Appendix II
- Appendix III
- More About: OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS
- More About: OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS
- A SELECTION OF: OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS
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- Trolope in: OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS
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