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The Time Machine: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions) Paperback - 2009
by H. G. Wells
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- Title The Time Machine: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)
- Author H. G. Wells
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
- Date 2009
- Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # A0393927946
- ISBN 9780393927948 / 0393927946
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8.2 x 5.1 x 0.7 in (20.83 x 12.95 x 1.78 cm)
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Themes
- Topical: Home School
- Library of Congress subjects Science fiction, Time travel
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008034563
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
A scientist invents a machine that he claims will travel through time. His friends, however, laugh at the idea. So the Time Traveler climbs aboard his machine and ends up thousands of years in the future. He meets a race of gentle humans called the Eloi. But the Time Traveler is swept up in a fight for his life against evil underground creatures known as Morlocks. Even worse, his Time Machine, his only chance to escape, is trapped deep inside the Morlock caverns.
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In The Time Machine Wells pioneers the concept of travel in the 'Fourth Dimension' and speculates about the ultimate decay of the human species. The world of the effete Eloi and ape-like Morlocks, the age of giant crabs, and the final portrayal of the heat-death of the sun constitute an unforgettable vision of the future. The Time Traveller's narrow escape from the remote descendants of humanity is paralleled by Edward Prendick's horrifying adventures among the Beast Folk of The Island of Doctor Moreau. Moreau, a ruthless vivisector, chooses an uninhabited Pacific island for his attempts to change animals into human beings on the operating table. Prendick soon fears that he, too, may become a victim of Moreau's experiments. Even at their most bleakly pessimistic and ironic, these stories testify to the resources of human courage and ingenuity. This edition offers authoritative texts of both novels, explanatory notes, and an introduction setting them in the context of Wells's life and thought.