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The Time Machine: A Norton Critical Edition Paperback - 2009

by H. G. Wells; Stephen Arata (Editor)


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.

From the publisher

Intrigued by the possibilities of time travel as a student and inspired as a journalist by the great scientific advances of the Victorian Age, Wells drew on his own scientific publications--on evolution, degeneration, species extinction, geologic time, and biology--in writing The Time Machine. This Norton Critical Edition is based on the first London edition of the novel. It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations and "A Note on the Text."

"Backgrounds and Contexts" is organized thematically into four sections: "The Evolution of The Time Machine" presents alternative versions and installments and excerpts of the author's time-travel story; "Wells's Scientific Journalism (1891-94)" focuses on the scientific topics central to the novel; "Wells on The Time Machine" reprints the prefaces to the 1924, 1931, and 1934 editions; and "Scientific and Social Contexts" collects five widely read texts by the Victorian scientists and social critics Edwin Ray Lankester, Thomas Henry Huxley, Benjamin Kidd, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), and Balfour Stewart and Peter Guthrie Tait.

"Criticism" includes three important early reviews of The Time Machine from the Spectator, the Daily Chronicle, and Pall Mall Magazine as well as eight critical essays that reflect our changing emphases in reading and appreciating this futuristic novel. Contributors include Yevgeny Zamyatin, Bernard Bergonzi, Kathryn Hume, Elaine Showalter, John Huntington, Paul A. Cantor and Peter Hufnagel, Colin Manlove, and Roger Luckhurst.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

From the rear cover

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.

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  • Title The Time Machine: A Norton Critical Edition
  • Author H. G. Wells; Stephen Arata (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
  • Date 2009
  • 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)
  • 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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