| The Time Machine and Other Works Contributor(s): Wells, H. G. (Author), Davies, Laurence (Introduction by), Davies, Laurence (Notes by) |
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ISBN: 1840227389 ISBN-13: 9781840227383 Publisher: Wordsworth Editions OUR PRICE: $7.19 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - General - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Wordsworth Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5" W x 7.7" (0.50 lbs) 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In these 'scientific romances' H. G. Wells sees the present reflected in the future and the future in the present. His aim is to provoke rather than predict. The Sleeper falls into a trance, waking up two centuries later as the richest man in a world of new technologies, power-greedy leaders, sensual elites, and brutalised industrial slaves. Arriving in the year 802,701, the Time-Traveller finds that humanity has evolved into two drastically different species; going farther still, he witnesses the ultimate fate of the solar system. The Chronic Argonauts, the original version of The Time Machine, pits a scientist with daring views of time and space against superstitious villagers. In all three works Wells laces vivid adventure stories with the latest ideas in biology and physics. |