The Time Machine (Everyman)

The Time Machine (Everyman)

by H.G.Wells (Author)

Synopsis

Late in the nineteenth century, a Victorian scientist shows his disbelieving dinner guests a device he claims is a Time Machine. Respectable London scarcely has the imagination to cope with him. A week later they reconvene to find him ragged, exhausted and garrulous. The tale he tells is of the year 802,701, of life as it is lived exactly on the same spot, in what once had been London. Wells's tale of the Victorian future is more than a fantastical yarn - it raises chilling questions about progress, social order, so-called civilisation and the ultimate fate of the world.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
Edition: Film Tie-in Ed
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 02 May 2002

ISBN 10: 0460882252
ISBN 13: 9780460882255
Book Overview: To be a major DreamWorks movie release on 29th March 2002 Starring Jeremy Irons, Guy Pearce and singer Samantha Mumba The only edition available - Everyman holds exclusive rights to The Time Machine Director is Simon Wells, great grandson of H.G. Wells Tie-in edition includes a new Foreword by Simon Wells.

Author Bio
HG Wells was born in Bromley, Kent in 1866. After working as a draper's apprentice and pupil-teacher, he won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in 1884, studying under T H Huxley. He was awarded a first-class honours degree in biology and resumed teaching but had to retire after a kick from an ill-natured pupil afflicted his kidneys. He worked in poverty in London as a crammer while experimenting in journalism and stories. It was with The Time Machine (1895) that he had his real breakthrough.