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The Time Machine

The Time Machine

by H.G.Wells (Author)

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    Paperback 2004

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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 garrolous. The tale he tells is of the year 802,701 - of life as it is lived in exactly the same spot in what once had been London. He has visited the future of the human race and encountered beings that are elfin, beautiful, vegetarian, and leading a life of splendid idleness. But this is not the only lifeform that exists in Eden - in the tunnels beneath paradise lurks man's darker side.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 112
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 19 Feb 2004
ISBN 10: 0753820137
ISBN 13: 9780753820131
Book Overview: Reissued with fantastic new cover look alongside 4 other Wells classics Perhaps Wells best-known book, this classic is universally regarded as the prototype of all science fiction The Time Machine has been made into a film several times, the most recent starring Guy Pearse, Samantha Mumba, and Jeremy Irons 'Well's scientific romances were... works of art with unique relevance for our times' Arthur C. Clarke 'The Prospero of all brave new worlds of the mind, and the Shakespeare of science fiction' Brian W. Aldiss

Author Bio
H G 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.