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After years of experimentation, a Victorian inventor constructs a machine to travel through time. He demonstrates a miniature working model to his friends and then shows them the actual Time Machine, but they do not believe him. One day he climbs upon the machine and vanishes... Read Full Overview

Step into the thrilling world of time travel with H.G. Wells' groundbreaking classic, The Time Machine. This visionary novel takes you on a journey beyond the limits of imagination--into a distant, mysterious future where society has evolved in unexpected and chilling... Read Full Overview

Revised

There are really four dimensions, three which we call the three planes of Space, and a fourth, Time.

The Original 1895 Classic

When an English Scientist, known only as the Time Traveller, invents a machine that can travel... Read Full Overview

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells is a classic science fiction novel that takes readers on a thrilling journey through time. As the Time Traveller explores the future, he encounters dystopian societies and grapples with the profound implications of human evolution.

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In his quest to discover what the future holds for mankind, the Time Traveler creates an ingenious machine-- a Time Machine that zips past sunsets, lands, oceans and centuries in the bat of an eyelid. However, instead of making pathbreaking discoveries, the Time Traveler... Read Full Overview

Almost two centuries after its publication, Frankenstein remains an indisputably classic text and Mary Shelley's finest work.

This extensively revised Norton Critical Edition includes new texts and illustrative materials that convey the enduring global conversation about... Read Full Overview

H.G. Wells, a pioneer in the science fiction genre, produced awesomely imaginative novels whose technologies seem impossibly sophisticated for a writer living in an era before automobiles and the widespread application of electricity. In his work The Time Machine, Wells' Time... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

"Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change." --- H.G. Wells, The Time Machine The Time Machine H. G. WELLS (1866 - 1946) The Time Machine is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, published... Read Full Overview

English novelist, historian and science writer Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) abandoned teaching and launched his literary career with a series of highly successful science-fiction novels. The Time Machine was the first of a number of these imaginative literary inventions... Read Full Overview

The text of the Fourth Edition of the Norton Critical Edition of Emma is based on the 1816 edition published by John Murray. George Justice has lightly and judiciously emended the text for faithfulness and clarity. The novel is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations... Read Full Overview

"A Pioneering Foray into Science Fiction" -The New Yorker

The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 and written as a frame narrative. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel... Read Full Overview

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H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine" launched the science fiction genre. Over time, it has been adapted into different formats, and with each adaptation, changes from the original had to be made. Sometimes it is nice to see how things all began, without all of the alterations made... Read Full Overview

The narrator tells of his incredible journey into the distant future in this landmark of imagination, cornerstone of science fiction and thought provoking look at the possible destiny of humanity.

The Time Machine first appeared in 1896 and stunned readers... Read Full Overview

The Time Machine offers a post-apocalyptic vision of humanity's future. A scientist builds a time machine and travels to future.

He finds that humanity has devolved into two races: the childlike Eloi and the monstrous Morlocks. His machine disappears, so... Read Full Overview

The revolutionary novel that catapulted readers into the future, from the father of science fiction, H.G. Wells. "I've had a most amazing time...." So begins the Time Traveller's astonishing firsthand account of his journey eight hundred thousand years beyond his own era--and... Read Full Overview

Under Nina Baym's direction, the editors have considered afresh each selection and all the apparatus to make the anthology an even better teaching tool.

H.G. Wells best-selling classic THE TIME MACHINE.