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Time Machine (Graphic Planet) (Reinforced Hardcover)
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Publisher: Graphic Planet
- Illustrator: Ben Dunn
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At a dinner party in suburban London, the Time Traveller, known to the reader only as the Eminent Scientist, speaks to his guests about the fourth dimension of space--i.e. time. He states that it is possible to travel through time much as one travels through space. The guests are not persuaded, even after seeing the Eminent Scientist's time machine itself. At a later dinner party, the scientist arrives a little late, rumpled and dirty. He tells them he has spent the equivalent of eight days in the year 802,701. He encountered the Eloi, a race of delicate gentle vegetarians who exist in an idyllic garden, and the Morlocks, who live underground and operate the machinery and industrial equipment of the world. The Eloi, in other words are descendents of capitalism, and the Morlocks are the progeny of the proletariat. The Time Traveller then hurries into the year 30,000,000, where he sees a single life form--a round, tentacled thing near the ocean. He concludes that this represents the end of life on earth.
Features
- Genre: Fiction & Literature Genres, Fiction & Literature Themes, Juvenile Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Subgenre: Classics, Conflicts & Dualities, General, Literary, Literary Genres & Types of Novels, Social Criticism, Time Travel
- Age: 9-12 years
- Date Published: July 01, 2007
- Release Date: July 01, 2007
- Publisher: Graphic Planet
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Illustrator: Ben Dunn
- Pages: 32
- Format: Library Binding
Additional Information
- DPCI: 248-15-5588
- ASIN: B002ST5IE4
- Catalog #: 11686386
- ISBN: 9781602700543
- Item can be gift wrapped.
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- Estimated Ship Weight: 0.40 pound.
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"'The Time Machine'...is worth reading, if you like to read impossible yarns, and though there is scarcely an effort to make the ****** invention, by means of which the inventor was projected into the year 800,000 of our era, seem likely, the narrative is smartly written, and the philosophy of the thing is at once obvious (which is desirable when a story book has any philosophy) and interesting."
Reviewer: V. S. Pritchett
"Without question 'The Time Machine' is the best piece of writing. It will take its place among the great stories of our language. Like all excellent works it has meanings within its meaning."
Reviewer: Bernard Bergonzi
"Indeed, I would claim that Wells's early fiction is closer to the symbolic romances of Hawthorne or Melville, or to a complex fantasy like 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,' or even to the fables of Kafka, than it is to the more strictly scientific speculations of Verne."
