The Time Machine (Penguin Classics)
by H.G. Wells
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Author: H.G. WellsEditor: Steve McLean
Editor: Patrick Parrinder
Introduction: Marina Warner
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-05-31
ISBN: 0141439971
Number of pages: 128
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Book Review: Masterful
Summary: 5 Stars
A dinner party is set in an uproar, when the host, a brilliant inventor, unveils his latest invention, a time machine. The next week's party is even more upset when the inventor stumbles in, dirty and damaged, telling the story of a trip some 800,800 years into the future. There he met a world inhabited by two degenerated races of human beings: the Eloi, beautiful and childlike in intelligence, and the Morlocks, vicious and bestial.
Having seen the movie, I had thought that I knew this story, and that there would be no surprises. I was very wrong! This book is masterfully written, and fascinating to read. The political satire of this work is somewhat out of date, but does not damage the story. Overall, I did enjoy this story, and recommend it to everyone!
Summary of The Time Machine (Penguin Classics)
When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year a.d. 802,701, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment, and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realizes that these beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture-now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. They have every reason to be afraid: in deep tunnels beneath their paradise lurks another race descended from humanity-the sinister Morlocks. And when the scientist's time machine vanishes, it becomes clear he must search these tunnels if he is ever to return to his own era.-Includes a newly established text, a full biographical essay on Wells, a list of further reading, and detailed notes -Marina Warner's introduction considers Wells's development of the "scientific romance" and places the novel in the context of its time
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