The Time Machine - H. G. Wells - Penguin Popular Classics

The Time Machine

H. G. Wells

Penguin Popular Classics

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'I had made myself the mostcomplicated and the most hopeles trap that ever a man devised'

When a Victorian scientist propelshimself into the year 802,70 AD, he is initially delighted to find thatsuffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace. Entranced atfirst by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realizes thatthis beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture - now weakand childdishly afraid of the dark. They have every reason to be afraid: indeep tunnels beneath their paradise lurks another race descended from humanity- the sinister Morlocks. And when the scientist's time machine vanishes, it becomesclear he must search these tunnels if the is ever to his own era.

The Time Machine is the first andgreatest modern portrayal of time-travel. Part of a brand-new Penguin series ofH. G. Well's works, this edition includes a newly established text, a fullbiographical essay on Wells, a further reading list and detailed notes. MarinaWarner's introduction considers Wells's development of the 'scientific romance'and places the novel in the context of its times.

Özellikler

Basım Dili:İngilizce

Sayfa Sayısı:104

En / Boy:13,00 / 19,50 cm

Kağıt Cinsi:2. Hamur

Basım Tarihi:2005