Book : The Time Machine (oxford Worlds Classics) - Wells, H.

-Titulo Original : The Time Machine (oxford Worlds Classics)

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Oxford University Press

-Descripcion Original:

At a Victorian dinner party in Richmond, London, the Time Traveler returns to tell his extraordinary tale of mankinds future in the year 802,701 AD. It is a dystopian vision of Darwinian evolution, with humans split into an above-ground species of Eloi, and their troglodyte brothers. The first book H. G. Wells published, The Time Machine is a scientific romance that helped invent the genre of science fiction and the time travel story. Even before its serialization had finished in the spring of 1895, Wells had been declared a man of genius, and the book heralded a fifty year career of a major cultural and political controversialist. It is a sardonic rejection of Victorian ideals of progress and improvement and a detailed satirical commentary on the Decadent culture of the 1890s. This edition features a contextual introduction, detailed explanatory notes, and two essays Wells wrote just prior to the publication of his first book. About the Author Roger Luckhurst has written widely on Victorian popular fiction, science fiction and Gothic literature. He has edited Stevensons Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Stokers Dracula, and an anthology of Late Victorian Gothic Tales for Oxford Worlds Classics, and an edition of H. P. Lovecrafts Classic Horror Stories. His books include The Mummys Curse: The True History of a Dark Fantasy (Oxford, 2012).