The Time Machine : Om Illustrated Classics

H G Wells

1/2015 · Om Books International

Táto e‑kniha

  The Time Machine is one of the most influential science fiction
novels of all time. It is an adventure story documenting the Time
Traveller’s travel into the future by a machine constructed by him.
Once there, he discovered that society, as he knows it, has fallen
into ruins. All that is left are remnants of crumbling buildings and
overgrown vegetation. He comes in contact with two species instead
of modern humans. Much of the novel concerns the Time Traveller’s
horrifying discovery of this divided world. It gradually becomes
apparent that the novel is more than an adventure story; it is also
a parable about the ultimate kind of society stratified by class, by
those who have and those who do not.
The book is a work of great imagination that can be read and
appreciated by fans of both Science Fiction and Non-Science Fiction.

O autorovi

H. G. Wells was born in Bromley, England on September 21, 1866. After a limited education, he was apprenticed to a draper, but soon found he wanted something more out of life. He read widely and got a position as a student assistant in a secondary school, eventually winning a scholarship to the Royal College of Science in South Kensington, where he studied biology. He graduated from London University in 1888 and became a science teacher. He also wrote for magazines. When his stories began to sell, he left teaching to write full time. He became an author best known for science fiction novels and comic novels. His science fiction novels include The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Wonderful Visit, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The First Men in the Moon, and The Food of the Gods. His comic novels include Love and Mr. Lewisham, Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul, The History of Mr. Polly, and Tono-Bungay. He also wrote several short story collections including The Stolen Bacillus, The Plattner Story, and Tales of Space and Time. He died on August 13, 1946 at the age of 79.