{"product_id":"the-time-machine-paperback-2","title":"The Time Machine - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eH. G. Wells\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGreg Bear\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eSimon James\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe revolutionary novel that catapulted readers into the future, from the father of science fiction, H.G. Wells. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I've had a most amazing time....\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e So begins the Time Traveller's astonishing firsthand account of his journey eight hundred thousand years beyond his own era--and the story that launched H. G. Wells's successful career. With a speculative leap that still fires the imagination, Wells sends his brave explorer to face a future burdened with our greatest hopes...and our darkest fears. A pull of the Time Machine's lever propels him to the age of a slowly dying Earth. There he discovers two bizarre races--the ethereal Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks--who not only symbolize the duality of human nature, but offer a terrifying portrait of tomorrow as well. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Published in 1895, this masterpiece of invention captivated readers on the threshold of a new century. Thanks to Wells's expert storytelling and provocative insight, \u003ci\u003eThe Time Machine\u003c\/i\u003e will continue to enthrall readers for generations to come. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eWith an Introduction by Greg Bear\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eand an Afterword by Simon J. James\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHerbert George Wells \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Bromley, Kent, England, on September 21, 1866. His father was a professional cricketer and sometime shopkeeper, his mother a former lady's maid. Although \"Bertie\" left school at fourteen to become a draper's apprentice (a life he detested), he later won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in London, where he studied with the famous Thomas Henry Huxley. He began to sell articles and short stories regularly in 1893. In 1895, his immediately successful novel \u003ci\u003eThe Time Machine\u003c\/i\u003e rescued him from a life of penury on a schoolteacher's salary. His other \"scientific romances\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Island\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eof Dr. Moreau\u003c\/i\u003e (1896), \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Man\u003c\/i\u003e (1897), \u003ci\u003eThe War of the Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e (1898), \u003ci\u003eThe First Men in the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e (1901), and \u003ci\u003eThe War in the Air\u003c\/i\u003e (1908)--won him distinction as the father of science fiction. Henry James saw in Wells the most gifted writer of the age, but Wells, having coined the phrase \"the war that will end war\" to describe World War I, became increasingly disillusioned and focused his attention on educating mankind with his bestselling \u003ci\u003eOutline of History\u003c\/i\u003e (1920) and his later utopian works. Living until 1946, Wells witnessed a world more terrible than any of his imaginative visions, and he bitterly observed: \"Reality has taken a leaf from my book and set itself to supercede me.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eGreg Bear\u003c\/b\u003e's novels and stories have appeared in more than twenty languages worldwide and have won numerous prizes, including two Hugos, five Nebulas, and the Prix Apollo. His novels include \u003ci\u003eDarwin's Radio\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the Nebula and Endeavor awards), \u003ci\u003eDarwin's Children\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVitals\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlood Music\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eQueen of Angels\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMoving Mars\u003c\/i\u003e. He has served as a consultant and a lecturer on space and defense policy, biotechnology and bioterrorism, multimedia entertainment, and Internet issues. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSimon J. James\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Victorian Literature at the Department of English Studies, Durham University. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Wellsian, \u003c\/i\u003ethe peer-reviewed scholarly journal of the H.G. Wells Society. He has edited four H.G. Wells novels for the Penguin Classics, as well as George Gissing's \u003ci\u003eCharles Dickens: A Critical Study\u003c\/i\u003e. James is the author of \u003ci\u003eMaps of Utopia: H.G. Wells, Modernity and the End of Culture\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eUnsettled Accounts: Money and Narrative Form in the Novels of George Gissing.\u003c\/i\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 6.7 x 4.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 04, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47227742683385,"sku":"9780451470706","price":6.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/RVkzOGNneGRFa0ZKa1l0cXJZS3g4QT09.webp?v=1768285420","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-time-machine-paperback-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}