The Time Machine

H. G. Wells
Edited by Roger Luckhurst

Oxford World's Classics

• It is the 150th anniversary of H. G. Wells's birth in 2016
• Uses first 1895 book edition, but tracks Wells's changes from earlier serialisations, since the book had a very long and complicated pre-publication history
• Contextual introduction by leading scholar of late Victorian popular fiction
• Includes appendix with excised longer version of Wells's vision for the death of the planet
• Contains additional two essays by Wells on the same themes, 'Zoological Retrogression' (1891) and 'On Extinction' (1893)

The Time Machine

H. G. Wells
Edited by Roger Luckhurst

Oxford World's Classics

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The Time Machine

H. G. Wells
Edited by Roger Luckhurst

Oxford World's Classics

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The Time Machine

H. G. Wells
Edited by Roger Luckhurst

Oxford World's Classics

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The Time Machine: an audio guide

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.

Posted on January 30, 2017

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The making of Wells: from Bertie to H. G.

Youthful Bertie Wells was understandably depressed in the depths of winter in early 1888. He had escaped the drudgery of being a draper's apprentice with a scholarship, only to flunk his second-year university exams and lose his funding to the Normal School of Science in Kensington.

Posted on January 16, 2017

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The Time Machine

H. G. Wells
Edited by Roger Luckhurst

Oxford World's Classics

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