The Time Machine (Jackdaw Classics) - Softcover
The son of a humble shopkeeper, H G Wells can be justly credited as the father of modern Science Fiction. 'The Time Machine', first published in 1895, still sparkles with that originality and imaginative use of scientific theory which became the hallmark of 'War of the Worlds', 'The Invisible Man', and all the later writings of this literary mastermind.
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About the Author:
H. G. Wells, the third son of a small shopkeeper, was born in Bromley in 1866. After two years' apprenticeship in a draper's shop, he became a pupil-teacher at Midhurst Grammar School and won a scholarship to study under T. H. Huxley at the Normal School of Science, South Kensington. He taught biology before becoming a professional writer and journalist. He wrote more than a hundred books, including novels, essays, histories and programmes for world regeneration. Wells, who rose from obscurity to world fame, had an emotionally and intellectually turbulent life. His prophetic imagination was first displayed in pioneering works of science fiction such as The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897) and The War of the Worlds (1898). Later he became an apostle of socialism, science and progress, whose anticipations of a future world state include The Shape of Things to Come (1933). His controversial views on sexual equality and women's rights were expressed in the novels Ann Veronica (1909) and The New Machiavelli (1911). He was, in Bertrand Russell's words, 'an important liberator of thought and action'. Wells drew on his own early struggles in many of his best novels, including Love and Mr Lewisham (1900), Kipps (1905), Tono-Bungay (1909) and The
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- PublisherJackdaw Publishing
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1908166002
- ISBN 13 9781908166005
- BindingPaperback
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