| Description |
x, 268 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
A Norton critical edition |
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Norton critical edition.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-268). |
| Contents |
Preface -- A note on the text -- The text of The Time Machine -- Backgrounds and contexts -- The evolution of The Time Machine : The Chronic Argonauts (1888) ; Revising The Chronic Argonauts ; National Observer Time Machine (1894) ; Alternate ending : The Last Voyage of the Time Machine ; From New Review Time Machine (1895) ; Cancelled episode : The Return of the Time Traveller -- Wells's scientific journalism (1891-94) : From The Rediscovery of the Unique (1891) ; From Zoological Retrogression (1891) ; On Extinction (1893) ; The Man of the Year Million. A Scientific Forecast (1893) ; The Extinction of Man. Some Speculative Suggestions (1894) ; From The "Cyclic" Delusion (1894) -- Wells on The Time Machine : From Preface to the Atlantic edition of The Time Machine (1924) ; Preface to The Time Machine : An Invention (1931) ; From preface to Seven Famous Novels (1934) -- Scientific and social contexts : From Degeneration : a chapter in Darwinism (1880) / Edwin Ray Lankester ; From The Struggle for Existence : a programme (1888) / Thomas Henry Huxley ; From Social Evolution (1894) / Benjamin Kidd ; From On the Age of the Sun's Heat (1862) / William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) ; From The Unseen Universe (1885) / Balfour Stewart and Peter Guthrie Tait -- Criticism -- Early reviews : In A.D. 802,701, Spectator, July 13, 1895 / Richard Holt Hutton ; A Pilgrim Through Time, Daily Chronicle, July 27,1895 / Unsigned ; (Paradoxes of Time Travel), Pall Mall Magazine, September 1895 / Israel Zangwill -- Recent criticism : (Wells's Urban Fairy Tales) / Yevgeny Zamyatin ; (Wells the Myth-Maker) / Bernard Bergonzi ; Eat or be Eaten : H.G. Wells's Time Machine / Kathryn Hume ; The Apocalyptic Fables of H.G. Wells / Elaine Showalter ; The Time Machine and Wells's Social Trajectory / John Huntington ; The Empire of the Future : Imperialism and Modernism in H.G. Wells / Paul A. Cantor and Peter Hufnagel ; H.G. Wells and the Machine in Victorian Fiction / Colin Manlove ; The Scientific Romance and the Evolutionary Paradigm / Roger Luckhurst -- H.G. Wells : a chronology. |
| Subject |
Time travel -- Fiction.
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Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946. Time machine.
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| Added Author |
Arata, Stephen.
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| ISBN |
9780393927948 paperback |
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0393927946 paperback |
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