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Cargando... The Time Machine [Norton Critical Edition]por H. G. Wells
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. H.G. Wells is amazing. His writing is intelligent pulp before the phrase pulp was coined. He never fails to get right into the action. However he does tend to leave, at times, more than enough room for imagination. The Time Machine is no exception. Like most of his work, it is quick and too the point. This particular story comes across much darker than others as he reminds the reader that science is wonderful, but it can also get you into heaps of trouble. ( ) I listened to this book on a CD from the library. Wanting to visit some old classics that I have never taken the opportunity to read, I found this book a bit disappointing. There was no real "action, adventure, or romance." The author builds a time machine and travels 800,000 years into the future where he finds that the human race has split into two separate species - the Eoli and the Morlocks. The Eoli are frail, fragile child-like people who are simple minded and feed on fruit and flowers. Their easy life over the period of hundreds of years has left them weak and helpless. The Morlocks live below ground and are the laborers of the world who live in complete darkness and prey upon the Eoli. The author compares the species to the "haves" and the "have nots" After observing the living conditions of both species, he flees into the world 30 million years into the future and sees the end of the world as a result of a dying sun. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Intrigued by the possibilities of time travel as a student and inspired as a journalist by the great scientific advances of the Victorian Age, Wells drew on his own scientific publications--on evolution, degeneration, species extinction, geologic time, and biology--in writing The Time Machine. This Norton Critical Edition is based on the first London edition of the novel. It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations and "A Note on the Text.""Backgrounds and Contexts" is organized thematically into four sections: "The Evolution of The Time Machine" presents alternative versions and installments and excerpts of the author's time-travel story; "Wells's Scientific Journalism (1891-94)" focuses on the scientific topics central to the novel; "Wells on The Time Machine" reprints the prefaces to the 1924, 1931, and 1934 editions; and "Scientific and Social Contexts" collects five widely read texts by the Victorian scientists and social critics Edwin Ray Lankester, Thomas Henry Huxley, Benjamin Kidd, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), and Balfour Stewart and Peter Guthrie Tait."Criticism" includes three important early reviews of The Time Machine from the Spectator, the Daily Chronicle, and Pall Mall Magazine as well as eight critical essays that reflect our changing emphases in reading and appreciating this futuristic novel. Contributors include Yevgeny Zamyatin, Bernard Bergonzi, Kathryn Hume, Elaine Showalter, John Huntington, Paul A. Cantor and Peter Hufnagel, Colin Manlove, and Roger Luckhurst.A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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