The Time Machine (Great Illustrated Classics)

Wells, H. G.

ISBN 10: 1577658043 ISBN 13: 9781577658047

Verlag: Spotlight Publications, 2002

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Book by Wells H G

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A scientist invents a machine that transports him far into the future where he discovers a changed world inhabited by two unusual races, the Eloi and the Morlocks.

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First novel by H.G. Wells, published in book form in 1895. The novel is considered one of the earliest works of science fiction and the progenitor of the "time travel" subgenre. Wells advanced his social and political ideas in this narrative of a nameless Time Traveller who is hurtled into the year 802,701 by his elaborate ivory, crystal, and brass contraption. The world he finds is peopled by two races: the decadent Eloi, fluttery and useless, are dependent for food, clothing, and shelter on the simian subterranean Morlocks, who prey on them. The two races--whose names are borrowed from the Biblical Eli and Moloch--symbolize Wells's vision of the eventual result of unchecked capitalism: a neurasthenic upper class that would eventually be devoured by a proletariat driven to the depths.

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• Verlag: Spotlight Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1577658043
• ISBN 13: 9781577658047
• Einband: Encuadernación de biblioteca
• Anzahl der Seiten: 238