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Summary: Traveler
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The turn of the century was a period when people often debated the future of mankind. Wells beginning by introducing the Time Traveler as he presented his time machine invention to a group of disbelieving men. The plot is simple the Time Traveler zooms into the future expecting to be emerge into a sort of technological paradise. He is utterly surprised. Above the ground, the earths populated by Elio, they are a short, round, angelical people who live in complete leisure, picking flowers and eating only fruit. They have perfected their bodies, so they do not have gastronomical problems with this fruit diet. Underground, however, thrives the Morlocks. They are beastly looking people that provide clothing to the Eloi before eating them. When the Traveler arrived in his box-like machine, it was this evil underclass that stole his time machine, which took him eight days and a thousand discoveries to find. Now that he knows were it is he tries to get it back before the Morlocks kill him. Will he be able to make it or will the he die trying. The thin plot is just enough to entertain the reader and remain uninhibitive to H. G. Wells's ideas on the development of society. Many of his views can clearly be able to see them. Any serious reader will agree with me that the points of view the Time Traveler had, seems to be the same today, and some of the questions are still unanswer
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Summary: H. G. Wells' first novel
Review: Herbert George Wells wrote "The Time Machine" in 1895; it was his first science fiction novel, and has remained one of his best. Churning out a number of popularized Hollywood flicks, and influencing countless other science fiction stories and shows involving time travel, this is one of his best-known books. We see an un-named character, known throughout the text only as 'the Time Traveller,' setting forth in his machine to the year 802,701 A.D., encountering a situation that is far more sinister than the years he has left behind. Throughout his life -- up to the tragic day that he died -- Wells was pessimistic about the future (relfected throughout his many prolific works). In "The Time Machine," the Traveller himself does not care much for the age in which he lives, so he sets forth into the future, to perhaps see advancements and development in humanity, away from the stupidity of Nineteenth-Century England. Instead, he finds humanity -- or specifically, the descendants of past humans -- worse off than before, having probably grown too comfortable and at ease with themselves, letting intellect and ingenuity to fester. This passivity enabled the Morlocks, underworld inhabitants who watch over the meek Eloi (descendants of humans living on the surface) to enslave them (as cattle, for they are cannibals, as becomes quite clear in the book). Violence and disaster erupt, thanks to the intervening Time Traveller. The social parodies made clear in Wells' book are brilliant examples of his talent and merit, though they are striking; there definitely were echoing uproars from Wells' parodies made with the Eloi and Morlocks as representing class differences in Victorian (and later Edwardian) England. Questions relating to human progress imbue the novel, as do questions relating to whether or not a world infested with problems truly is worse than a world without any trouble; will the halo-shining Utopia truly come true, or will stagnation ensue, heightening and exacerbating our vulnerability to future Morlock-like forces? This Modern Library release is a reissue of an interesting 1931 illustrated edition of "The Time Machine," so while it is an excellent read, it is also an interesting historical piece in itself. H. G. Wells, in a preface to this book, called it the work of an amateur (p. XIX), yet he expressed his delight that it had outlived some of his other pieces. Quite simply, this book will continue outliving many others for generations to come.
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Summary: H. G. Wells' first novel
Review: Herbert George Wells wrote "The Time Machine" in 1895; it was his first science fiction novel, and has remained one of his best. Churning out a number of popularized Hollywood flicks, and influencing countless other science fiction stories and shows involving time travel, this is one of his best-known books. We see an un-named character, known throughout the text only as 'the Time Traveller,' setting forth in his machine to the year 802,701 A.D., encountering a situation that is far more sinister than the years he has left behind. Throughout his life -- up to the tragic day that he died -- Wells was pessimistic about the future (relfected throughout his many prolific works). In "The Time Machine," the Traveller himself does not care much for the age in which he lives, so he sets forth into the future, to perhaps see advancements and development in humanity, away from the stupidity of Nineteenth-Century England. Instead, he finds humanity -- or specifically, the descendants of past humans -- worse off than before, having probably grown too comfortable and at ease with themselves, letting intellect and ingenuity to fester. This passivity enabled the Morlocks, underworld inhabitants who watch over the meek Eloi (descendants of humans living on the surface) to enslave them (as cattle, for they are cannibals, as becomes quite clear in the book). Violence and disaster erupt, thanks to the intervening Time Traveller. The social parodies made clear in Wells' book are brilliant examples of his talent and merit, though they are striking; there definitely were echoing uproars from Wells' parodies made with the Eloi and Morlocks as representing class differences in Victorian (and later Edwardian) England. Questions relating to human progress imbue the novel, as do questions relating to whether or not a world infested with problems truly is worse than a world without any trouble; will the halo-shining Utopia truly come true, or will stagnation ensue, heightening and exacerbating our vulnerability to future Morlock-like forces? This Modern Library release is a reissue of an interesting 1931 illustrated edition of "The Time Machine," so while it is an excellent read, it is also an interesting historical piece in itself. H. G. Wells, in a preface to this book, called it the work of an amateur (p. XIX), yet he expressed his delight that it had outlived some of his other pieces. Quite simply, this book will continue outliving many others for generations to come.
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Summary: A glimpse of what is to come
Review: The Time Machine is a story of a man who prophesized the future. H.G Wells did a great job of setting up the plot of the story and also added a few action scenes. When the main character had went far enough into the future, he discovered a society of mindless people. They did no thinking, just sat around. He found a library of books which hadn't been touched in perhaps a thousand years. Perhaps H.G Wells has given us an insight to our future, or maybe the book is just science fuction. You can read this novel and make that decision for yourself.
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Summary: A glimpse of what is to come
Review: The Time Machine is a story of a man who prophesized the future. H.G Wells did a great job of setting up the plot of the story and also added a few action scenes. When the main character had went far enough into the future, he discovered a society of mindless people. They did no thinking, just sat around. He found a library of books which hadn't been touched in perhaps a thousand years. Perhaps H.G Wells has given us an insight to our future, or maybe the book is just science fuction. You can read this novel and make that decision for yourself.
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Summary: Great novel, poor spelling
Review: The Time Machine is probably my all-time favorite science fiction novel, so I jumped at the chance to purchase the "critical text" when it became available. Unfortunately as I read the text I found spelling errors in it! For fifty bucks and a critical edition, you'd think the editor and publisher would take more care. The introduction, annotations, and appendices were worth the price, but simple spelling errors cannot be excused. For the novel: five stars. For the editing job, 1.
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Summary: Great novel, poor spelling
Review: The Time Machine is probably my all-time favorite science fiction novel, so I jumped at the chance to purchase the "critical text" when it became available. Unfortunately as I read the text I found spelling errors in it! For fifty bucks and a critical edition, you'd think the editor and publisher would take more care. The introduction, annotations, and appendices were worth the price, but simple spelling errors cannot be excused. For the novel: five stars. For the editing job, 1.
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Summary: The Time Machine
Review: This book is about a man who invented a time machine and he travel into the time to the future.He travel from the year 1895 to the year 802,701. He noticed that the people in that year is totally different from the time he was coming from. The people had the same types of clothes, the shoes and they were little people. He had a really bad time in there because he lost the time machine and other people who lived underground get it but he had to fight for it. When he finally got it, he travel; instead of back, he travel millions of years forward, but he then put the year he want it and he return to the year 1985 where he started from, and then he later travel again but since then 3 years had past and the time traveler hadn't got back....
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Summary: The Time Machine, an Invention
Review: Traveler
The Time Machine, an Invention
By: H. G. Wells/ Modern Library
During the last century time took place in one big controversy when people often debated about its existence. Wells introduces the story by presenting the Time Traveler, who is the protagonist. He is showing his great invention to a group of men that does not share his ideas, the Time Machine. When trying to test his machine the Time Traveler zooms into the future expecting to be emerge into a sort of technological paradise; but the surprise is big when he sees himself into a place populated by some sort of short and round creatures known as Elois. This angelical people who lived in complete leisure, picking flowers and eating only fruit, because they have develop perfect bodies, live together in large houses and seem to thrive on an indifferent communist society. In the other side, however, the Morlocks populate the underground world. They have a pale beastly looking and they provide clothing to The Eloi before eating them.
When the Traveler in his Time Machine, the evil Murlock presence disturbed the peace and stole the Time Machine. It took the Time Traveler about eight days and thousands of discoveries to find the Machine again. Knowing the exact location of the Machine he tries to get it back while being hunt by the Murlocks. The thin plot is just enough to entertain the reader and retain their attention to H. G. Wells' ideas on the development of society. Many of his points of view Wells say that our present generation is leading to a kind of self destruction which I agreed supporting my thoughts with present events that are devastating our life style.
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