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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Wells at his finest ahead of his time and going well beyond our time. The name is of course familiar but the creativity and vision is amazing--especially when trying to read him as if you are of his time trying to grasp these ideas for the first time. Remarkably unsettling with a great ending--moving right on to another of his books. Some time later I am still thinking about the ending--a nice feat for a book written over a hundred years ago. Feels tossed off, but keeps creeping back into my mind that he didn't time travel again because he couldn't resist it, but chose to time travel again because he could no longer live in his current time. Not a choice, but his only option. ( ) This was a 2023 Santathing Book, and it was the perfect size and topic for an easy read for after Christmas. I wasn't expecting much, I've seen one or two movies based on this book, and wasn't interested in a basic adventure story. However, I was very wrong about this book. It is most definitely a product of its time, with Industrial Revolution being taken to non-nonsensical ends, but I was surprised with the humanity found in this. The narrator is definitely a product of his time, but he fought it, basically trying to understand the Morlocks, getting past his revulsion for them. Thoroughly enjoyed the book. However, would not recommend for people who do not like Philosophy. The main character presents his experience very conceptually, making hypotheses to explain his surroundings. Though this may not appeal to many people, I found this approach clever, scientific, and humble. A quick read. Meh. I don't really have much to say on this as I'm pretty disappointed. Like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, it's one of those brilliant ideas for a novel that ended up very poorly written. I read that Wells rushed this one because he needed the money. I think it's the TIME in which he wrote it that made it so marvelous---because, nowadays, I can't see this even getting published without some major filling in of the story.
Without question The Time Machine... will take its place among the great stories of our language. Like all excellent works it has meanings within its meaning and no one who has read the story will forget the dramatic effect of the change of scene in the middle of the book, when the story alters its key, and the Time Traveller reveals the foundation of slime and horror on which the pretty life of his Arcadians is precariously and fearfully resting... The Arcadians had become as pretty as flowers in their pursuit of personal happiness. They had dwindled and would be devoured because of that. Their happiness itself was haunted. Here Wells’s images of horror are curious. The slimy, the viscous, the foetal reappear; one sees the sticky, shapeless messes of pond life, preposterous in instinct and frighteningly without mind. One would like to hear a psychologist on these shapes which recall certain surrealist paintings; but perhaps the biologist fishing among the algas, and not the unconscious, is responsible for them. Belongs to Publisher SeriesAirmont Classics (CL44) — 33 more Club Joven Bruguera (42) detebe (67/3) El País. Aventuras (21) Everyman's Library (915) Gallimard, Folio (587) Gallimard, Folio SF (73) Gollancz 50 Top Ten (10) Lanterne (L 226) Penguin Audiobooks (PEN 174) Penguin English Library, 2012 series (2012-05) Reclams Universal-Bibliothek (9176) SF Masterworks (New design) Tus Libros. Anaya (18) Γράμματα / Λογοτεχνία (061) Is contained inSeven Famous Novels of H. G. Wells: Time Machine / Island of Dr. Moreau / Invisible Man / War of the Worlds / First Men in the Moon / Food of the Gods / In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells Four Complete Novels: The Time Machine; The Island of Dr. Moreau; The Invisible Man; The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A: The Greatest Science Fiction Novellas of All Time by Ben Bova The Science Fiction Hall Of Fame Volumes Two A and B by Ben Bova (indirect) The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume I, IIA, IIB, the Greatest Science Fiction Novellas of All Time (Boxed Set, in Slipcase) by Robert Silverberg (indirect) Three Prophetic Science Fiction Novels: When the Sleeper Wakes; A Story of the Days to Come; The Time Machine by H. G. Wells Die Zeitmaschine / Kinder der Sterne / Der Unsichtbare / Die Riesen kommen / Menschen, Göttern gleich / Die Insel des Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells Is retold inHas the (non-series) sequelHas the adaptationIs abridged inIs parodied inInspiredHas as a reference guide/companionHas as a student's study guideAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, from 1895, popularized the idea of a vehicle that allows its user to travel intentionally and selectively across time, and indeed Wells is credited with coining the very term "time machine." The Time Traveler of this novella tests his time machine with a leap forward to the year 802,701 A.D., to find that evolution has produced two very different post-human races - the peaceful and childlike fruit-eating Eloi and the Morlocks - pale, darkness-dwelling troglodites who operate the underground machinery that makes this seeming paradise possible. No library descriptions found. |
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