![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This edition features a contextual introduction, detailed explanatory notes, and two essays Wells wrote just prior to the publication of his first book. It is a sardonic rejection of Victorian ideals of progress and improvement and a detailed satirical commentary on the Decadent culture of the 1890s. Even before its serialisation had finished in the spring of 1895, Wells had been declared 'a man of genius', and the book heralded a fifty year career of a major cultural and political controversialist. Wells published, The Time Machine is a scientific romance that helped invent the genre of science fiction and the time travel story. The Time Travellers point is made by the very words he uses from the start, first describing a sensation of 'falling,' which is, of course, a rapid descent through space, from a higher to a lower location. It is a dystopian vision of Darwinian evolution, with humans split into an above-ground species of Eloi, and their troglodyte brothers. 'So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-nots, the Workers.'Īt a Victorian dinner party, in Richmond, London, the Time Traveller returns to tell his extraordinary tale of mankind's future in the year 802,701 AD. Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health.The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law. ![]()
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