The Time Machine And Other Stories

Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473345713

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The Time Machine and Other Stories by H. G. Wells Pdf

This book is a collection of eight short stories written by H. G. Wells. "The Short Stories of H. G. Wells" constitutes a must-have for lovers of the short storm form and is not to be missed by fans of Wells' fantastic work. Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946) was a prolific English writer who wrote in a variety of genres, including the novel, politics, history, and social commentary. Today, he is perhaps best remembered for his contributions to the science fiction genre thanks to such novels as "The Time Machine" (1895), "The Invisible Man" (1897), and "The War of the Worlds" (1898). "The Father of Science Fiction" was also a staunch socialist, and his later works are increasingly political and didactic. The stories include: "The Time Machine", "The Empire of the Ants", "A Vision of Judgement", "The Land Ironclads", The Beautiful Suit", "The Door in the Wall", "The Pearl of Love", and "The Country of the Blind". Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9782384370016

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The Time Machine illustrated by H. G. Wells Pdf

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells is a science fiction classic, which lends itself well to visualization. This version, illustrated by Yoann Laurent-Rouault, an illustrator master who graduated from the Beaux-Arts, and published in the international literary collection Memoria Books, is a reference on the time travel theme. Wells transports us in the year 802 701, in a society made up of the “Elois”, who live peacefully in a kind of big Garden of Eden, eating fruits and sleeping high up, while underground lives another species, also descending from men, the “Morlocks”, who do not stand the light anymore, living in the dark for too long now. At night, they return to the surface, going back up by the wells, in order to kidnap some Elois that they eat ; these last became livestock unknowingly. In The Time Machine, made into a movie several times, the last of them in 2002 by Simon Wells, the great-grandson of H. G. Wells, time is both a pretext to move the class struggle and warn... and also, in a way, a full character, who fascinates, arbitrates, transcends... The illustrations come to reinforce the time travel and provide a new experience to the reader.

Author : Melinda Szymanik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0995119740

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The Time Machine and Other Stories by Melinda Szymanik Pdf

What happens when you sleep with a crocodile tooth under your pillow, or the mess under your bed turns into something terrifying? How can a football be a passport, and what does it mean when the contraption in the basement starts to hum and glow? You can be sure the answers will never be boring and almost always take you on an unexpected adventure. Step aboard the time machine and discover new and selected stories by the award-winning author of The Were-Nana, The Song of Kauri and A Winter's Day in 1939.

Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
Page : 1038 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1985-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0590085972

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The Time Machine and Other Stories by H. G. Wells Pdf

Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : Memorable Classics Books
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Time Machine by H. G. Wells Pdf

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells - The Time Machine by H. G. Wells - The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle or device to travel purposely and selectively forward or backward through time. The term "time machine", coined by Wells, is now almost universally used to refer to such a vehicle or device. Utilizing a frame story set in then-present Victorian England, Wells' text focuses on a recount of the otherwise anonymous Time Traveller's journey into the far future. A work of future history and speculative evolution, Time Machine is interpreted in modern times as a commentary on the increasing inequality and class divisions of Wells' era, which he projects as giving rise to two separate human species: the fair, childlike Eloi, and the savage, simian Morlocks, distant descendants of the contemporary upper and lower classes respectively. It is believed that Wells' depiction of the Eloi as a race living in plentitude and abandon was inspired by the utopic romance novel News from Nowhere (1890), though Wells' universe in the novel is notably more savage and brutal.

Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : Classics Illustrated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Graphic novels
ISBN : 1911238264

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The Time Machine by H. G. Wells Pdf

The Time Machine is a science fiction tale by H.G. Wells, published in 1895, and is considered by many to be one of the greatest works of science fiction ever created. After inventing a machine that can move through time, the Traveler leaves Victorian London and goes far into the future. The world he discovers seems calm and quiet but as the Traveler looks below the surface he realizes that things are not exactly as they appear. Thought provoking and beautifully illustrated, this classic captures the imagination of readers of all ages and inspires a love of literature and reading.

Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : eBookIt.com
Page : 3299 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781456614645

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The Time Machine and Other Novels by H. G. Wells Pdf

Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by H. G. Wells: The Time Machine War of the Worlds The Island of Doctor Moreau The First Men in the Moon The Invisible Man Country of the Blind Door in the Wall and Others Tono Bungay

Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547399605

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The Time Machine + The Invisible Man + The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells Pdf

H.G. Wells is an English author best known as a sci-fi writer, though he was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, and even writing text books and rules for war games. The first great novel to imagine time travel, The Time Machine (1895) follows its scientist narrator on an incredible journey that takes him finally to Earth's last moments—and perhaps his own. The scientist who discovers how to transform himself in The Invisible Man (1897) will also discover, too late, that he has become unmoored from society and from his own sanity. The War of the Worlds (1898)—the seminal masterpiece of alien invasion adapted by Orson Welles for his notorious 1938 radio drama, and subsequently by several filmmakers—imagines a fierce race of Martians who devastate Earth and feed on their human victims while their voracious vegetation, the red weed, spreads over the ruined planet...

Author : Joe Haldeman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0441016162

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The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman Pdf

NOW IN PAPERBACK-FROM THE AUTHOR OF MARSBOUND Grad- school dropout Matt Fuller is toiling as a lowly research assistant at MIT when he inadvertently creates a time machine. With a dead-end job and a girlfriend who left him for another man, Matt has nothing to lose in taking a time-machine trip himself-or so he thinks.

Author : Jw Schnarr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0973483733

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Timelines: Stories Inspired by H.G. Wells' the Time Machine by Jw Schnarr Pdf

So I travelled, stopping ever and again, in great strides of a thousand years or more, drawn on by the mystery of the earth's fate, watching with a strange fascination the sun grow larger and duller in the westward sky, and the life of the old earth ebb away... These words marked the passing of the man known only as The Time Traveler as he sailed across the span of Earth's timeline and into its final years. First published in 1895, The Time Machine by Herbert George (H.G.) Wells is a blueprint for science fiction and horror that persists to this day: underneath the science and the theories that attract a reader's mind, there is an underlying story of a person who struggles with the question that burns in the heart of every man: what does it all mean? Now is your chance to find out. In an anthology spanning the entire human history and reaching far into its future, witness bold new visions of man's quest to conquer the fourth dimension. Including: A man enters a virtual past and discovers his future...A historian rewriting a new history will find a way to restore the fragmented past...The Time Traveler witnesses the end of the universe with a companion who may not be altogether human...Find out what happens when Time Travel technology falls into the wrong hands...A man shows just how much damage to the past a single bullet can do if the target is the right one. Looking for great horror and science fiction? Take a Trip Through Terror! Wells Unleashed: Book 2.

Author : John Swartzwelder
Publisher : Zebra Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Humorous stories
ISBN : UVA:X004943523

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The Time Machine Did it by John Swartzwelder Pdf

"Comical novel about Detective Frank Burly who get gets embroiled in time travel and criminal activity during his attempts at helping his new client--Wikipedia

Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Scientists
ISBN : 9781402745829

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The Time Machine by H. G. Wells Pdf

A scientist invents a time machine and uses it to travel to the year 802,701 A.D., where he discovers the childlike Eloi and the hideous underground Morlocks.

Author : Christina Lupton
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421425771

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Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century by Christina Lupton Pdf

How did eighteenth-century readers find and make time to read? Books have always posed a problem of time for readers. Becoming widely available in the eighteenth century—when working hours increased and lighter and quicker forms of reading (newspapers, magazines, broadsheets) surged in popularity—the material form of the codex book invited readers to situate themselves creatively in time. Drawing on letters, diaries, reading logs, and a range of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century novels, Christina Lupton’s Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century concretely describes how book-readers of the past carved up, expanded, and anticipated time. Placing canonical works by Elizabeth Inchbald, Henry Fielding, Amelia Opie, and Samuel Richardson alongside those of lesser-known authors and readers, Lupton approaches books as objects that are good at attracting particular forms of attention and paths of return. In contrast to the digital interfaces of our own moment and the ephemeral newspapers and pamphlets read in the 1700s, books are rarely seen as shaping or keeping modern time. However, as Lupton demonstrates, books are often put down and picked up, they are leafed through as well as read sequentially, and they are handed on as objects designed to bridge temporal distances. In showing how discourse itself engages with these material practices, Lupton argues that reading is something to be studied textually as well as historically. Applying modern theorists such as Niklas Luhmann, Bruno Latour, and Bernard Stiegler, Lupton offers a rare phenomenological approach to the study of a concrete historical field. This compelling book stands out for the combination of archival research, smart theoretical inquiry, and autobiographical reflection it brings into play.

Author : Lee Nordling
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781621155676

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Once Upon a Time Machine by Lee Nordling Pdf

Fairy tales have fueled our dreams and fired our imaginations for centuries. Step inside a time machine built by a collection of today's finest storytellers, and enter a range of futures where familiar tales are reimagined in an astonishing variety of styles. Editors Andrew Carl and Chris Stevens bring you the next wave of leading writers and illustrators working alongside superstar creators like Farel Dalrymple (Pop Gun War), Ryan Ottley (Invincible), Khoi Pham (Daredevil), and Brandon Graham (King City) to deliver a reading experience that will delight generations young and old. * Ageless stories become tales for a new age!

Author : Jason Offutt
Publisher : CamCat Publishing, LLC
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780744300178

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So You Had To Build A Time Machine by Jason Offutt Pdf

Skid doesn’t believe in ghosts or time travel or any of that nonsense. A circus runaway-turned-bouncer, she believes in hard work, self-defense, and good strong coffee. Then one day an annoying theoretical physicist named Dave pops into the seat next to her at her least favorite Kansas City bar and disappears into thin air when she punches him (he totally deserved it). Now, street names are changing, Skid’s favorite muffins are swapping frosting flavors, Dave keeps reappearing in odd places like the old Sanderson murder house—and that’s only the start of her problems. Something has gone wrong. Terribly wrong. Absolutely &#*$&ed up. Someone has the nastiest versions of every conceivable reality at their fingertips, and they're not afraid to smash them together. With the help of a smooth-talking haunted house owner and a linebacker-sized Dungeons and Dragons-loving baker, Skid and Dave set out to save the world from whatever scientific experiment has sent them all dimension-hopping against their will. It probably means the world is screwed.