The Time Machine Summary
H. G. Wells

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was born in the southern English town of Bromley, where his parents operated a small shop. The family had little money, but as a boy... Read more

Title:  The Time Machine Author:  H. G. (Herbert George) Wells Release Date:  October 2, 2004 [EBook #35] Language:  English Character set encoding:  ASCII *** Start of this p... Read more

Biography EssayH. G. Wells's earlier works of science fiction have retained their popularity for nearly a century. In recent years they have also won academic regard for integrating the fantastic with... Read more

"The thing the Time Traveller held in his hand was a glittering metallic framework, scarcely larger than a small clock, and very delicately made, There was ivory in it, and some transparent crystallin... Read more

Over a career that spanned five decades, H. G. Wells produced nearly a hundred full-length books, a large portion of them novels and collections of short fiction. In his 1934 autobiography Wells accur... Read more

Fantastic literature has existed as long as literature itself; Renaissance thinkers wrote of utopias and imaginary voyages into space; Jonathan Swift employed the fantastic in Gulliver's Travels (1726... Read more

In the following essay, Sommerville traces the complex chronological structure of The Time Machine, asserting that the accepted chronology of the novella “is erroneous and that the true chronol... Read more

In the following essay, originally published in 1960, Bergonzi underscores the mythical qualities of The Time Machine and outlines the major thematic concerns of the novella. H. G. Wells seems so e... Read more

In the following essay, Huntington perceives Wells's view of life in the future found in The Time Machine as a simplification of issues relevant at the time of the novella's publication.... Read more

In the following essay, Hollinger explores aspects of time travel in literature, contending that The Time Machine achieves an ironic deconstruction of Victorian scientific positivism. Time is, of a... Read more

In the following essay, Cody judges the influence of The Time Machine on William Faulkner's 1950 Nobel Prize speech.          &... Read more

In the following essay, Parrinder explores the significance of time travel in Wells's fiction, particularly The Time Machine. I Towards the end of The Time Machine, the Traveller finishes th... Read more

In the following essay, Hollin discusses The Time Machine as an ecotopian novel. In the following I should like to investigate the relationship between H. G. Wells's The Time Machine and uto... Read more

In the following essay, Willis contends that Thomas Edison could be the inspiration for the character of the Time Traveler in The Time Machine. Critics of H. G. Wells's The Time Machine have... Read more

In the following essay, Eisenstein traces Wells's formulation of the Morlocks and their underground environs in The Time Machine to his childhood home, Atlas House. In The Early H. G. Wells,... Read more

In the following essay, Eisenstein investigates the cycle of evolution as illustrated in The Time Machine. As many critics have observed, H. G. Wells was preoccupied very early with speculations on... Read more

In the following essay, Lake considers Wells's use of imagery in The Time Machine. There is widespread agreement that The Time Machine is H. G. Wells' finest scientific romance; many ... Read more

Flaws in `The Time Machine' The Time Machine is a classic novel. It was written many years ago by H. G. Wells and has been a well-critiqued tale. However, The Time Machine is flawed in a number of w... Read more

In H.G. Wells's The Time Machine, Wells using a lot of description. This becomes very apparent, even in the beginning of the novel. "His grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his usually pale face was f... Read more