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...
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Title: The Time Machine
Author: H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Release Date: October 2, 2004 [EBook #35]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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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...
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The English author Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) began his career as a novelist with a popular sequence of science fiction that remains the most familiar part of his work. He later wrote realistic ...
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"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...
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H. 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 the realistic ...
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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...
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Herbert George Wells was one of the most prolific and most popular writers of short fiction of his era and of the twentieth century. Some of his longer fictions, such as The Time Machine: An Invention...
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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...
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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...
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In the following essay, Derry investigates possible contemporary literary influences on Wells's novella The Time Machine, including works by Edward Bellamy, William Morris, and E. G. E. Bulwer-...
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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...
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In the following essay, Scafella detects certain parallels between The Time Machine and the fable of Oedipus and the Sphinx.
The fable [of the Sphinx] is an elegant and a wise one, invented apparen...
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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....
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In the following essay, Begiebing discusses the Time Traveller as the archetype of the mythic hero.
In 1915 Van Wyck Brooks hinted at an important quality of H. G. Wells's vision when he sai...
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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...
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In the following essay, Hume investigates the function of oral fantasies and imagery in The Time Machine.
“It is very remarkable that this is so extensively overlooked,” says the Time...
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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...
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In the following essay, Parrinder explores the significance of time travel in Wells's fiction, particularly The Time Machine.
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Towards the end of The Time Machine, the Traveller finishes th...
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In the following essay, Parrington provides a sociopolitical interpretation of The Time Machine.
H. G. Wells intended The Time Machine to be a polemic on the inevitability of a working-class rise t...
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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...
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In the following essay, Philmus analyzes Wells's own observations on The Time Machine and provides a stylistic examination of the novella.
The statements that H. G. Wells gave out in the twe...
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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...
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In the following essay, originally published in French in 1971, Vernier describes the variations of The Time Machine and discusses its universal appeal at the time of its publication.
The Time Mach...
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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,...
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In the following essay, originally delivered as a speech in 1976, Niederland considers the influence of Wells's childhood and personal experiences on The Time Machine.
One of the most influe...
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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...
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In the following essay, Parrinder views William Morris's News from Nowhere and Wells's The Time Machine as “symptoms of cultural upheaval,” particularly the end of classica...
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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 ...
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In the following essay, Hennelly relates Wells's scientific writings to his The Time Machine and explores different aspects of the novella, particularly the roles of the Narrator and Time Trave...
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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...
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The Time Machine is a short but interesting sci-fi book about a Time Traveller who builds a time machine and travels through time in it. The Time Traveller goes through eight days in a strange futuris...
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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...
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In "The Time Machine" all of the basic plot revolves around one man's great invention of the time machine. The main character in this story is the Time Traveller, who tells his amazing adventures to h...
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Teaching The Time Machine
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The Time Machine Lesson Plans contain 147 pages of teaching material, including:
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Here's a whole manual full of puzzles, games, and worksheets related to the novel! It includes: 1 unit word list & clues, 4 unit fill in the blank worksheets, 4 unit multiple choice worksheets, 4 u...
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Here's a whole manual full of puzzles, games, and worksheets related to the novel! It includes: 1 unit word list and clues, 4 unit fill in the blank worksheets, 4 unit multiple choice worksheets, 4...
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Thirty-five reproducible activities per guide reinforce basic reading and comprehension skills while teaching higher-order critical thinking. Also included are teaching suggestions, background note...
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Containing 11 reproducible exercises to maximize vocabulary development and comprehension skills, these guides include pre-and post-reading activities, story synopses, key vocabulary, and answer ke...
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