The Time Machine was written to make money as well as to make Wells's mark on literature. One technique he uses to hold the interest of readers is to have the Time Traveller relate his story as a marvelous adventure from which he has just returned. The atmosphere thus created gives the narrative the air of a fairy tale, as if he were Sinbad returned from sailing to enchanted lands, or Odysseus back home from his magical voyage through the lands of the cyclops, the sirens, and other mythical beings. Many critics refer to the tone thus created as "mythic,".....
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