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The Time Machine (1895) was the twenty-nine year old H.G. Wells' first real success. He went on to write other classics in science fiction, including The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898) and The First Men in the Moon (1901). Wells also wrote sociological novels and non-fiction works, including his Outline of History (1920) and The Shape of Things to Come (1933).

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Time Machine Essay

I have a week to work on this Essay and i thought i would see what some other people thought, here is the topic: The Time Machine contains a complex explanation of how humanity degenerated into the Morlocks and the Eloi of the future. Examine this theory in detail, and describe the process by which the fictional time-traveler and the real Wells determined what had happened. Which theories, and what kind of reasoning do they use? Keep in mind that the time-traveler makes an inference based on his observations; Wells, on the other hand, speculates about possible future. Thank you for any insite you can give.

Posted By hustead31 at Thu 10 Apr 2008, 11:41 AM in The Time Machine || 0 Replies

utopia/distopia?

Hallo The book is a dystopien novel but need 2 arguments why it is so! i have some ideas and i would like to discuss, and find 2 perfect arguments for my presentation on friday! My ideas: This book is a dystopien novel since it divides mankind into 2 parts who are enemies. One part who used to be the ruling one, and athieved perfection. This perfection made them happy,but it stopped there advance and made them weak. The other part are the ones who were sklaves and are still working on the mashines, they are less happy but for that they have the strength and they are carnivorous, they now are the rulers. It is a war between the 2 kinds of men. this is an idea why it is a dystopien novel! Plz correct me if iam wrong and help me to find further arguments! Thank you!

Posted By bernard at Mon 5 Nov 2007, 4:18 PM in The Time Machine || 0 Replies

Hardcover edition

Does anyone know of a nice hardcover edition? Got this one of amazon but I didnt like it; http://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Machine-New-Windmill/dp/0435120093/ref=pd_bbs_12/203-0361041-0567933?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193416880&sr=8-12 So, if you own a decent hardcover copy, please post publisher, date of publishing or ISBN. Would be much appreciated. Thanks

Posted By Nico87 at Fri 26 Oct 2007, 12:41 PM in The Time Machine || 2 Replies

Time travel?

:idea: Okay lets start a discussion here. Time travel plausible or crazy? Lets see how much life we can give this discussion.

Posted By mosimo at Mon 8 Oct 2007, 12:39 PM in The Time Machine || 6 Replies

Excellent!

Very interesting novel. A definite classic.

Posted By rtumbo at Fri 28 Sep 2007, 8:01 AM in The Time Machine || 0 Replies

Help with this book!!!

Does Anybody know what truth the time traveller is searching for in "the time machine?"

Posted By labstalama at Thu 6 Sep 2007, 7:28 PM in The Time Machine || 2 Replies

the year 802,701 AD

HEllo everybody!! i have to do a presentation about this book,tomorrow at school.... There is one thing that i don't understand... Which year is 802,701 AD?? what does AD mean? please give me a answer!!!!(or my teacher is going to ask me and i'll not know the answer:bawling: )

Posted By Nitli at Wed 30 May 2007, 9:07 AM in The Time Machine || 5 Replies

Connecting

I have a project to do for my Honors Humanities class on The Time Machine and a part of it is connecting it to another book. I haven't read anything else by H.G. Wells yet and I'm at a loss do to stress causing me not to remember any of I have ever read that is similar to The Time Machine or any of the characters. Anybody have any ideas to help me out?

Posted By NotWoodhouse at Mon 21 May 2007, 12:53 AM in The Time Machine || 6 Replies

help translating

Hi all! I'm working on translating "The Time Machine" to my language (Hebrew) but I'm having trouble with a sentence in the first paragraph (I skipped it and coming back now). Anyways, if anyone can explain it to me in a simpler manner it would be greatly appreciated. Here's the sentence: "The fire burned brightly, and the soft radiance of the incandescent lights in the lilies of silver caught the bubbles that flashed and passed in our glasses.". BTW, by glasses he means vessels not spectacles, right?

Posted By jazzman at Wed 11 Apr 2007, 4:01 AM in The Time Machine || 1 Reply

H.G wells The Time Machine

The book the Time Machine was a very interesting book, at first it seemed confusing to me with all this arguing about a 4 dimensional geometry between the Time Traveller & his Collegues. When the Time Traveller goes into the future he sees that instead of the future being more advanced it became more simple, for the inhabitans looked nothing close to humans who were called the Eloi. On his journey into time he met Weena who was an Eloi, the Morlocks were seen as monsters because they eat the Eloi. Even thought this book is obviously fictional it tells us that the future can become anything. How do we know it may advance? For all we know the future could become more simpler. The book leaves you wondering " How will the future be like?"

Posted By artuballer at Tue 19 Dec 2006, 6:10 PM in The Time Machine || 1 Reply

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