Vintage Classics Replica Hardcover: A Timeless Collection of Illustrations

...@im'B...@im'B: Rupa Publication ,the next best publication after Penguin Classic , I'm talking for the case of the book only - The Time Machine . The book contains 113 pages in all. The book contains only text , no critical appreciation is there . And the price is too much if you're planning to buy without prime membership in Amazon. The original price was ₹95 but I've to pay ₹ 157 it's disgusting . So if you're planning to buy , go for offline bookshops it'll save your money . And book is overall good with it's all features .

India on Sep 23, 2023

D. Ansell: WORTH READING - LEARNED A LOT

United Kingdom on Sep 20, 2023

たけまる: It has an unfading fascination. It's an immortal classic.

Japan on Sep 18, 2023

Amazon Customer: Very imaginative, quite ahead of its time. It is almost like an imaginative experiment to discern a little bit of what will happen with mankin and the planet.

United States on Jul 28, 2023

Lilimip: A talented writer, a social critique disguised as an ingenious science fiction tale, an easy-to-read narrative for English language learners. In this short story published in 1895, H G Wells exposes his literary genius in building a plot that involves two main characters: a Machine that defies the fourth dimension and its creator, the Time Traveler. The author imagines a futuristic text with profound social content, giving it an original touch that is different from most science fiction stories I have read. With minimal technology or without aerospace bases, the protagonist travels through Time in his contraption to the first future stop, the distant year 802,701 aD. At this time, the descendants of Homo Sapiens share two distinct classes: the Eloi and the Morlocks. The Eloi are childlike creatures, vegetarians, who live for love and fun. They evolved from those who got used to comfort and well-being. But not everything is perfect. Originating from the working class, the Molocks live deep beneath the earth. They hunt, care for, and feed on the Eloi. Darwin’s theory about the fittest survival didn’t mean the development of an intellectual civilization.
In a further future,...

Brazil on Apr 04, 2023

Goth Gone Grey: Wild science fiction? Biting social commentary? Theories on evolution and climate change? Or all of the above?

I read this years ago, a child's version, and found it much the same as I remembered, though reading with fresh eyes. Originally I focused on the time travel alone, and the surprises inherent in the Time Traveler's tale. Knowing the plot now let me focus more on the style, subtleties, and more.

It's an interesting story, narrated by both the Traveler and a guest at his home. By today's standards of explosions, nudity, and profanity, it's tame and slow moving. As a classic tale and social commentary, it holds up well over time though the guests seem interchangeable.

The writing is old fashioned yet lovely, leading me to use the Kindle dictionary feature more than usual for unknown words. An example of the writing:

"The twinkling succession of darkness and light was excessively painful to the eye. Then, in the intermittent darknesses, I saw the moon spinning swiftly through her quarters from new to full, and had a faint glimpse of the circling stars. Presently, as I went on, still gaining velocity, the palpitation of night and day merged into one...

United States on Nov 25, 2020

David Mundis: Daniel Mundis - Book Project # 2
The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells, is a thrilling science fiction novel revolving around the story of a man only known as the "Time Traveler.” Throughout the story the narrator does not reveal his name, nor do any of the other characters in the book. Neither does he reveal the name of the time traveler and many other guests that appear in the background. Everyone has a certain title for which they are known for. The story starts off with the “Time Traveler” inviting a couple intelligent people to a small gathering or party. He shows them a mock of what he believes to be a time machine. No larger than a cubic foot it was described as. He explained how everything was to work. How the universe was is a four dimensional realm with time being the fourth dimension and a plane that could be traveled across. After a short demonstration of how the miniature model worked, he stunned the audience leaving them with nothing but questions. After a short dinner and questions asked by the group, he invited them all back in a couple of weeks to another dinner.
Most of the previous group returned along with a few new people. The dinner started without the...

United States on Mar 28, 2016

Nicholas Casley: This is a review of the Penguin edition of 2005 of the novella that HG Wells wrote in 1895 when he was twenty-nine years old. This reviewer came to the work only after being imbued with the 1960 film of the same name, which he remembers watching on many an occasion as a child going up in the 1970s. It was thus interesting to see where the film stayed loyal to the text and where it profoundly differed, for whereas the narrative of the two are - by and large - the same, Wells had a different reason for telling its tale beyond the mere desire to tell a delightful story.

The Penguin edition comes with a concise six-page biography of the author (by Patrick Parrinder); a fourteen-page introduction (as usual, best read AFTER the novella) by Marina Warner; a note on the text; and endnotes to assist the reader. Warner notes Wells's "inspired move as a storyteller was to distance himself completely from the occult and the uncanny so prevalent in the fin de siècle when he started ... He is not looking to give his readers the thrill of the paranormal or to make us shiver at the mysteries of the unknown; he rather presents marvels as knowable, introduces us to wonders of nature and the...

United Kingdom on Feb 01, 2013

Israel Drazin: H. G. Wells (1866-1946) published this science fiction tale in 1898. It draws on his sensible conviction that humanity and civilization will decline if people continue on their present suicidal course of seeking a life of leisure. "An animal," he writes, "perfectly in harmony with its environment is (nothing more than) a perfect mechanism." Intelligence and progress requires struggle and change. The gripping story can be seen as a parable.

A man develops a time machine that can transport him to the future, enters it, and flies forward some 800,000 years. He finds men and women who are no taller than four feet, very frail and soft, handsome, men and women look alike, but they are child-like and naïve, and they laugh a lot. They show little curiosity and are not intelligent. They treat him kindly as children would, and think he descended to them from the sun in a thunderstorm. They are vegetarians. Their buildings are dilapidated. They live a life of communism. They do not work or otherwise exert themselves. He finds, in short, a civilization in decline. They are called Eloi, and the reader wonders if this name is a mockery, an irony, for the well-known Semitic term El means...

United States on Jan 13, 2011