The Time Machine / Stage 6

by H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells has immortalised the Time Traveller in his The Time Machine - by making it possible for man to move right and left, backward and forward and up and down, denying the truth of the scientific discoveries.

The Time Traveller amazes his colleagues and the readers by his accounts of his adventures in strange times other than his own. He had perfected a machine that lets him live everyone's dream - to be able to move back to the past or forward into the future, at will.

How does he return? What proofs does he have? Where does he land? The adventure is endless.

The Time Machine has become immortal for the concept of time as the fourth dimension-which truly appeals to all of us.

80 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2019

About the author

Herbert George Wells was born to a working class family in Kent, England. Young Wells received a spotty education, interrupted by several illnesses and family difficulties, and became a draper's apprentice as a teenager. The headmaster of Midhurst Grammar School, where he had spent a year, arranged for him to return as an "usher," or student teacher. Wells earned a government scholarship in 1884, to study biology under Thomas Henry Huxley at the Normal School of Science. Wells earned his bachelor of science and doctor of science degrees at the University of London. After marrying his cousin, Isabel, Wells began to supplement his teaching salary with short stories and freelance articles, then books, including The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898).

Wells created a mild scandal when he divorced his cousin to marry one of his best students, Amy Catherine Robbins. Although his second marriage was lasting and produced two sons, Wells was an unabashed advocate of free (as opposed to "indiscriminate") love. He continued to openly have extra-marital liaisons, most famously with Margaret Sanger, and a ten-year relationship with the author Rebecca West, who had one of his two out-of-wedlock children. A one-time member of the Fabian Society, Wells sought active change. His 100 books included many novels, as well as nonfiction, such as A Modern Utopia (1905), The Outline of History (1920), A Short History of the World (1922), The Shape of Things to Come (1933), and The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind (1932). One of his booklets was Crux Ansata, An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church. Although Wells toyed briefly with the idea of a "divine will" in his book, God the Invisible King (1917), it was a temporary aberration. Wells used his international fame to promote his favorite causes, including the prevention of war, and was received by government officials around the world. He is best-remembered as an early writer of science fiction and futurism.

He was also an outspoken socialist. Wells and Jules Verne are each sometimes referred to as "The Fathers of Science Fiction". D. 1946.

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Reviews

[Maxemilian Drest · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked the story, which felt more like my grandfather's adventures than a futuristic one.

The story was very different and gave me the feeling of time travel back immediately. The protagonist uses matches and camphor to find light. I'd never heard of camphor before. The journey was relatively imaginative.