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The Time Machine
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The Time Machine  

H. G. Wells  and Roger Luckhurst

Abstract

The Time Traveller* (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. His grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his usually pale face was flushed and animated. The fire burnt brightly, and the soft radiance of the incandescent lights in the lilies of silver caught the bubbles that flashed and passed in our glasses. Our chairs, being his patents, embraced and caressed us rather than submitted to be sat upon, and there was that luxurious after-dinner atmosphere, when thought runs gracefully free of the trammels of precision. And he put it to us in this way—marking the points with a lean forefinger—as we sat and lazily admired his earnestness over this new paradox (as we thought it) and his fecundity.

Bibliographic Information

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN:
9780198707516
DOI:
10.1093/owc/9780198707516.001.0001

Authors

H. G. Wells, author

Roger Luckhurst, editor


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Contents

  • Front Matter
    • Introduction
    • Note on the Text
    • Select Bibliography
    • Chronology
    • Dedication
  • I Introduction
  • II The Machine
  • III The Time Traveller Returns
  • IV Time Travelling
  • V In The Golden Age
  • VI The Sunset of Mankind
  • VII A Sudden Shock
  • VIII Explanation
  • IX The Morlocks
  • X When The Night Came
  • XI The Palace of Green Porcelain
  • XII In The Darkness
  • XIII The Trap of the White Sphinx
  • XIV The Further Vision
  • XV The Time Traveller’s Return
  • XVI After The Story
  • End Matter
    • Epilogue
    • Appendix I The New Review ‘The Further Vision’
    • Appendix II H. G. Wells, ‘Zoological Retrogression’ (1891)
    • Appendix III H. G. Wells, ‘On Extinction’ (1893)
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date: 28 March 2023

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