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The Time Machine: An Invention: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism

H. G. Wells

First published 2009
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Format Trade Paperback
Type Collection
Pages x+268
Price $11.25
ISBN 9780393927948

Amazon provides no "Look inside" this edition (2020-04-28 as published 2008-09-16, list price $18.25). Edited by Stephen Arata Annotations by Stephen Arata (reported)

Sections and subsections spanning pp. 1-259 (from the pre-publication list of Contents, linked above, and the publisher description at Amazon): 1 — The Text of the Time Machine   ('accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations and "A Note on the Text" ') 73 — Backgrounds and Contexts • 75 - The Evolution of The Time Machine • 132 - Wells's Scientific Journalism • 150 - Wells on The Time Machine • 157 - Scientific and Social Contexts 177 — Criticism • 179 - Early Reviews • 188 - Recent Criticism See also WorldCat (OCLC, below).

Titles should be checked against the book.

Page Title Author(s) Type
The Rediscovery of the Unique (excerpt) H. G. Wells Essay
1 The Time Machine: An Invention: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism H. G. Wells Novella
75 The Chronic Argonauts H. G. Wells Novelette
94 Revising the Chronic Argonauts Geoffrey West Essay
95 The Time Machine (National Observer serial version) H. G. Wells Short Fiction
118 Alternate Ending: The Last Voyage of the Time Machine H. G. Wells Short Fiction
120 New Review Time Machine (excerpts) H. G. Wells Short Fiction
127 Cancelled Episode: The Return of the Time Traveller H. G. Wells Short Fiction
133 Zoological Retrogression H. G. Wells Essay
136 On Extinction H. G. Wells Essay
138 The Man of the Year Million: A Scientific Forecast H. G. Wells Essay
143 The Extinction of Man: Some Speculative Suggestions H. G. Wells Essay
147 The "Cyclic Delusion" (excerpt) H. G. Wells Essay
150 Preface to the Atlantic Edition of The Time Machine (excerpt) H. G. Wells Essay
151 Preface (The Time Machine) H. G. Wells Essay
154 Preface to Seven Famous Novels (excerpt) H. G. Wells Essay
157 A Chapter in Darwinism (excerpt from Degeneration) Edwin Ray Lankester Essay
163 A Programme (excerpt from The Struggle for Existence) Thomas Henry Huxley Essay
169 Social Evolution (excerpt) Benjamin Kidd Essay
173 On the Age of the Sun's Heat (excerpt) William Thomson Essay
174 The Unseen Universe (excerpt) Balfour Stewart & Peter Guthrie Tait Essay
179 The Time Machine Richard Holt Hutton & H. G. Wells Review
182 The Time Machine uncredited & H. G. Wells Review
184 The Time Machine H. G. Wells & Israel Zangwill Review
188 Wells's Urban Fairy Tales Yevgeny Zamyatin Essay
190 Wells the Myth-Maker Bernard Bergonzi Essay
202 Eat or Be Eaten: H. G. Wells Time Machine Kathryn Hume Essay
213 The Apocalyptic Fables of H. G. Wells Elaine Showalter Essay
222 The Time Machine and Wells's Social Trajectory John Huntington Essay
229 The Empire of the Future: Imperialism and Modernism in H. G. Wells Paul A. Cantor & Peter Hugnagel Essay
243 H. G. Wells and the Machine in Victorian Literature Colin Manlove Essay
252 The Scientific Romance and the Evolutionary Paradigm Roger Luckhurst Essay
260 H. G. Wells: A Chronology uncredited Essay
266 Selected Bibliography (The Time Machine) uncredited Essay
ix A Note on the Text Stephen Arata Essay
vii Preface (The Time Machine) Stephen Arata Essay