In Victorian era England, a man known simply as the Time Traveller, journeys 800,000 years into the future where he encounters a society composed of the decadent surface dwellers and the savage under-worlders who live in ways determined by evolution and fights to return home safely.
Genre-defining in terms of science fiction, it's a quick read but worth it for the eerie possibility... read more
Una possibile finestra sul futuro dell'umanità narrata magistralmente in questo classico della fantascienza, che riesce ad avvincere, a far riflettere, che sa filosofeggiare sulla condizione umana e sulle ipotetiche ripercussioni della sua condotta di vita... Eloi e Morlock possono essere sì visti come una ribellione estrema contro l'eccessivo dislivello delle classi sociali, ma anche come un pu... read more
Description:When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year a.d. 802,701, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment, and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realizes that these beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture?now wWhen a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year a.d. 802,701, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment, and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realizes that these beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture?now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. They have every reason to be afraid: in deep tunnels beneath their paradise lurks another race descended from humanity?the sinister Morlocks. And when the scientist?s time machine vanishes, it becomes clear he must search these tunnels if he is ever to return to his own era.
-Includes a newly established text, a full biographical essay on Wells, a list of further reading, and detailed notes -Marina Warner?s introduction considers Wells?s development of the ?scientific romance? and places the novel in the context of its time
"When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year a.d. 802,701, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment, and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realizes that these beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture?now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. They have every reason to be afraid: in deep tunnels beneath their paradise lurks another race descended from humanity?the si"
“Una possibile finestra sul futuro dell'umanità narrata magistralmente in questo classico della fantascienza, che riesce ad avvincere, a far riflettere, che sa filosofeggiare sulla condizione umana e sulle ipotetiche ripercussioni della sua condotta di vita... Eloi e Morlock possono essere sì visti come una ribellione estrema contro l'eccessivo dislivello delle classi sociali, ma anche come un puro e semplice stato evolutivo in sé e per sé totalmente estraneo a congetture politiche e sociali... La paura e le difficoltà aguzzano l'ingegno e la forza, mentre l'agiatezza conduce inevitabilmente verso la pigrizia mentale e fisica... ossia, verso il declino. Questo Wells ce lo rammenta nel suo racconto, ma noi dovremmo tenerlo sempre a mente. Bellissimo anche lo squarcio finale su un futuro” read more
"Another genre-shaping novel, Wells' Time Machine was one of the first stories to link time travel with science rather than magic or spiritualism. Plus his depiction of the underground-dwelling, industrial Morlocks and the willowy, surface-dwelling hippie Eloi shaped the way many people imagined the future for the next several decades."
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“In Victorian era England, a man known simply as the Time Traveller, journeys 800,000 years into the future where he encounters a society composed of the decadent surface dwellers and the savage under-worlders who live in ways determined by evolution and fights to return home safely.
Genre-defining in terms of science fiction, it's a quick read but worth it for the eerie possibility of his vision.
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