The Time MachineTor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title—offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords. |
From inside the book
... idea of ' time travelling , ' " that he had originally written and published in the Sci- ence Schools Journal while he was a student at the Normal School of Science . Wells later called the earlier version " an experi- ment in the ...
... ideas and broad general knowledge was off to a good start . The short stories that he had already written ( or would soon write ) and the five more science - fiction novels that he would write by 1901 so influenced later writers that he ...
... idea of a dy- namic rather than a static universe . It viewed existence not as fixed or degenerating from earlier states of bliss and innocence but as evolving , changing , even progressing . Under these circumstances , writers and many ...
... carefully . I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost univer- sally accepted . The geometry , for instance , they taught you at school is founded on a misconception . " Is not that rather a large thing to expect 1 1 ...
... idea . You have all heard what they have to say about this Fourth Dimension ? " " I have not , " said the Provincial Mayor . " It is simply this . That Space , as our mathemati- cians have it , is spoken of as having three dimen- sions ...
Contents
Section 1 | 65 |
Section 2 | 73 |
Section 3 | 82 |
Section 4 | 91 |
Section 5 | 100 |
Section 6 | 104 |
Section 7 | 112 |
Section 8 | 119 |
Section 9 | 121 |