The Time Machine Review
The Time Machine by HG Wells (268 pages) My Rating: 4 Stars Date Finished: 16 May 2015 Synopsis: Intrigued by the possibilities of time travel as a student and inspired as a journalist by the great scientific advances of the Victorian Age, Wells drew on his own scientific publications on evolution, degeneration, species extinction, geologic time, and biology in writing The Time Machine. This Norton Critical Edition is based on the first London edition of the novel. It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations and A Note on the Text. Backgrounds and Contexts is organized thematically into four sections: The Evolution of The Time Machine presents alternative versions and installments and excerpts of the author s time-travel story; Wells s Scientific Journalism (1891 94) focuses on the scientific topics central to the novel; Wells on The Time Machine reprints the prefaces to the 1924, 1931, and 1934 editions; and Scientific and Social Contexts collects five widely read ...