The Time Machine and The Invisible Man

by H. G. Wells

Overview

Together in one volume, The Time Machine and The Invisible Man are masterpieces of irony and imaginative vision. The Time Machine conveys the Time Traveller into the far distant future and an extraordinary world. There, stranded on a slowly dying earth, he discovers two bizarre races, the effet Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks - a haunting portrayal of Darwin's evolutionary theory carried to a terrible conclusion. The Invisible Man is the fascinating tale of a brash young scientist who, experimenting with himself, becomes invisible and then criminally insane, trapped in the terror of his own creation. H.G. Wells wrote: "My fantastic stories...do not pretend to deal with impossible things. They aim indeed only at the same amount of conviction as one gets in a good gripping dream." But as generations of readers have found, H.G. Well's gripping dreams are cosummate science fiction - convincing and unforgettably real.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781420936483
Publisher:	Digireads.com Publishing
Publication date:	01/01/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Herbert George "H.G." Wells (1866–1946) was a prolific English writer best known for his timeless science fiction novels, including The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, and The War of the Worlds. After winning a scholarship to the prestigious Normal School of Science in London, where he studied biology and helped found The Science School Journal, he became a teacher and embarked on an impressive literary career that resulted in four Nobel Prize nominations. Wells also wrote extensively on politics and social matters and was one of the foremost public intellectuals of his day.

Allen Grove is a Professor and Chair of the English Department at Alfred University. He holds a PhD in English from the University of Pennsylvania and his research and teaching focus primarily on eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and early twentieth-century British fiction.

Date of Birth:

September 21, 1866

Date of Death:

August 13, 1946

Place of Birth:

Bromley, Kent, England

Place of Death:

London, England

Education:

Normal School of Science, London, England