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The Time Machine
Contributor(s): Wells, H. G. (Author)

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ISBN: 1545359059 ISBN-13: 9781545359051
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

OUR PRICE: $7.23

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2017

Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Science Fiction - Action & Adventure
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Science Fiction - Time Travel

Dewey: 823.912

Age Level: 9-12

Grade Level: 4-7

Physical Information: 0.24" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.36 lbs) 114 pages

Themes:
- Topical - Home Schooling

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Publisher Description:
The Time Machine is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 and written as a frame narrative. Wells is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposely and selectively forwards or backwards in time. The term "time machine", coined by Wells, is now almost universally used to refer to such a vehicle.Wells had considered the notion of time travel before, in a short story titled "The Chronic Argonauts" (1888). This work, published in his college newspaper, was the foundation for The Time Machine.Wells frequently stated that he had thought of using some of this material in a series of articles in the Pall Mall Gazette until the publisher asked him if he could instead write a serial novel on the same theme. Wells readily agreed and was paid 100 (equal to about 10,000 today) on its publication by Heinemann in 1895, which first published the story in serial form in the January to May numbers of The New Review (newly under the nominal editorship of W. E. Henley). Henry Holt and Company published the first book edition (possibly prepared from a different manuscript) on 7 May 1895; Heinemann published an English edition on 29 May. These two editions are different textually and are commonly referred to as the "Holt text" and "Heinemann text", respectively. Nearly all modern reprints reproduce the Heinemann text.

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