{"product_id":"the-time-machine-h-g-wells-9780393927948","title":"The Time Machine: A Norton Critical Edition","description":"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 \u003cem\u003eThe Time Machine\u003c\/em\u003e. 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\"Backgrounds and Contexts\" is organized thematically into four sections: \"The Evolution of \u003cem\u003eThe Time Machine\u003c\/em\u003e\" 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Time Machine\u003c\/em\u003e\" reprints the prefaces to the 1924, 1931, and 1934 editions; and \"Scientific and Social Contexts\" collects five widely read texts by the Victorian scientists and social critics Edwin Ray Lankester, Thomas Henry Huxley, Benjamin Kidd, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), and Balfour Stewart and Peter Guthrie Tait.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Criticism\" includes three important early reviews of \u003cem\u003eThe Time Machine\u003c\/em\u003e from the \u003cem\u003eSpectator\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eDaily Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePall Mall Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e as well as eight critical essays that reflect our changing emphases in reading and appreciating this futuristic novel. Contributors include Yevgeny Zamyatin, Bernard Bergonzi, Kathryn Hume, Elaine Showalter, John Huntington, Paul A. Cantor and Peter Hufnagel, Colin Manlove, and Roger Luckhurst.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e H. G. Wells\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0393927946\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393927948\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.10w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.4\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 6\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e12799 \/ Time Machine (Unabridged)\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"H. G. Wells","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43992978129151,"sku":"9780393927948","price":19.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b42c871e-3acb-4d79-8266-a4e1c68c1886.jpg?v=1683321854","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-time-machine-h-g-wells-9780393927948","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}