At a Victorian dinner party in Richmond, London, the Time Traveler returns to tell his extraordinary tale of mankind's future in the year 802,701 AD. It is a dystopian vision of Darwinian evolution, with humans split into an above-ground species of Eloi, and their troglodyte brothers. <p/>The first book H. G. Wells published, <em>The Time Machine</em> is a scientific romance that helped invent the genre of science fiction and the time travel story. Even before its serialization had finished in the spring of 1895, Wells had been declared a man of genius, and the book heralded a fifty year career of a major cultural and political controversialist. It is a sardonic rejection of Victorian ideals of progress and improvement and a detailed satirical commentary on the Decadent culture of the 1890's. <p/>This edition features a contextual introduction, detailed explanatory notes, and two essays Wells wrote just prior to the publication of his first book.<br><br><br><b>Author:</b> H. G. Wells<br><b>Publisher:</b> Oxford University Press, USA<br><b>Published:</b> 01/12/2017<br><b>Pages:</b> 144<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.27lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.50d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780198707516<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><br><strong>Roger Luckhurst</strong> has written widely on Victorian popular fiction, science fiction and Gothic literature. He has edited Stevenson's <em>Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde</em>, Stoker's <em>Dracula</em>, and an ant