The Time Machine -

H. G. Wells

Penguin Classics

2005

144 páginas

4h 48m

ISBN-10: 0141439971

Wells’s genre-defining novel of time travel

When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year a.d. 802,701, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment, and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realizes that these beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture—now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. They have every reason to be afraid: in deep tunnels beneath their paradise lurks another race descended from humanity—the sinister Morlocks. And when the scientist’s time machine vanishes, it becomes clear he must search these tunnels if he is ever to return to his own era.

This edition includes a newly established text, a full biographical essay on Wells, a list of further reading, and detailed notes. Marina Warner’s introduction considers Wells’s development of the “scientific romance” and places the novel in the context of its time.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Resenhas (21)

4 (Muito bom)

O que veio primeiro: Viagem ao Centro da Terra ou a Teoria da Terra Oca? Tendo infelizmente já lido o último, posso dizer que a obra de Verne é mais interessante.

Verne mescla o olhar acadêmico do professor Lidenbrock com o encantamento do jovem Axele o resultado é que lugares como os rios subterrâneos, animais supostamente extintos e novas civilizações são descritos numa mistura de achado científico e maravilhada inocência.

É muito divertido e supera de longe as adaptações já feitas pelo cinema.

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