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The time machine -- The war of the worlds -- The context of the novels. From a review of The time machine in the Spectator, 13 July 1895 / R.H. Hutton -- From a review of The time machine in the Daily ...
THE AUTOCRACY OF MR. PARKHAM— H. G. Wells—Doubleday, Doran ($1). Author Herbert George Wells, onetime first-class novelist and short-story writer, is now propagandist perennial. Lately his ...
In 2002, H.G. Wells’ classic 1895 novella, The Time Machine, was given a glossy modern makeover as a Hollywood feature directed by the legendary author’s great-grandson, British filmmaker Simon Wells.
STAR-BEGOTTEN—H. G. Wells—Viking ($1.75). Every man, it is said, has one good book in him. But many a professional writer distributes his first-rate potentialities over a series of second-rate books.
Introduction: The text ; The Sphinx-question ; The two socialisms ; Eloi and Morlocks ; The two cultures -- "The time machine, an invention" (1895) (annotated text of the first London edition) -- ...