{"product_id":"the-time-machine-9780198707516","title":"The Time Machine","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first book H. G. Wells published, \u003cem\u003eThe Time Machine\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis edition features a contextual introduction, detailed explanatory notes, and two essays Wells wrote just prior to the publication of his first book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoger Luckhurst\u003c\/strong\u003e has written widely on Victorian popular fiction, science fiction and Gothic literature. He has edited Stevenson's \u003cem\u003eStrange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\u003c\/em\u003e, Stoker's \u003cem\u003eDracula\u003c\/em\u003e, and an anthology of \u003cem\u003eLate Victorian Gothic Tales\u003c\/em\u003e for Oxford World's Classics, and an edition of H. P. Lovecraft's \u003cem\u003eClassic Horror Stories\u003c\/em\u003e. His books include \u003cem\u003eThe Mummy's Curse: The True History of a Dark Fantasy\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford, 2012).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50612227965202,"sku":"9780198707516","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9597ac43-6f49-4699-ae99-8e3fb2024968.jpg?v=1768914163","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-time-machine-9780198707516","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}