{"product_id":"the-time-machine-the-invisible-man-2","title":"The Time Machine\/The Invisible Man","description":"Together in one indispensable volume, \u003ci\u003eThe Time Machine \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Man \u003c\/i\u003eare masterpieces of irony and imaginative vision from H. G. Wells, the father of science fiction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Time Machine\u003c\/i\u003e conveys the Time Traveller into the distant future and an extraordinary world. There, stranded on a slowly dying Earth, he discovers two bizarre races: the effete Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks--a haunting portrayal of Darwin's evolutionary theory carried to a terrible conclusion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Man \u003c\/i\u003eis the fascinating tale of a brash young scientist who, experimenting on himself, becomes invisible and then criminally insane, trapped in the terror of his own creation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eConvincing and unforgettably real, these two classics are consummate representations of the stories that defined science fiction--and inspired generations of readers and writers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith an Introduction by John Calvin Batchelor\u003cbr\u003eand an Afterword by Paul Youngquist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHerbert George Wells \u003c\/b\u003e(1866-1946) was born in Bromley, Kent, England. His father was a professional cricketer and sometime shopkeeper, his mother a former lady's maid. Although \"Bertie\" left school at fourteen to become a draper's apprentice (a life he detested), he later won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in London, where he studied with the famous Thomas Henry Huxley. He began to sell articles and short stories regularly in 1893. In 1895, his immediately successful novel \u003ci\u003eThe Time Machine\u003c\/i\u003e rescued him from a life of penury on a schoolteacher's salary. His other \"scientific romances\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Island of Dr. Moreau\u003c\/i\u003e (1896), \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Man \u003c\/i\u003e(1897), \u003ci\u003eThe War of the Worlds \u003c\/i\u003e(1898), \u003ci\u003eThe First Men in the Moon \u003c\/i\u003e(1901), and \u003ci\u003eThe War in the Air \u003c\/i\u003e(1908)--won him distinction as the father of science fiction. Henry James saw in Wells the most gifted writer of the age, but Wells, having coined the phrase \"the war that will end war\" to describe World War I, became increasingly disillusioned and focused his attention on educating mankind with his bestselling \u003ci\u003eOutline of History\u003c\/i\u003e (1920) and his later utopian works. Wells witnessed a world more terrible than any of his imaginative visions, and he bitterly observed: \"Reality has taken a leaf from my book and set itself to supercede me.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Calvin Batchelor \u003c\/b\u003eis the acclaimed author of such imaginative novels as \u003ci\u003eThe American Falls\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePeople's Republic of Antarctica\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGordon Liddy Is My Muse.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Youngquist \u003c\/b\u003eis professor of English and associate chair of Graduate Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. He's the author of three books: \u003ci\u003eRace, Romanticism, and The Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eMadness and Blake's Myth\u003c\/i\u003e (1991); and \u003ci\u003eMonstrosities: Bodies and British Romanticism \u003c\/i\u003e(2003), as well as numerous articles on a variety of subjects.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Signet Book","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50625530954002,"sku":"9780451530707","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_76045063-d38b-4316-8a6e-7c20792d49b4.jpg?v=1732631409","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-time-machine-the-invisible-man-2","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}