Herbert George Wells

The Time Machine (Annotated) Herbert George Wells

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-From time to time, I like to get away from editorial news and (re) read some science fiction, fantasy or horror classic. I always get surprises. As with The Time Machine, perhaps the best novel by H. G. Wells Time travel has always fascinated Man. It was at the end of the 19th century that the possibility of moving physically through time, as through space, became a matter of literary speculation. But Wells's work was not the first work of this genre. 14 years before, in 1881, Edward Page Mitchell had already talked about this possibility in his story "The clock that goes back" and, shortly after, in 1887, the Spaniard Enrique Gaspar and Riambau invented the first machine that allowed the transtemporal journey in the story "The anachronist." However, it is undeniable that Wells's story has become the most popular and influential of all. The work begins at the end, in a kind of original flashforward. Or would it be flashback? The protagonist, the Time Traveler (as he is called throughout the novel), has just finished his trip to the future and is about to explain it to a skeptical audience but emboldened by the intellectual challenge that announces them