The Time Machine. H G Wells

[Charles Pegge]

H G Wells is one of the founding fathers of the science fiction genre. His stories have a strong allegorical theme and reflect the social and scientific issues of the time. This is a great story.

Thanks for reminding us Dan!


Text 1898

http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/35/pg35.html


Classic Film 1960

This departs quite a long way from H G Well's original story. Even though it incorporates the 2 world wars and a nuclear war, it is less dark. I think it's an improvement and in no way detracts from the original theme.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcziOmxNuus
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0nJhpCmznU&NR=1
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmFxri4KQnU&feature=related
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ydfw7DOtQxY&NR=1
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRKHU_UrU5o&NR=1
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv7J9LtT95w&NR=1
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytuydG-ryYg&NR=1
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RXXojCJjM0&NR=1
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSVCOU1cw4k&NR=1
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe674ai3wsQ&NR=1
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUHI6NjdpFk&NR=1



Charles

[kryton9]

That was a great movie, saw it many many times. There was also a pretty decent remake a few years ago, that really didn't get much attention, but I enjoyed it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268695/

a trailer for it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQbmX-TY3t8

[Charles Pegge]

Hi Kent,

I found one piece from the 2002 movie:

clip: travelling through time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JDJs-Aa9ho


The 1978 take is interesting too. There is a complete set of 10 youtubes for this. The story as you will see has been shifted from 1899 to 198?. Gone are the ebony and brass levers & the time machine is now under microcomputer control with VDU and contemporary Qwerty keyboard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljeAWqfQjsg&NR=1

[kryton9]

That 1978 version I don't recall Charles, good find... thanks.

[danbaron]

[font=courier new][size=8pt]You can view The Time Machine, online, at Charles' address, above.

If you want to download it in PDF form, then you can go to this address. There are also some of his other books there.

http://www.feedbooks.com/book/32

You (the British) had H.G.Wells (among many others).
We had E.A.Poe, and then later, H.P.Lovecraft.
Lovecraft died in 1937.
He was born and died, in, Providence, Rhode Island.

Here is a good one by Lovecraft.
(I read all of his stories at the university. They seemed good to me then. Hopefully, they still would now.)
It is called, "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward".
It is in PDF form, 538 K.
If you want to download it, then just go to this address, and click on, "The Case of Charles ..>".

Dan

http://files.vsociety.net/data/library/Section%205%20%28C,%20I,%20O,%20U%29/Lovecraft,%20H.%20P_/Unknown%20Album/

[Petr Schreiber]

Hi Dan,

I read stories from H.P. Lovecraft too, some time ago. Some are really scary, although it seemed to me he tended to repeat the key points of the story sometimes.

His books revealed for me very useful word: "miasmatic" :)


Petr

[danbaron]

[font=courier new][size=8pt]Petr, I commonly use the word when referring to the odor that emanates from a newly occupied crypt, or tomb. Also, to describe a psychic atmosphere which I find oppressive or foreboding, as I imagine I would experience, if, for instance, I were to step across the threshold, into, - The House of Usher.

Dan

[Petr Schreiber]

Good!

The word "macabre" is also very nice,
commonly used with some experiments from university refectory.

Charles, I will print out the text version of Time Machine. The language used seems to look quite recent so far, is it adapted to modern English?


Petr

[Charles Pegge]

Hi Petr,

No this is the original text.

H G Wells produced very readable material. Much easier to read than earlier authors like Charles Dickens who used long over-complicated sentences. I am sure he would be a successful 21st Century author with minimal adaptation to our linguistic and cultural norms.

Charles

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Wells