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H.G. Wells'
The Time Machine
3 standard audio CD's
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one MP3 CD
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an MP3 download.
(3 hrs 35 minutes)
For more than a hundred years, science fiction writers around the world have captured our imaginations with speculations about journeys into the past or future. Countless novels, short stories, movies and TV shows have used or adapted the theme of time travel. Some of the most popular of recent decades include the Back to the Future trilogy of movies (1985-1990), The Terminator series of movies and the TV programs Dr Who and Futurama to name just a few. However, all of them owe a debt to Herbert George Wells. This, his first major novel, published in 1895, was the origin of the very concept of time travel. It is considered by many to be one of the greatest science fiction novels of all time. In this story, the Time Traveller spins forward from late 19th century London to the year 802,701 where two rival species of human descendants co-exist in tension. The Eloi live in an apparent paradise, although constantly fearful of their noctural subterranean predators, the Morlocks. This classic novel has itself been the subject of two major movies: the first, in 1960, starred Rod Taylor as the Time Traveller. More recently, in 2002, starring Guy Pearce and Jeremy Irons. |
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The Time Traveller begins his journey - CLICK TO LISTEN |
1 mins 55 secs (1.11 Mb) |
Escaping the clutches of the Morlocks - CLICK TO LISTEN |
2 mins 07 secs (1.22 Mb) |
The Time Traveller's guests are unconvinced - CLICK TO LISTEN |
2 mins 02 secs (1.18 Mb) |
Yes, there are other audio books of The Time Machine available, but they are either much more expensive, or else they are versions relying on computer-generated speech, with none of the drama and emotion. This audio book edition of The Time Machine gives you the opportunity to obtain, for your personal collection, an outstanding quality narration of one of the world’s greatest stories, at a fraction of the cost charged by major recording studios. The
standard audio 3 CD set, or the single-CD MP3 recording will be securely packed and
shipped in a presentation case (see pictures above) along with a contents folder, all
featuring original artwork by Angelo Crespo - www.cg-quest.com |
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About the author |
About the co-narrator |
| H.G. (Herbert George) Wells was a British writer, best known for his science fiction novels | The Time Machine is the first of my audio books to feature a co-narrator. Most of the story (Chapters 3 to 11) is narrated in the first person by The Time Traveller, played by myself, Shane Sody. However there is another character, the Narrator, who sets the scene in Chapters 1 and 2, and returns to conclude the narrative in Chapter 12 and the Epilogue. The Narrator is played by Victor Sody, a student who enjoys dramatic performance, basketball, music and computer games.
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| Wells was born on 21 September 1866 at Bromley. He was the fourth and last son born to working class parents. When he was eight years old, he was bedridden with a broken leg. To pass the time, he started reading and soon became devoted to the other worlds and lives to which books gave him access; it also stimulated his desire to write. As a young man he had unhappy apprenticeships in various trades including draper and teacher. In 1883, he won a scholarship to what was then known as the Normal School of Science but he failed to pass all his subjects and lost his scholarship. He turned to writing from 1888. His early novels, called "scientific romances", were written during the 1890's. They invented a number of themes now classic in science fiction in such works as The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds (which have all been made into films). Wells died on 13 August 1946 |
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