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书名：The Time Machine /The Invisible Man 时间机器/隐形人
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1070
作者：H. G. Wells
出版社名称：Signet Classics
出版时间：2007
语种：英文
ISBN：9780451530707
商品尺寸：10.5 x2.3x 17.1 cm
包装：简装
页数：296 （以实物为准）
The Time Machine / The Invisible Man《时间机器/隐形人》是H. G. Wells赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯两部代表作《时间机器》和《隐形人》的合集。作品运用错综复杂的情节和奇幻的手法，向我们展现科学的奇妙之处。适合英语专业学生及对科幻类英语文学作品感兴趣的读者。
推荐理由：
1.赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯，英国著名小说家，所创作的科幻小说对该领域影响深远，如“时间旅行”“外星人入侵”“反乌托邦”等都是20世纪科幻小说中的主流话题；
2.《时间机器》是赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的成名作及代表作，同时《隐形人》也被视为是描写疯狂科学家与社会对立的杰作；
3.作者运用了一般人所未深知的科学事实、科学学说、科学臆测为写作基础，然后进行合理的想象推理，构思了一个个充满浪漫色彩的故事；
4.此版本为Signet Classic版本，由保罗·扬奎斯特（Paul Youngquist）撰写序言，及约翰·卡尔文·巴彻勒（John Calvin Batchelor）撰写编后记；
5.英文原版无删减，小巧轻便，阅读方便。
Together in one indispensable volume,The Time Machine andThe Invisible Man are masterpieces of irony and imaginative vision from H. G. Wells, the father of science fiction. Convincing and unforgettably real, these two classics are consummate representations of the stories that defined science fiction and inspired generations of readers and writers.
With an Introduction by John Calvin Batchelor and an Afterword by Paul Youngquist
The Time Machine《时间机器》
一位名叫黑尔耶的科学家提出一套关于四维空间和时空穿梭的理论。他认为世界并不是三维的，而是包含时间维度的一个四维空间。按照这个推论，人既然可以在三维空间里运动，也应该可以在时间的隧道中穿梭。人可以回到过去，也可以提前进入未来。黑尔耶造出一个时问机器，并乘它飞到未来的802701年……
The Time Machine 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.
The Invisible Man《隐形人》
故事从南萨塞克斯郡一个乡村旅馆开始。一天，一个神秘的陌生人来投宿，他浑身上下遮掩得严严实实，只有一个粉色的鼻头露在外面。他整日把自己关在屋里，埋头于科学实验中，只在天黑时才出来活动。他态度粗暴无礼，不许任何人接近和打扰。他的种种怪异举动在村民中引起极大不安和各种猜测……
The Invisible Man is 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.
Herbert George Wells赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯（1866-1946)，英国著名小说家，尤以科幻小说创作闻名于世。1895年出版《时间机器》一举成名，随后又发表了《莫洛博士岛》《隐形人》《星际战争》《当睡着的人醒来时》《不灭的火焰》等多部科幻小说。
Herbert George Wells was born in Bromley, Kent, England, on September 21, 1866. 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 rescued him from a life of penury on a schoolteacher’s salary. His other “scientific romances”—The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898), The First Men in the Moon (1901), and The War in the Air (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 Outline of History (1920) and his later utopian works. Living until 1946, 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.”
John Calvin Batcheloris the acclaimed author of such imaginative novels asThe American Falls,People’s Republic of Antarctica, andGordon Liddy Is My Muse.
Paul Youngquist is professor of English and associate chair of Graduate Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. He’s the author of three books:Race, Romanticism, and The Atlantic;Madness and Blake’s Myth (1991); and "Monstrosities: Bodies and British Romanticism(2003), as well as numerous articles on a variety of subjects."
The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. His grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his usually pale face was flushed and animated. The fire burned brightly, and the soft radiance of the incandescent lights in the lilies of silver caught the bubbles that flashed and passed in our glasses. Our chairs, being his patents, embraced and caressed us rather than submitted to be sat upon, and there was that luxurious after-dinner atmosphere when thought roams gracefully free of the trammels of precision. And he put it to us in this way —marking the points with a lean forefinger —as we sat and lazily admired his earnestness over this new paradox (as we thought it:) and his fecundity.
“You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception.”
“Is not that rather a large thing to expect us to begin upon?” said Filby, an argumentative person with red hair.
“I do not mean to ask you to accept anything without reasonable ground for it. You will soon admit as much as I need from you. You know of course that a mathematical line, a line of thickness NIL, has no real existence. They taught you that? Neither has a mathematical plane. These things are mere abstractions.”
