Publisher's Synopsis
About the Series "TIME TRAVEL IN LITERATURE". Notable novels and short stories in which time travel is central to the plot or the premise of the work.Volume 1. W. IRVING / C. DICKENS. - Rip Van Winkle Illustrated by Arthur Rackham (1819) by Washington Irving. A man falls asleep on a mountain side and wakes twenty years in the future. He finds he has been forgotten, his wife has died and his daughter is no longer a child.- A Christmas Carol Illustrated by John Leech (1843) by Charles Dickens The heartless Ebenezer Scrooge, an old miser, is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come, in order to teach him the consequences of his selfish ways.Volume 2. .E. BELLAMY / W. MORRIS. - Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (1888 ) by Edward Bellamy. In the late 19th century, Julian West falls into a deep, hypnosis-induced sleep and wakes 113 years later. - A Dream of John Ball (1888) by William Morris. John Ball travels between mediaeval and contemporary worlds.Volume 3. E. P. MITCHELL / H. G. WELLS. -The Tachypomp (1881) by Edward Page Mitchell. The first story to use a machine for time travel.-The Chronic Argonauts (1888) by H. G. Wells. An inventor takes a companion in his time machine. The companion narrates the story of their subsequent adventures. -The Time Machine (1895) H. G. Wells. An inventor creates a time machine and travels to the year 802,701 AD. There, humans have evolved into two species, Morlocks and Eloi. Volume 4. L. CARROLL. / M. TWAIN.-Sylvie and Bruno (1889) by Lewis Carroll.A watch both tells and determines time. -A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) by Mark Twain. A man of the 19th century travels back to 528 AD in King Arthur's time.
