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• The Rediscovery of the Unique (excerpt) • (1891) • essay by H. G. Wells
• vii • Preface (The Time Machine) • essay by Stephen Arata
• ix • A Note on the Text • essay by Stephen Arata
• 1 • The Time Machine: An Invention: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism • [H. G. Wells' Time Machine Universe] • novel by H. G. Wells (variant of The Time Machine 1895)
• 75 • The Chronic Argonauts • (1888) • novelette by H. G. Wells
• 94 • Revising the Chronic Argonauts • (1930) • essay by Geoffrey H. Wells [as by Geoffrey West]
• 95 • The Time Machine (National Observer serial version) • [H. G. Wells' Time Machine Universe] • (1894) • short fiction by H. G. Wells
• 118 • Alternate Ending: The Last Voyage of the Time Machine • [H. G. Wells' Time Machine Universe] • short fiction by H. G. Wells
• 120 • New Review Time Machine (excerpts) • [H. G. Wells' Time Machine Universe] • short fiction by H. G. Wells
• 127 • Cancelled Episode: The Return of the Time Traveller • [H. G. Wells' Time Machine Universe] • short fiction by H. G. Wells
• 133 • Zoological Retrogression • (1891) • essay by H. G. Wells
• 136 • On Extinction • (1893) • essay by H. G. Wells
• 138 • The Man of the Year Million: A Scientific Forecast • (1893) • essay by H. G. Wells
• 143 • The Extinction of Man: Some Speculative Suggestions • essay by H. G. Wells
• 147 • The "Cyclic Delusion" (excerpt) • (1894) • essay by H. G. Wells
• 150 • Preface to the Atlantic Edition of The Time Machine (excerpt) • (1924) • essay by H. G. Wells
• 151 • Preface (The Time Machine) • (1931) • essay by H. G. Wells
• 154 • Preface to Seven Famous Novels (excerpt) • essay by H. G. Wells
• 157 • A Chapter in Darwinism (excerpt from Degeneration) • essay by Edwin Ray Lankester
• 163 • A Programme (excerpt from The Struggle for Existence) • (1888) • essay by Thomas Henry Huxley
• 169 • Social Evolution (excerpt) • (1894) • essay by Benjamin Kidd
• 173 • On the Age of the Sun's Heat (excerpt) • (1862) • essay by William Thomson
• 174 • The Unseen Universe (excerpt) • (1885) • essay by Balfour Stewart and Peter Guthrie Tait
• 179 •   Review: The Time Machine by H. G. Wells • (1895) • review by R. H. Hutton [as by Richard Holt Hutton]
• 182 •   Review: The Time Machine by H. G. Wells • (1895) • review by uncredited
• 184 •   Review: The Time Machine by H. G. Wells • (1895) • review by Israel Zangwill
• 188 • Wells's Urban Fairy Tales • essay by
  Евгений Замятин^?Yevgeny Zamyatin
  (trans. of
  Уэллс^?Uells
  1920) [as by Yevgeny Zamyatin]
• 190 • Wells the Myth-Maker • (1961) • essay by Bernard Bergonzi
• 202 • Eat or Be Eaten: H. G. Wells Time Machine • (1990) • essay by Kathryn Hume
• 213 • The Apocalyptic Fables of H. G. Wells • (1992) • essay by Elaine Showalter
• 222 • The Time Machine and Wells's Social Trajectory • (1995) • essay by John Huntington
• 229 • The Empire of the Future: Imperialism and Modernism in H. G. Wells • (2006) • essay by Paul A. Cantor and Peter Hugnagel
• 243 • H. G. Wells and the Machine in Victorian Literature • (1993) • essay by Colin Manlove
• 252 • The Scientific Romance and the Evolutionary Paradigm • (1980) • essay by Roger Luckhurst
• 260 • H. G. Wells: A Chronology • essay by uncredited
• 266 • Selected Bibliography (The Time Machine) • essay by uncredited