20 Time Travel Classics
Victorian and Edwardian Voyages Through Utopias, Dystopias, Gothic Fantasies, and Far-Future WorldsBy H. G. Wells, William Hope Hodgson, Mark Twain, Abraham Merritt, Edward Bellamy, Frederic W. Farrar, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett, Edmond About, Henry Holt, Robert Hugh Benson, Edith Nesbit, Edwin Lester Arnold, Jane C. Loudon, William Henry Hudson, Gertrude Barrows Bennett, Francis Stevens, William Morris
Length220h 10m
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20 Time Travel Classics surveys the imaginative history of temporal displacement, assembling romances, satires, speculative adventures, moral fables, and proto-scientific narratives from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its selections reveal time travel not merely as a device of wonder but as a means of testing progress, empire, religion, technology, gender, and social order. Fantastical journeys into remote futures and vanished pasts stand beside darker visions of degeneration and catastrophe, demonstrating the genre's remarkable formal and philosophical range. The volume brings together major architects of modern speculative fiction with less frequently anthologized innovators whose work enlarged its possibilities. These writers emerged from overlapping traditions of Victorian sensation fiction, Gothic romance, utopian and dystopian thought, children's fantasy, imperial adventure, and early science fiction. Across their varied national, cultural, and ideological settings, they use imagined temporal mobility to confront the tensions of industrial modernity: evolutionary anxiety, class conflict, spiritual doubt, and faith in reform. The collection consequently situates time travel within the broader development of fantastic literature rather than treating it as a narrowly technological genre. Recommended for students, scholars, and curious general readers, this anthology offers an unusually rich opportunity to trace a foundational literary idea across contrasting voices and styles. It rewards comparative reading, revealing how each narrative reframes history and futurity while entering into dialogue with the others. As both an accessible gateway and a substantial teaching resource, it illuminates the enduring power of time travel to make the present newly strange.
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GenreScience Fiction
Length220 hrs 10 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 1, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Syren of the Skies (Annotated)
2The Time Machine
3CHAPTER I
4CHAPTER II
5CHAPTER III
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6CHAPTER IV
7CHAPTER V
8CHAPTER VI
9CHAPTER VII
10CHAPTER VIII
11CHAPTER IX
12CHAPTER X
13CHAPTER XI
14CHAPTER XII
15When The Sleeper Wakes
16CHAPTER I. INSOMNIA
17CHAPTER II THE TRANCE
18CHAPTER III THE AWAKENING
19CHAPTER IV THE SOUND OF A TUMULT
20CHAPTER V THE MOVING WAYS
21CHAPTER VI THE HALL OF THE ATLAS
22CHAPTER VII IN THE SILENT ROOMS
23CHAPTER VIII THE ROOF SPACES
24CHAPTER IX THE PEOPLE MARCH
25CHAPTER X THE BATTLE OF THE DARKNESS
26CHAPTER XI THE OLD MAN WHO KNEW EVERYTHING
27CHAPTER XII OSTROG
28CHAPTER XIII THE END OF THE OLD ORDER
29CHAPTER XIV FROM THE CROW’S NEST
30CHAPTER XV PROMINENT PEOPLE
31CHAPTER XVI THE MONOPLANE
32CHAPTER XVII THREE DAYS
33CHAPTER XVIII GRAHAM REMEMBERS
34CHAPTER XIX OSTROG’S POINT OF VIEW
35CHAPTER XX IN THE CITY WAYS
36CHAPTER XXI THE UNDERSIDE
37CHAPTER XXII THE STRUGGLE IN THE COUNCIL HOUSE
38CHAPTER XXIII GRAHAM SPEAKS HIS WORD
39CHAPTER XXIV WHILE THE AEROPLANES WERE COMING
40CHAPTER XXV THE COMING OF THE AEROPLANES
41The Night Land
42The Dreams that are only Dreams
43I Mirdath the Beautiful
44II The Last Redoubt
45III The Quiet Calling
46IV The Hushing of the Voice
47V Into the Night Land
48VI The Way That I Did Go
49VII The Night Land
50VIII Down the Mighty Slope
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