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‘More a book about Victorian society than that of the future’, is this a fair reflection of ‘The Time Machine’?
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'More a book about Victorian society than that of the future', is this a fair reflection of 'The Time Machine'? `"Long ago I had a vague inkling of a machine...that shall travel indifferently in any direction of Space and Time, as the driver determines." Filby contented himself with laughter. ''But I have experimental verification," said the Time Traveller. ` Wells was born into British poverty to a working class family: father a gardener, shopkeeper and cricketer; mother a maid and housekeeper. However, his quick mind and good memory enabled him to pass subject exams and win scholarship to what is now the honoured Royal College of Science where he studied under the respected Darwinist, T.H. Huxley. The Victorian social hierarchy was very specific; the divide between the aristocracy and proletariat being much more distinct than of our contemporary society. Rapid growth in technology, education, and capital had launched the Industrial Revolution in the 17th...
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