When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802, 701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment & peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that this beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture now weak & childishly afraid of the dark. They have every reason to be afraid: in deep tunnels beneath their paradise lurks another race descended from humanity the sinister Morlocks. & when the scientist`s time machine vanishes, it becomes clear he must search these tunnels, if he is ever to return to his own era. ...

A special edition of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells reissued with a bright retro design to celebrate Pan`s 70th anniversary. A brilliant scientist constructs a machine, which, with the pull of a lever, propels him to the year AD 802, 701. The time traveller finds himself on an idyllic Earth inhabited by the small, incredibly beautiful Eloi people who live quiet, purposeless lives in paradise. Yet all is not as it seems, & beneath the earth Morlocks
- a terrifying, cannibal race that toil in the darkness
- are lying in wait... Considered by many to be the best science-fiction novel of all time, The Time Machine is a pioneering classic & truly gripping tale from the author of The War of the Worlds & The Invisible Man.

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Set at the turn of the century, The Time of Man tells the moving story of Ellen Chesser, a young woman with a mind of her own. She & her family travel from one small community to another in rural Kentucky, eking out a living as itinerant farmworkers. Initially she feels isolated & lonely, resenting the hardship of her life & longing to be with her childhood friends. Yet slowly she learns what it means to fall in love & forges lasting friendships with other young people at the local dances. She is left stunned, therefore, when the man she is to marry comes to her to confess a dark secret. His past is shameful to him & heartbreaking for her but Ellen`s independent spirit & strength of character sustain her in the aftermath. When further accusations come to light, they threaten to disturb the tranquility of her life & that of the community where she lives forever. Written in the subtle, soaring prose for which Elizabeth Madox Roberts was known, The Time of Man is a spectacular coming of age story. As she grows older, Ellen Chesser is forced to confront the darker side of human nature but ultimately manages to overcome the difficulties she faces with a resolute dignity. ...

“ The Time of the Hero” has been acclaimed by critics around the world as one of the outstanding Spanish novels of recent decades. In the author`s native Peru, this powerful social satire so outraged the authorities that a thousand copies were publicly burned. & that’s before you appreciate that it’s been written by an author as lyrically impressive as Mario Vargas Llosa. The novel is set in Leoncio Prado Military Academy in Lima, where a group of cadets attempt to break out of the vicious round of sadistic ragging, military discipline, confinement & boredom. But their pranks set off a cycle of betrayal, murder & revenge which jeopardizes the entire military hierarchy._`A work of undeniable power & skill.`_ * Sunday Telegraph* ...

One of the greatest & most overlooked novels of the twentieth century, by an author championed by Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk, The Time Regulation Institute appears here in English for the first time-more than fifty years after its original publication in Turkish. This is the story of the misadventures of Hayri Irdals, an unforgettable antihero who, along with an eccentric cast of characters (a television mystic, a pharmacist who dabbles in alchemy, a dignitary from the lost Ottoman empire, the ”life-artist” Halit), founds The Time Regulation Institute. The institute`s quixotic quest: to make sure all the clocks in Turkey are set to Western time. Thus begins a brilliant satire about the calamitous arrival of Western & corporate values in tradition-bound Turkey. An uproarious tragicomedy that is still startlingly relevant, The Time Regulation Institute illuminates the collision of East & West, tradition & modernity, that has been playing out in Turkey since the early twentieth century. Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar (1901-1962) was a poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist, literary historian, & professor. He is considered one of the most significant Turkish novelists of the 20th century. Deeply influenced by Valery & Bergson, he created a unique cultural universe in his work, bringing together a European literary voice & the sensibilities of the East. Maureen Freely (translator) is the principal translator of Orhan Pamuk, the Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist. She lives in Engl&. Alexander Dawe (translator) is an American translator of French & Turkish. He lives in Istanbul. Pankaj Mishra (introducer) is an award-winning novelist & essayist whose writing appears frequently in the New York Review of Books, The Guardian, & the London Review of Books. He lives in London & India. ...

Not many of us can claim to have dipped our handkerchiefs in Charles I`s blood after his execution, or to have watched Vesuvius erupt, but that`s about to change. Wyllie, Acton & Goldblatt`s Time Travel Handbook offers eighteen exceptional trips to the past, transporting you back to the greatest spectacles in history. We offer the chance to join Henry VIII at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, & to march on Versailles with the revolutionary women of Paris. You can sail with Captain Cook to Tahiti & Australia, & spend time at Xanadu with Marco Polo & Kubla Khan. Or, closer to the present, you might accompany Charlie Parker at the birth of bebop or The Beatles in Hamburg, & take part in the VE Day celebrations in London or the Fall of the Berlin Wall. The notable authors & time travel agents, Wyllie, Acton & Goldblatt are your guied to these & other unmissable events, charting the action as it will unfold, & advising on local customs, & what to wear, eat & drink, for the most authentic of experiences. Forget museums, forget history books
- the only way to do history is to live it.
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The Time Traveler’s Wife became an international best seller for author Audrey Niffenegger. The themes of love, loss & identity are centred on Clare & Henry, a couple who, quite literally never know who or where they are. Periodically & suddenly Henry’s genetic clock resets itself & he is pulled into his past or future; he is one of the first people to be diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder which means that, whilst they have known each other since Clare was six & Henry thirty six, the couple get married when Clare is twenty two & Henry thirty. The Time Traveler’s Wife depicts the “real” personal difficulties of time travel, looking at both the amusing & the harrowing effects it has on a couple’s passionate love for each other. ...

We think of Queen Elizabeth I as ' Gloriana': the most powerful English woman in history. We think of her reign (1558-1603) as a golden age of maritime heroes, like Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Richard Grenville & Sir Francis Drake, & of great writers, such as Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson & William Shakespeare. But what was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England? If you could travel to the past & walk the streets of London in the 1590s, where would you stay? What would you eat? What would you wear? Would you really have a sense of it being a glorious age? & if so, how would that glory sit alongside the vagrants, diseases, violence, sexism & famine of the time? In this book Ian Mortimer answers the key questions that a prospective traveller to late sixteenth-century England would ask. Applying the groundbreaking approach he pioneered in his bestselling Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval Engl&, the Elizabethan world unfolds around the reader. He shows a society making great discoveries & winning military victories & yet at the same time being troubled by its new-found awareness. It is a country in which life expectancy at birth is in the early thirties, people still starve to death & Catholics are persecuted for their faith. Yet it produces some of the finest writing in the English language & some of the most magnificent architecture, & sees Elizabeth's subjects settle in America & circumnavigate the globe. Welcome to a country that is, in all its contradictions, the very crucible of the modern world. ...

The past is a foreign country
- this is your guide. We think of Queen Elizabeth I`s reign (1558-1603) as a golden age. But what
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The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there... Imagine you could travel back to the fourteenth century. What would you see, & hear, & smell? Where would you stay? What are you going to eat? & how are you going to test to see if you are going down with the plague? In The Time Traveller`s Guide... Ian Mortimer`s radical new approach turns our entire understanding of history upside down. History is not just something to be studied; it is also something to be lived, whether that`s the life of a peasant or a lord. The result is perhaps the most astonishing history book you are ever likely to read; as revolutionary as it is informative, as entertaining as it is startling. ...