导语
内容提要
H.G.威尔斯著的《时间机器与隐身人(英文版)/神鸟新经典》包含《时间机器》和《隐身人》两部作品。
《时间机器》是令威尔斯声誉鹊起的处女作,也是其杰出代表作之一。通过《时间机器》,威尔斯表达了对人类终极处境的关怀,拨动了亿万颗不安的心灵。人类自诞生之日起就感叹生命的短暂,然而威尔斯竟设想出一架能自由穿梭于时空中的机器,而且从理论到实践均构思得天衣无缝,只要人类还为时空的局限所困,《时间机器》的魅力将永不消减。
1897年发表的《隐身人》亦是威尔斯流传深远、广受欢迎的作品。《隐身人》将视角转向了科学技术本身,向读者展现了科技无限发展后潜在的负面效应。威尔斯警示人们科学是把双刃剑,既可造福人类,又能招致灭顶之灾,在物欲横流的社会,科学发明一旦落入自私者之手,后果将不堪设想。
目录
BOOK I THE TIME MACHINE
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION
Chapter 2 THE MACHINE
Chapter 3 THE TIME TRAVELLER RETURNS
Chapter 4 TIME TRAVELLING
Chapter 5 IN THE GOLDEN AGE
Chapter 6 THE SUNSET OF MANKIND
Chapter 7 A SUDDEN SHOCK
Chapter 8 EXPLANATION
Chapter 9 THE MORLOCKS
Chapter 10 WHEN NIGHT CAME
Chapter 11 THE PALACE OF GREEN PORCELAIN
Chapter 12 IN THE DARKNESS
Chapter 13 THE TRAP OF THE WHITE SPHINX
Chapter 14 THE FURTHER VISION
Chapter 15 THE TIME TRAVELLER'S RETURN
Chapter 16 AFTER THE STORY
EPILOGUE
BOOK II THE INVISIBLE MAN
Chapter 1 THE STRANGE MAN'S ARRIVAL
Chapter 2 MR. TEDDY HENFREY'S FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Chapter 3 THE THOUSAND AND ONE BOTTLES
Chapter 4 MR. CUSS INTERVIEWS THE STRANGER
Chapter 5 THE BURGLARY AT THE VICARAGE
Chapter 6 THE FURNITURE THAT WENT MAD
Chapter 7 THE UNVEILING OF THE STRANGER
Chapter 8 IN TRANSIT
Chapter 9 MR. THOMAS MARVEL
Chapter 10 MR. MARVEL'S VISIT TO IPING
Chapter 11 IN THE “COACH AND HORSES”
Chapter 12 THE INVISIBLE MAN LOSES HIS TEMPER
Chapter 13 MR. MARVEL DISCUSSES HIS RESIGNATION
Chapter 14 AT PORT STOWE
Chapter 15 THE MAN WHO WAS RUNNING
Chapter 16 IN THE “JOLLY CRICKETERS”
Chapter 17 DR. KEMP'S VISITOR
Chapter 18 THE INVISIBLE MAN SLEEPS
Chapter 19 CERTAIN FIRST PRINCIPLES
Chapter 20 AT THE HOUSE IN GREAT PORTLAND STREET
Chapter 21 IN OXFORD STREET
Chapter 22 IN THE EMPORIUM
Chapter 23 IN DRURY LANE
Chapter 24 THE PLAN THAT FAILED
Chapter 25 THE HUNTING OF THE INVISIBLE MAN
Chapter 26 THE WICKSTEED MURDER
Chapter 27 THE SIEGE OF KEMP'S HOUSE
Chapter 28 THE HUNTER HUNTED
THE EPILOGUE