![]() ![]() In another, a black man sat by an elaborate microscope. In one, an Oriental woman was peering at a kind of chemical tube. They were all of people in white lab coats. The first thing I noticed was four enormous portraits on the wall. ![]() But one passage made me laugh aloud and confirmed that the chapter must have been an original creation by Bogart: The new chapter takes place in the 22nd century, in which technology has advanced considerably and the world has been reorganized by the World Science Governing Board, an idea that seems reasonably consistent with Wells' notions of social progress (although there's no mention of socialism). I scrounged around for a while looking for my old Illustrated Classics copy (it turned out to be on my niece's bookshelf) and discovered that Shirley Bogart, who had performed the adaptation, had added a whole new chapter called "The Golden Age of Science" right before the Time Traveler's return to the 19th century. Only last week, I finally got around to reading Wells' original, and enjoyed it immensely, but something seemed to be missing. ![]() ![]() It was heavily abridged and the language was somewhat modernized, but it wasn't until several years later that I realized I hadn't been reading the real thing. When I was a child I got great enjoyment out of the 1983 Illustrated Classics Edition of The Time Machine by H.G. ![]()
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