Social Imagination All novels are influenced by the social and cultural background of their authors, and clearly 'The Time Machine' is no exception. In view of this, there is a great deal which can be concluded from the respective ways in which the tale is presented. Wells prefaced his romance by a sketch in the old PALL-MALL GAZETTE, entitled "The Man of the Year Million", a priori study that made one thankful for one's prematurity. …showed first 75 words of 855 total…

…showed last 75 words of 855 total…with his normal eyes, and finding it, more particularly, incomplete. At the age of twenty-seven or so, he had freed himself very completely from the bonds of conventional thought, and was prepared to examine, and to present life from the detached standpoint of one who views it all from a respectable distance. But who is able, nevertheless -- an essential qualification -- to enter life with all the passion and generosity of his own humanity.