The time ship : a chrononautical journey / Enrique Gaspar ; edited, translated, and introduced by Yolanda Molina-Gavilán and Andrea Bell ; with illustrations by Francesc Soler from the original 1887 edition.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gaspar, Enrique, 1842-1902.

Contributor:

Molina-Gavilán, Yolanda.

Bell, Andrea L., 1960-

Standardized Title:

Anacronópete. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Physical Description:

xlii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2012]

Summary:

H. G. Wells wasn't the only nineteenth-century writer to dream of a time machine. The Spanish playwright Enrique Gaspar published El anacronópete--"He who flies against time"--eight years before Wells's influential work appeared. The novel begins at the 1878 Paris Exposition, where Dr. Don Sindulfo unveils his new invention--which looks like a giant sailing vessel. Soon the doctor embarks on a voyage back in time, accompanied by a motley crew of French prostitutes and Spanish soldiers. The purpose of his expedition is to track down the imprisoned wife of a third-century Chinese emperor, believed to possess the secret to immortality. A classic tale of obsession, high adventure, and star-crossed love, The Time Ship includes intricately drawn illustrations from the original 1887 edition, and a critical introduction that argues persuasively for The Time Ship's historical importance to science fiction and world literature. Hardcover is un-jacketed.

Contents:

In Which It Is Proved That FORWARD Is Not the Byword of Progress

A Lecture within Everyone's Reach

Theory of Time: How It Is Made, How It Is Unmade

Which Deals with Family Affairs

Cupid and Mars

The Vehicle as School of Morality

Away!

Retroactive Effects

The Gradual Reduction and Ultimate Elimination of the Army

In Which a Seemingly Insignificant Yet Greatly Important Incident Takes Place

A Bit of Tiresome, Though Necessary, Erudition

Forty-eight Hours in the Celestial Empire

Nineteenth-century Europe Meets Third-century China

An Unexpected Guest

The Resurrection of the Dead before Judgment Day

Where All Is Explained and All Is Entangled

Bread and Circuses

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

Shipwrecked in the Sky

The Best One; Not Because It's Better but Because It's Last.

Notes:

"With illustrations by Francesc Soler from the original 1887 edition."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-193).

ISBN:

9780819572387

0819572381

9780819572936

0819572934

9780819572394

081957239X

OCLC:

758844709