Matthew Beaumont is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at University College London. He is the author of Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London, Chaucer to Dickens (2015) and The Spectre of Utopia: Utopian and Science Fictions at the Fin de Siècle (2012). He has edited Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and Walter Pater's Studies in the History of the Renaissance for Oxford World's Classics.
[An] informative introduction... reading these OWC editions has
enhanced my pleasure hugely; the introductions are always well
written and give just the right amount of information to inform
without overloading the reader with lots of irrelevant detail or
academic jargon.
*Leah Galbraith, FictionFan*
Very smart-looking new editions of SF classics.
*David V Barrett, Fortean Times*
The ideas that Wells explores are as relevant as ever
*Desperate Reader*
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