Join Edwin Frank, editor of our NYRB Classics series and the author of Stranger than Fiction: The Lives of the Twentieth Century Novel, as he explores the shaping influence science fiction has exercised on the modern political novel. This seminar covers H.G. Wells’s novella The Time Machine along with The Island of Dr. Moreau, and Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed.

Your purchase comes with complete access to the three seminar sessions recorded in fall, 2025, featuring Frank’s introductory lectures plus the lively seminar discussions. This all-inclusive package also grants access to supplementary readings and guided reading prompts curated by the seminar host, so you can dive deeper into these great classics.

This seminar package includes three one-hour sessions. This course uses the Penguin Classics editions of The Time Machine and The Island of Dr. Moreau, and the Harper Perennial edition of The Dispossessed.