The Time Machine

"The first great time travel story and one of the great science fiction novels of all times. A risky and extremely acute speculation not only in the scientific, but, and especially, in the social and political. Wells' Crononaut will travel through different moments of our future to end up in a remote and apparently utopian society in which humanity has been divided into two species as antagonistic as they are dependent on each other: the peaceful Elois and the sinister Morlocks. The social evolution that prefigures this scenario remains, more than a hundred years after its publication, one of the most brilliant and shocking moments in science fiction of all time"--Page 4 of the cover.

Presents the classic science fiction thriller that describes the adventures of the Time Traveler whose fantastic invention takes him to the world of the future. A scientist invents a time machine and uses it to travel to the year 802,701 AD, where he discovers the childish Eloi and the horrible underground Morlocks.

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Victorian Era, 802701Showing 11 featured editions. See all 1146 editions?

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Translation of: The time machine. Originally published: London: William Heinemann, 1895.

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The Time Traveler, a dreamer obsessed with time travel, builds a time machine and, to his surprise, travels more than 800,000 years into the future. Land in the year 802701: the world has been transformed by a society that lives in apparent harmony and happiness, but when the Traveler remains in the future, he discovers a hidden, barbaric and depraved underground class. Wells's transparent commentary on capitalist society was an ins