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An edition of The Time Machine (1895)

The Time Machine

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H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, from 1895, popularized the idea of a vehicle that allows its user to travel intentionally and selectively across time, and indeed Wells is credited with coining the very term "time machine." The Time Traveler of this novella tests his time machine with a leap forward to the year 802,701 A.D., to find that evolution has produced two very different post-human races - the peaceful and childlike fruit-eating Eloi and the Morlocks - pale, darkness-dwelling troglodites who operate the underground machinery that makes this seeming paradise possible.

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Victorian Era, 802701

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Cover of: The time machine
The time machine
2016, Wisehouse Classics
in English - Wisehouse Classics edition.
Cover of: La máquina del tiempo
La máquina del tiempo
2015, Sportula
in Spanish - Primera edición.
Cover of: The Time Machine
The Time Machine
Jan 10, 2015, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
paperback
Cover of: The Time Machine
The Time Machine
2014, Standard Ebooks
in English
Cover of: The Time Machine
The Time Machine
2009, The Floating Press
E-book in English
Cover of: Time Machine
Time Machine
2008, Real Reads Ltd., Real Reads
in English
Cover of: The Time Machine
The Time Machine
oktober 2, 2004, octopus publishing house
in English
Cover of: Time Machine
Time Machine
2004, Wildside Press, LLC
in English
Cover of: Time Machine, The (sch Cl) (Scholastic Classics)
Time Machine, The (sch Cl) (Scholastic Classics)
March 1, 2004, Scholastic Paperbacks, Scholastic
in English
Cover of: Time Machine
Time Machine
2003, Hinkler Books Pty, Limited
in English
Cover of: Time Machine
Time Machine
2002, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
in English
Cover of: Time Machine, The
Time Machine, The
January 1, 1984, Bantam Classics
Mass Market Paperback in English

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OL24283595M
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9781877527180
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The Time Traveller, a dreamer obsessed with traveling through time, builds himself a time machine and, much to his surprise, travels over 800,000 years into the future. He lands in the year 802701: the world has been transformed by a society living in apparent harmony and bliss, but as the Traveler stays in the future he discovers a hidden barbaric and depraved subterranean class. Wells's transparent commentary on the capitalist society was an instant bestseller and launched the time-travel genre.

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