The Time Machine 1895
By H. G. Wells
- Self-experimentation in medicine in fiction, Fiction, Time travel in fiction, Dystopias in fiction
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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- Author
- H. G. Wells
- First published
- 1895
- Pages
- 120
- Publisher
- Pegasus, ICON Group International, Inc., Saddleback Educational Publishing, Inc.
- Editions
- 1146
- Language
- Italian, English, tam, und
- ISBN
- 9781605972299
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“THE TIME TRAVELLER (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.”
Herbert George Wells was an English author, best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary.
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