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The Time Machine

A Victorian inventor visits the far future and finds comfort and horror entwined beneath a dying sun. H. G.

by H. G. Wells

First published 1895


About this book

An unnamed Time Traveller gathers friends to explain a startling invention: a machine that moves through the fourth dimension. When he activates it, he lands in the year 802,701 among the gentle Eloi, who live in apparent idyll, until night falls and deeper truths emerge about how humanity has changed. Wells uses the journey to ask sharp questions about class, progress, and decay, compressing social criticism into swift, vivid adventure. Short enough to finish in an evening yet dense with ideas, The Time Machine established time travel as a literary genre and still reads with uncanny urgency.

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