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The Time Machine

By H. G. Wells

First published 1895

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.

Published
30 Nov 2025
Pages
136
Publisher
Pocketsize Publishing
Edition
Paperback
Elsewhere
Open Library

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