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  • Published: 15 April 2017
  • ISBN: 9780525432357
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $27.99

The Time Machine




An ever-popular novel about the future of the human race from the founding father of science fiction. VINTAGE CLASSICS.

The first great novel to imagine time travel, H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine (1895) follows its narrator on an incredible journey that takes him eventually to the earth’s last moments. When a Victorian scientist invents a machine that allows him to travel to the year A.D. 802,701, he encounters a highly evolved society of people called Eloi, for whom suffering has apparently been replaced by refinement and harmony. First impressions are misleading, however, and his discovery of the Eloi’s true relationship to the brutish Morlocks who lurk in tunnels beneath them leads him to a horrifying insight into the fate of mankind and its roots in his own time.

  • Published: 15 April 2017
  • ISBN: 9780525432357
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $27.99

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