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  • Published: 15 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241746721
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $14.99

The Time Machine




90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books

The Time Machine is the great, gleeful anarchist novel of the 1890s. It is both a thrilling adventure story and a satire on religion, evolution and human hopes. With this book, Wells invented an entirely new genre and did it better than any of his imitators.

An immediate bestseller, it has delighted and unnerved generations of readers, and will no doubt keep on doing so until some of the events predicted in the book make readers extinct.

  • Published: 15 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241746721
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $14.99

Other books in the series

The New Penguin Book Of American Short Stories, From Washington Irving To Lydia Davis
A Dog's Heart
The Black Tulip
The Lady of the Camellias
Selected Poetry
Venus in Furs
Man and Superman
Botchan
Military Dispatches
The Prelude

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