
The "Time Machine"
H. G. Wells(Author)
Penguin Classics (Publisher)
Published on 29. November 2007
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Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-0-14-102895-8 (ISBN)
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When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that this beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture - now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. They have every reason to be afraid: in deep tunnels beneath their paradise lurks another race descended from humanity - the sinister Morlocks. And when the scientist's time machine vanishes, it becomes clear he must search these tunnels, if he is ever to return to his own era.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Penguin Books Ltd
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Paperback (UK-A)
Dimensions
Height: 181 mm
Width: 111 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
73 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-102895-8 (9780141028958)
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H. G. Wells was a professional writer and journalist, who published more than a hundred books, including novels, histories, essays and programmes for world regeneration. Wells's prophetic imagination was first displayed in pioneering works of science fiction, but later he became an apostle of socialism, science and progress. His controversial views on sexual equality and the shape of a truly developed nation remain directly relevant to our world today. He was, in Bertrand Russell's words, 'an important liberator of thought and action'.