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When the Time Traveller courageously stepped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the year 802,700--and everything had changed. In this unfamiliar, utopian age creatures seemed to dwell together in perfect harmony. The Time Traveller thought he could study... Read Full Overview

When the Time Traveller courageously stepped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the year 802,700--and everything had changed. In this unfamiliar, utopian age creatures seemed to dwell together in perfect harmony. The Time Traveller thought he could study... Read Full Overview

Wells's genre-defining novel of time travel

Embark on a captivating adventure with H.G. Wells' The Time Machine. Witness humanity's future, explore the depths of time, and ponder on profound questions. This unabridged edition guarantees an immersive experience.

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells is a classic science fiction novel that takes readers on a thrilling journey through time. As the Time Traveller explores the future, he encounters dystopian societies and grapples with the profound implications of human evolution.

There are really four dimensions, three which we call the three planes of Space, and a fourth, Time.

The Original 1895 Classic

When an English Scientist, known only as the Time Traveller, invents a machine that can travel... Read Full Overview

Travel into the future in this abridged retelling of The Time Machine, part of the bestselling Classic Starts(R) series that has sold more than 8 million copies!
After inventing a time machine, the Traveler leaves Victorian London and goes far, far... Read Full Overview

Chiltern Publishing creates the most beautiful editions of the World's finest literature. Your favorite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, fine details and beautiful colors of these remarkable covers make these titles feel extra... Read Full Overview

H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine" launched the science fiction genre. Over time, it has been adapted into different formats, and with each adaptation, changes from the original had to be made. Sometimes it is nice to see how things all began, without all of the alterations made... Read Full Overview

"A Pioneering Foray into Science Fiction" -The New Yorker

The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 and written as a frame narrative. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel... Read Full Overview

Intrigued by the possibilities of time travel as a student and inspired as a journalist by the great scientific advances of the Victorian Age, Wells drew on his own scientific publications--on evolution, degeneration, species extinction, geologic time, and biology--in writing... Read Full Overview

At a Victorian dinner party in Richmond, London, the Time Traveler returns to tell his extraordinary tale of mankind's future in the year 802,701 AD. It is a dystopian vision of Darwinian evolution, with humans split into an above-ground species of Eloi, and their troglodyte... Read Full Overview

After years of experimentation, a Victorian inventor constructs a machine to travel through time. He demonstrates a miniature working model to his friends and then shows them the actual Time Machine, but they do not believe him. One day he climbs upon the machine and vanishes... Read Full Overview

There are really four dimensions, three which we call the three planes of Space, and a fourth, Time.

Book #3 of 20 in the SDE Classics Science Fiction Collection

When an English Scientist, known only as the Time Traveller, invents a machine that... Read Full Overview

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H.G. Wells, a pioneer in the science fiction genre, produced awesomely imaginative novels whose technologies seem impossibly sophisticated for a writer living in an era before automobiles and the widespread application of electricity. In his work The Time Machine, Wells' Time... Read Full Overview

In his quest to discover what the future holds for mankind, the Time Traveler creates an ingenious machine-- a Time Machine that zips past sunsets, lands, oceans and centuries in the bat of an eyelid. However, instead of making pathbreaking discoveries, the Time Traveler... Read Full Overview

The revolutionary novel that catapulted readers into the future, from the father of science fiction, H.G. Wells. "I've had a most amazing time...." So begins the Time Traveller's astonishing firsthand account of his journey eight hundred thousand years beyond his own era--and... Read Full Overview