The Time Machine

Name: The Time Machine
Author: H.G. Wells
ISBN: 9780191017100

by H.G. Wells

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Originally published as «Time machine» (UND)

'So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-nots, the Workers...' At a Victorian dinner party, in Richmond, London, the Time Traveller 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 brothers. The first book H. G. Wells published, The Time Machine is a scienti...

First published 1895161 pages

NPR Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books (2011)

823.91203

Category: Science Fiction
Priority: Must-Read
Author works: 13
Editions known: 400

Classification

Dewey (DDC): 823.91203808.83[Fic]823.912
Library of Congress (LCC): PR5774.T5 2004PR5774.T5 2009bPZ0007.70000000.D385Tim 2014PN6728

Subjects

AdaptationsAnimal experimentationAnimal experimentation in fictionBritish and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)Cartoons and comicsChild and youth fictionChildren's fictionCiencia-ficciónClassic LiteratureColor, juvenile literatureColoring booksComic and Graphic Books

This edition

ISBN 9780191017100English

DATE DUE

First published1895

Film adaptation1960

TV adaptation1978

Adaptation adaptation1997

Film adaptation2002

NPR Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books2011

Radio adaptation2017

StatusREAD

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