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The Time Machine

An Invention

An Invention

By H. G. Wells
Illustrated by W.A. Dwiggins
Introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin

By H. G. Wells
Illustrated by W.A. Dwiggins
Introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin

By H. G. Wells

By H. G. Wells

By H. G. Wells
Illustrated by W.A. Dwiggins
Introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin

By H. G. Wells
Illustrated by W.A. Dwiggins
Introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin

By H. G. Wells
Read by Derek Jacobi

By H. G. Wells
Read by Derek Jacobi

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Part of Modern Library Classics

Part of Modern Library Classics

Paperback $10.00

Nov 12, 2002 | ISBN 9780375761188

Mass Market Paperback $5.95

Jan 01, 1984 | ISBN 9780553213515

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Aug 10, 2011 | ISBN 9780307757784

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Jun 11, 2013 | 236 Minutes | Middle Grade (10 and up)

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    About The Time Machine

    When the intrepid Time Traveller finds himself in the year 802,701, he encounters a seemingly utopian society of evolved human beings but then unearths the dark secret that sets mankind on course toward its inevitable destruction. An insightful look into a distant, bleak, and disturbing future, The Time Machine goes beyond the reaches of science fiction to provide a strikingly relevant discussion of social progress, class struggle, and the human condition.

    Hailed as a masterpiece of its genre, H. G. Wells’s famous novella about the perils of history and the hubris of modernity comes vividly alive in this remarkable reissue of a unique 1931 illustrated edition.

    About The Time Machine

    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 these marvelous beings—unearth their secret and then return to his own time—until he discovered that his invention, his only avenue of escape, had been stolen.

    H. G. Wells’s famous novel of one man’s astonishing journey beyond the conventional limits of the imagination first appeared in 1895. It won him immediate recognition and has been regarded ever since as one of the great masterpieces in the literature of science fiction.

    About The Time Machine

    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 these marvelous beings—unearth their secret and then return to his own time—until he discovered that his invention, his only avenue of escape, had been stolen.

    H. G. Wells’s famous novel of one man’s astonishing journey beyond the conventional limits of the imagination first appeared in 1895. It won him immediate recognition and has been regarded ever since as one of the great masterpieces in the literature of science fiction.

    About The Time Machine

    When the Time Traveller courageously stepped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the year 802,700–and everything has changed.  In another, more utopian age, creatures seemed to dwell together in perfect harmony.  The Time Traveller thought he could study these marvelous beings–unearth their secret and then retum to his own time–until he discovered that his invention, his only avenue of escape, had been stolen.  

    H.G. Well’s famous novel of one man’s astonishing journey beyond the conventional limits of the imagination first appeared in 1895.  It won him immediate recognition, and has been regarded ever since as one of the great masterpieces in the literature of science fiction.

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    About H. G. Wells

    H.G. Wells was born in Bromley, Kent, in 1866. After an education repeatedly interrupted by his family’s financial problems, he eventually found work as a teacher at a succession of schools, where he began to write his first stories. Wells… More about H. G. Wells

    About H. G. Wells

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    About H. G. Wells

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    Product Details

    Category: Fiction Classics | Science Fiction & Fantasy

    Paperback | $10.00
    Published by Modern Library
    Nov 12, 2002 | 136 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375761188

    Category: Fiction Classics | Science Fiction & Fantasy

    Mass Market Paperback | $5.95
    Published by Bantam Classics
    Jan 01, 1984 | 128 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | ISBN 9780553213515

    Category: Fiction Classics | Science Fiction & Fantasy

    Ebook | $2.99
    Published by Modern Library
    Aug 10, 2011 | 136 Pages | ISBN 9780307757784

    Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Audiobooks | Children’s Middle Grade Books

    Audiobook Download | $18.00
    Published by Listening Library
    Jun 11, 2013 | 236 Minutes | Middle Grade (10 and up) | ISBN 9780804122276
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    “[Wells] contrives to give over humanity into the clutches of the Impossible and yet manages to keep it down (or up) to its humanity, to its flesh, blood, sorrow, folly.” —Joseph Conrad

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