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by H.G. Wells (Author)
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  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Phoenix; New edition edition (7 Aug 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0460877356
  • ISBN-13: 978-0460877350
  • Product Dimensions: 19 x 12.7 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 51,505 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The first of Wells's scientific romances, this novel combines social and political allegory with an attempt to predict the future.

About the Author
HG Wells was born in Bromley, Kent in 1866. After working as a draper's apprentice and pupil-teacher, he won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in 1884, studying under T H Huxley. He was awarded a first-class honours degree in biology and resumed teaching but had to retire after a kick from an ill-natured pupil afflicted his kidneys. He worked in poverty in London as a crammer while experimenting in journalism and stories. It was with The Time Machine (1895) that he had his real breakthrough.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The first and still the best Time Travel story!, 22 Mar 2001
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H.G. Wells' great work of science fiction tells the story of a Nineteenth Century inventor who propells himself to the remote future where he meets the people of 802,701 A.D, the childlike and curious looking Eloi. At first The Time Traveller is impressed to see that ugliness has been replaced by beauty in every way; weeds by flowers, gnats by butterflies etc. The people of the future swim, eat and play, yet do not need to work. But all is not as it first seems. The Time Traveller soon discovers the nature of the Eloi's Utopian existance, and realises that even after almost a million years there are masters and slaves; that man will kill man for his own needs and that a perfect world is still not possible in the distant future. Written in the inimitable style of the Nineteenth Century Wells, this book was years ahead of its time (pardon the pun) when it was first published; preceeding Einstein's theories of time travel by many years. It reads almost as a satire of Communism, a philosophy which has since failed around the world, and shows perhaps the type of creatures mankind may someday become. Read this book - it will transport you to a time of great promise, then show you with sadness that, because of human nature, paradise on earth is just not possible.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Best book in the English language, 15 Mar 2002
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This book is short, so even people who claim they don't like reading should be able to sit down and concentrate for long enough to finish this. It is also the best book I've ever read; I've read it four times to date and it never ceases to surprise me on re-readings.

Wells was writing at the back-end of the nineteenth century (reach for the dictionary) but the long words should not serve to put people who claim to be longwordaphobic off. The description is panoramic, the setting wonderful, and the story remains a timeless (puns alert) one that will continue, I'm sure, to enthrall readers for years to come, perhaps until the year 802701 (if we still have books then).

Buy it today, read it tomorrow, re-read it the day after. Great stuff.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A remarkable vision of the future, 9 Mar 2001
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A remarkably thought-provoking and intelligently written novel. Wells' attention to the seemingly trival issues (i.e. What happens if you stop the time machine in a solid structure?) is ideal for those pedantic readers amongst us.

There is very little in the plot and details, even in our own age, that can be reasonably argued with. An excellant read!.

HG Wells was a true visionary.

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5.0 out of 5 stars My First Encounter with H.G. Wells
"The Time Machine" was my very first encounter of H.G. Wells, and maybe that makes me slightly biased towards it in giving 5 stars. Read more
Published on 19 Sep 2004 by V. Thompsett

5.0 out of 5 stars There is no fourth dimension, only emptiness
In this short novel, this novella in fact, H.G. Wells enters frightening lands that are still quite up to date more than a century later. Read more
Published on 16 Oct 2003 by Jacques COULARDEAU

5.0 out of 5 stars A Timeless Classic
While I must have read literally hundreds of science fiction time travel novels indebted to The Time Machine, the original still stands up as a brilliant book in it’s own... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Masterful
A dinner party is set in an uproar, when the host, a brilliant inventor, unveils his latest invention, a time machine. Read more
Published on 4 Sep 2003 by Kurt A. Johnson

4.0 out of 5 stars Classic science fiction
Remarkably ahead of it's time.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Timeless Classic
It goes without saying that this book is a science fiction classic in every sense of the word and that H.G. Wells was a founding father of the genre. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Dawn Of The Science Fiction Age
This was the first scifi novel that I read at the tender age of ten, 22 years on I picked up the book again. Read more
Published on 6 Oct 2002 by Peter Davidson

4.0 out of 5 stars Better than the movie, a real classic
The Time Machine, a book about the journey of a man referred to as the Time Traveller, was an excellent book. Read more
Published on 14 Sep 2002 by Kristof Downer

5.0 out of 5 stars A fantastic edition of a science-fiction classic!
"The Time Machine" is a great tale, written by a master story-teller. (Indeed, it was the work which effectively launched Wells' long career as a writer and social commentator)... Read more
Published on 21 Jun 2002 by tjaxon

5.0 out of 5 stars I saw the movie first. The book difference was a surprise.
I grew up on the Rod Taylor /George Pal movie. When I started the book I expected it to be slightly different with a tad more complexity as with most book/movie relationships. Read more
Published on 18 Sep 2001 by bernie

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