The Time Machine
by H. G. Wells
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The Time Traveller, a dreamer obsessed with traveling through time, builds himself a time machine and, much to his surprise, travels over 800,000 years into the future. He lands in the year 802701: the world has been transformed by a society living in apparent harmony and bliss, but as the Traveler stays in the future he discovers a hidden barbaric and depraved subterranean class. Wells's transparent commentary on the capitalist society was an instant bestseller and launched the time-travel genre.
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Bibliographic source: Open Library- Who wrote The Time Machine?
The Time Machine is by H. G. Wells. The catalogue records its first publication in 1895. A later edition may have a different publication date on its copyright page.
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The catalogue records 120 pages for a representative edition. Pagination varies with the publisher, format, type size and translation, so check the edition you intend to read.
