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H. G. Wells

The Time Machine

Science Fiction and Fantasy

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Language
English
First published
1895
Reading time
141 minutes
Chapters
17 chapters

About this book

An inventor tells his dinner guests that time is only another direction to travel in, and then he disappears into the far future.

The Time Machine is short, fast and strange: a story of a machine, a lonely traveller and a world where humanity has split in two. It shaped almost every time-travel story that followed. Read it if you like big ideas told in a small number of pages.

The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. His grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his usually pale face was flushed and animated. The fire burnt brightly, and the soft radiance of the incandescent…

I. Introduction

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Chapters

17 chapters
  1. I. Introduction8 min
  2. II. The Machine6 min
  3. III. The Time Traveller Returns9 min
  4. IV. Time Travelling10 min
  5. V. In the Golden Age8 min
  6. VI. The Sunset of Mankind10 min
  7. VII. A Sudden Shock11 min
  8. VIII. Explanation19 min
  9. IX. The Morlocks10 min
  10. X. When Night Came11 min
  11. XI. The Palace of Green Porcelain11 min
  12. XII. In the Darkness12 min
  13. XIII. The Trap of the White Sphinx5 min
  14. XIV. The Further Vision9 min
  15. XV. The Time Traveller’s Return3 min
  16. XVI. After the Story7 min
  17. Epilogue2 min

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