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The Time Machine

Herbert George Wells

The Time Machine

Paper book: €19.99

Digital: €7.99

Original publication
1895
Pages
255
Difficulty
Easy
Genres
Science Fiction
Moods
Imagine tomorrow, Be enchanted, Think it through
Translated from
English

Book summary

An English inventor explains to his friends that time is a dimension like any other, then sets off in a machine he has built himself. On his return, exhausted, he describes a very distant future in which the Eloi, a frail and carefree people, live among gardens, while other creatures hide underground.

It was with this book that time travel became a great subject for fiction. H. G. Wells imagines what would become of humanity if the gap between rich and poor kept widening for thousands of years.

Told like a story among friends, this short novel is easy to read in the language you are learning.

The plot

Lost in the future, without his machine. An English scientist has built a machine that travels through time. He arrives in the very distant future, in the middle of a vast garden, near a great white statue. He leaves…

The world of the book

The England of factories and scientists. By the late 19th century, England is covered in factories. The rich live in fine districts, while workers crowd into dark streets. Scientists are also discovering that living…

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