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The Time Machine

Herbert George Wells

The Time Machine

Paper book: €16.99

Digital: €4.99

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

マシンを失い、未来に取り残される。イギリスの科学者が、時間を旅する機械を作った。たどり着いたのは、はるか遠い未来。広大な庭園の真ん中、大きな白い像のそばだった。彼は機械をそこに置いて、あたりを探りに出る。夕方戻ってみると、機械は消えていた。あれがなければ、もう二度と家に帰れない。

The world of the book

工場と科学者の国イギリス。19世紀の終わり、イギリスは工場であふれている。金持ちは美しい街に住み、労働者は暗い路地にひしめき合う。科学者たちはまた、生物の種が何百万年もかけて変わることを発見する。この本は、はるか遠い未来に人間がどうなっているのかを問いかける。

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    Posted on 4 November 2026 · Read in English – Dutch

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