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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

困在未來,機器不翼而飛。一位英國科學家造出了一部能穿越時間的機器。他來到極其遙遠的未來,置身於一座巨大的花園中,旁邊是一尊高大的白色雕像。他把機器留在那裡,獨自去探索。傍晚回來時,機器竟然不見了。沒有它,他就再也回不了家。

The world of the book

工廠與科學家的英國。19世紀末,英國遍地是工廠。富人住在漂亮的街區,工人則擠在陰暗的街巷裡。科學家們還發現,物種會在數百萬年間不斷變化。這本書思考的是:在極其遙遠的未來,人類將變成什麼樣。

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    Posted on 4 November 2026 · Read in English – Dutch

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