English language
Published May 1, 2009 by W.W. Norton.
The time machine
an invention authoritative text backgrounds and contexts criticism (A Norton Critical Edition)
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.
Subjects
- Wells, H. G. -- 1866-1946
- Time travel -- Fiction