Book description
With a contemporary review by R. H. Hutton, from the Spectator.
'Great shapes like big machines rose out of the dimness, and cast
grotesque black shadows, in which dim spectral Morlocks sheltered
from the glare'
Chilling, prophetic and hugely influential, The Time Machine
sees a Victorian scientist propel himself into the year 802,701 AD,
where he is delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by
beauty and contentment in the form of the Eloi, an elfin species
descended from man. But he soon realizes that they are simply remnants
of a once-great culture - now weak and living in terror of the
sinister Morlocks lurking in the deep tunnels, who threaten his very
return home. H. G. Wells defined much of modern science fiction with
this 1895 tale of time travel, which questions humanity, society, and
our place on Earth.
The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in
English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the
beginning of the First World War.
In the space of less than four years, H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
published four of the most influential, original and hair-raising of
all works of science-fiction. In a life of tireless experiment,
travelling and intellectual engagement, Wells was both a leading
public figure and one of the great imaginers of the modern world.
Wells's other science-fiction classics The Island of Doctor
Moreau, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds
are also published in the Penguin English Library.
