The Time Machine

H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

Original en 32360 words First published 1895 United Kingdom

H. G. Wells's 1895 novella that invented time travel as we know it — the phrase, and the machine, are his. A Victorian scientist demonstrates a machine that travels through time, then voyages to the year 802,701, where he finds the gentle Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks — the human species divided into lords and food — and beyond that, the death of the earth itself. A dazzling idea wrapped around a sharp social fable about class in industrial England, and the founding text of science fiction's most enduring device.

Text sourced from Project Gutenberg (public domain in the United States); the Project Gutenberg trademark and license text have been removed on import. Public-domain status determined by the author's death year + 50 years rule.

The Time Machine

Table of Contents