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H. G. Wells

The Time Machine

Travel into imagined futures that unsettle familiar assumptions about progress, class, knowledge, and the survival of human feeling.

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Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. The Machine
  3. The Time Traveller Returns
  4. Time Travelling
  5. In the Golden Age
  6. The Sunset of Mankind
  7. A Sudden Shock
  8. Explanation
  9. The Morlocks
  10. When Night Came
  11. The Palace of Green Porcelain
  12. In the Darkness
  13. The Trap of the White Sphinx
  14. The Further Vision
  15. The Time Traveller's Return
  16. After the Story
  17. Epilogue

About this text

H. G. Wells. Digital source: Project Gutenberg, ebook 35. This reading text follows the edition used in our interactive reader.

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