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The Time Machine

Forward to the year 802,701, and then much further.

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A traveler journeys into the distant future and encounters the Eloi and Morlocks. Wells uses the adventure to explore social division, change, and humanity's possible fate.

H By H.G. Wells

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The Time Traveller demonstrates a model to his dinner guests, then returns a week later with an account of the year 802,701, where the gentle Eloi live above ground and the Morlocks work beneath it. He goes on to the beach at the end of the world.

Wells’s 1895 debut invented time travel as we now use it and turned the Victorian class divide into biology. The final chapters, on a dying Earth under a swollen sun, are some of the bleakest and best things he wrote.

1. How Wells turns the Victorian class divide into two separate species, and what the image argues.
2. Why the Eloi’s comfort is presented as a decline rather than an achievement.
3. How the novel established the conventions of time travel that fiction still uses.
4. What the Time Traveller gets wrong in his first reading of the future, and how he corrects it.
5. Why the far-future beach chapter matters as much as the main narrative.
6. How the frame narrative leaves the truth of the account deliberately open.

Book details

Author

H.G. Wells

Publisher

Lexicon Publishing

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Additional information

SKU

TL-RSZR36NR

Category

Fiction