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The sciencefiction genre has a lot to attribute to H.G. Wells: his novel, The Time Machine, inspired by Swift’s classic tale, Gulliver’s Travels, is the first piece of literature to deal with the concept of time travel. Today, there are countless films, television shows, and of course, novels, whose origins are founded in this exciting piece of fiction. The Time Machine is the first of Wells’ four most famous sciencefiction novels. The story revolves around the Time Traveller, who has created a machine that allows him to visit and see what is to come in the future. A group of men watch him climb into the machine and seemingly disappear into thin air. One week later, they reconvene to hear the Time Traveller regale them with tales of his adventures through past ages and ages to come. He explains how he expected the future to provide a better world, but was instead confronted with a bleak reality. The future is shows no signs that progress was every made and seems devoid of hope. A great portion of the story takes place in a futuristic dystopian land filled with peaceful humanlike beings called Eloi. They live in constant fear of beastlike creatures called Morlocks. The Traveller makes further trips through time where he sees strange and horrifying sights. In The Time Machine, Wells makes blatant scientific and political critiques while he writes a riveting tale of science fiction. The Time Machine has been adapted into several films; a recent version stars Guy Pierce as the Time Traveller. First published in 1895, The Time Machine helped spur an important genre of literature. Title: The Time Machine Author: H.G. Wells ISBN: 9781775420163 Version: Unabridged Language: English Reader: Various Format: MP3 Audio CD Tracks / Chapters: 13 Chapters Total running time: 04:02:33

The Time Traveler thought he could take the lessons of the future home to the past, if only he could get home.…When the Time Traveler boldly stepped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the far future, in an almost unrecognizable world. In another, more utopian age, creatures seemed to live together free of strife and competition. The Time Traveler thought he could learn the secrets of these happy beings and take the lessons of life to his own time - until he discovered that his marvelous invention, his only means of escape, had been stolen.This novel is part of Brilliance Audio's extensive Classic Collection, bringing you timeless masterpieces that you and your family are sure to love.

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. His grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his usually pale face was flushed and animated. The fire burned brightly, and the soft radiance of the incandescent lights in the lilies of silver caught the bubbles that flashed and passed in our glasses. Our chairs, being his patents, embraced and caressed us rather than submitted to be sat upon, and there was that luxurious after-dinner atmosphere when thought roams gracefully free of the trammels of precision. And he put it to us in this way - marking the points with a lean forefinger - as we sat and lazily admired his earnestness over this new paradox (as we thought it:) and his fecundity. `You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception.

Wells touches gently on time travel as a notion, but mostly The Time Machine is about the terminal future he sees for mankind: His nameless time traveler ventures to the world that will be 802,701 A.D., And there he finds mankind divided among the Eloi and the Morlocks. The Eloi are a gentle, winsome, idle race, who do not labor; the Morlocks, in contrast, are a barbaric race -- who use the Eloi for food. It's a grim vision, and a gripping one. There's a reason that The Time Machine has become a classic.

The book's protagonist is an amateur inventor or scientist living in London who is never named; he is identified simply as The Time Traveller. Having demonstrated to friends using a miniature model that time is a fourth dimension, and that a suitable apparatus can move back and forth in this fourth dimension, he builds a full-scale model capable of carrying himself. He sets off on a journey into the future.Dystopian Classic Editions publishes works of dystopian literature that have survived through the generations and been recognized as classic works of literature. A dystopian society is an imagined society in which the people are oppressed, however the government propagandizes the society as being a utopia or a perfect society. Typical themes in dystopian literature include public mistrust, police states, and overall unpleasantness for the citizens. Authors of dystopian works strive to present a worst-case scenario and negative depiction of the way things are in the story so as to make a criticism about a current situation in society and to call for a change. Each Dystopian Classic Edition selected for publication presents such a story.

"I drew a breath, set my teeth, gripped the starting lever with both hands, and went off with a thud." The time traveler is on his way to a different world-his world 800,000 years in the future. He returns and recounts his journey to his friends at a dinner party. In the future, humans called the Eloi live in simple luxury. They have become beautiful, but meek, living on their safe comfortable planet. The generations that have passed without challenge or adversity have dulled their minds. Underground machinery, built millenniums ago, feeds and clothes these innocent creatures, and still functions perfectly. But who runs the machinery for these people, and why they are afraid of the night?

Wells' thrilling story of an inventor who travels in time and discovers a nightmarish dystopian future has been adapted several times for TV and film. This first ever UK radio adaptation, starring Robert Glenister as the Time Traveller and William Gaunt as H. G. Wells, brings Wells' fascinating ideas and extraordinary visions to vivid life. It opens in 1943, when Wells is recording a talk for the Home Service in which he questions mankind's future. After the broadcast, he spends the evening with American journalist Martha, and tells her the astonishing news that his bestselling book The Time Machine was not fantasy but fact. Wells explains that he was actually present at the dinner party in Richmond fifty years earlier, when the Time Traveller returned from his first fateful journey into the future. He reveals to Martha the full story of the Time Traveller's encounter with the Eloi and the Morlocks - and what really happened to him afterwards... This CD release also includes an introductory sleeve note recounting the making of the radio adaptation, writen by producer Jeremy Mortimer.2 CDs. 1 hr 40 mins.

Written in 1895 the Time Machine is an early example of time travel. The Traveler uses his machine to visit many different eras. In 802,701 A.D he discovers a communistic community that is quite peaceful. The Eloi had no conflict and because of that there was no need for improvements thus their culture was stagnating. The Traveler discovers that under the surface things are not as they seem.