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H. G. Wells: The time machine (2009, W.W. Norton)

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English language

Published Aug. 14, 2009 by W.W. Norton.

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978-0-393-92794-8
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The Time Traveller, a dreamer obsessed with traveling through time, builds himself a time machine and, much to his surprise, travels over 800,000 years into the future. He lands in the year 802701: the world has been transformed by a society living in apparent harmony and bliss, but as the Traveler stays in the future he discovers a hidden barbaric and depraved subterranean class. Wells's transparent commentary on the capitalist society was an instant bestseller and launched the time-travel genre.

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  • Wells, H. G. -- 1866-1946
  • Time travel -- Fiction