The Time MachineH. G. Wells' The Time Machine, from 1895, popularized the idea of a vehicle that allows its user to travel intentionally and selectively across time, and indeed Wells is credited with coining the very term "time machine." The Time Traveler of this novella tests his time machine with a leap forward to the year 802,701 A.D., to find that evolution has produced two very different post-human races - the peaceful and childlike fruit-eating Eloi and the Morlocks - pale, darkness-dwelling troglodites who operate the underground machinery that makes this seeming paradise possible. |
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... saw him next. And the whole tableful turned towards the door. He was in an amazing plight. His coat was dusty and dirty, and smeared with green down the sleeves, his hair disordered, and as it seemed to me greyer—either with dust 23.
... saw him next. And the whole tableful turned towards the door. He was in an amazing plight. His coat was dusty and dirty, and smeared with green down the sleeves, his hair disordered, and as it seemed to me greyer—either with dust 23.
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... green; they grew, spread, shivered, and passed away. I saw huge buildings rise up faint and fair, and pass like dreams. The whole surface of the earth seemed changed—melting and flowing under my eyes. The little hands upon 32.
... green; they grew, spread, shivered, and passed away. I saw huge buildings rise up faint and fair, and pass like dreams. The whole surface of the earth seemed changed—melting and flowing under my eyes. The little hands upon 32.
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... green of spring. 'The unpleasant sensations of the start were less poignant now. They merged at last into a kind of hysterical exhilaration. I remarked indeed a clumsy swaying of the machine, for which I was unable to account. But my ...
... green of spring. 'The unpleasant sensations of the start were less poignant now. They merged at last into a kind of hysterical exhilaration. I remarked indeed a clumsy swaying of the machine, for which I was unable to account. But my ...
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animal bars beautiful began breathing bright bronze bushes camphor clambering creatures crematoria crowbar cupola darkness dimensions door dust earth Editor Eloi eyes face faint fancied fear feeling feet fell felt Filby fire flame flaring flashed flickering floor flowers Fourth Dimension future gallery glare gone Green Porcelain grew hand head heaps heard hesitated hill huge human incontinently laboratory lamp laughed Lemur lever lichen light little lawn little Weena looked round machine match Medical mind minute moon Morlocks move night once Palace of Green pedestal perhaps pocket presently Psychologist quartz queer reflection rhododendron ruins seemed shadow shaft silent sleep slope slower smiled soft space stared stars stood stopped strange struck suddenly tell thick thing thought took Traveller tried turned Upper-world vanished verdigris watch White Sphinx wood