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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... round at us. Then, still smiling faintly, and with his hands deep in his trousers pockets, he walked slowly out of the room, and we heard his slippers shuffling down the long passage to his laboratory. The Psychologist looked at us. 'I ...
... round at us. Then, still smiling faintly, and with his hands deep in his trousers pockets, he walked slowly out of the room, and we heard his slippers shuffling down the long passage to his laboratory. The Psychologist looked at us. 'I ...
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... round, became indistinct, was seen as a ghost for a second perhaps, as an eddy of faintly glittering brass and ivory; and it was gone —vanished! Save for the lamp the table was bare. Everyone was silent for a minute. Then Filby said he ...
... round, became indistinct, was seen as a ghost for a second perhaps, as an eddy of faintly glittering brass and ivory; and it was gone —vanished! Save for the lamp the table was bare. Everyone was silent for a minute. Then Filby said he ...
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... round him, you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness. Had Filby shown the model and explained the matter in the Time Traveller's words, we should have shown him far less scepticism ...
... round him, you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness. Had Filby shown the model and explained the matter in the Time Traveller's words, we should have shown him far less scepticism ...
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... round for the Time Traveller, and—'It's half-past seven now,' said the Medical Man. 'I suppose we'd better have dinner?' 'Where's—-?' said I, naming our host. 'You've just come? It's rather odd. He's unavoidably detained. He asks me in ...
... round for the Time Traveller, and—'It's half-past seven now,' said the Medical Man. 'I suppose we'd better have dinner?' 'Where's—-?' said I, naming our host. 'You've just come? It's rather odd. He's unavoidably detained. He asks me in ...
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... round the table, and the ghost of his old smile flickered across his face. 'What on earth have you been up to, man?' said the Doctor. The Time Traveller did not seem to hear. 'Don't let me disturb you,' he said, with a certain faltering ...
... round the table, and the ghost of his old smile flickered across his face. 'What on earth have you been up to, man?' said the Doctor. The Time Traveller did not seem to hear. 'Don't let me disturb you,' he said, with a certain faltering ...
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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