The Time Machine

H. G. Wells · 1895 · Science Fiction

A Victorian scientist builds a machine that carries him not through space but through time, and hurtles eight hundred thousand years into the future — to a world split in two. On the sunlit surface live the Eloi, a beautiful, gentle, idle people; below, in the dark of the machine-wells, dwell the pale, predatory Morlocks. Befriended by the little Eloi Weena, the Time Traveller must fathom what has become of humanity, recover his stolen machine, and glimpse the very death of the world beneath a dying red sun. H. G. Wells's 1895 masterpiece invented the time-travel story and remains its bleak, brilliant blueprint. Complete and richly illustrated.