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The Time Machine

H. G. Wells

The Time Machine

Original publication
1895
Pages
195
Difficulty
★☆☆
Genres
Science Fiction
Translated from
English

Book summary

An inventor sets out a theory of time as a fourth dimension, then vanishes in a machine of his own making. He returns exhausted to describe the year 802,701, a world of gardens inhabited by a frail and idle people, the Eloi. Other creatures live below the surface, and he gradually understands what binds the two species together. The story explores evolution, the division of classes carried to its conclusion and the distant fate of humanity. Wells establishes time travel as a subject for fiction and an instrument of social criticism.

The plot

Lost in the future, without his machine. An English scientist has built a machine that travels through time. He arrives in the very distant future, in the middle of a vast garden, near a great white statue. He leaves…

The world of the book

The England of factories and scientists. By the late 19th century, England is covered in factories. The rich live in fine districts, while workers crowd into dark streets. Scientists are also discovering that living…

The author

H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946. The son of small shopkeepers, H. G. Wells first worked for a cloth merchant. At 18, a scholarship took him to a science school in London. There he attended the lectures of the biologist Thomas…

The benefits of the bilingual method with Line-by-line synced layout

Every line of the original has its translation directly beneath it, at the same height. You never lose your place: your eye drops one line and lands on exactly the sentence it just read. This is the layout that lets you open a book in a language you barely know without ever giving up, and compare the two texts almost word for word.

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