The Time Machine - Penguin English Library

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells'Great shapes like big machines rose out of the dimness, and cast grotesque black shadows, in which dim spectral Morlocks sheltered from the glare'Chilling, prophetic and hugely influential, The Time Machine sees a Victorian scientist propel himself into the year 802,701 AD, where he is delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty and contentment in the form of the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man. But he soon realizes that they are simply remnants of a once-great culture - now weak and living in terror of the sinister Morlocks lurking in the deep tunnels, who threaten his very return home. H. G. Wells defined much of modern science fiction with this 1895 tale of time travel, which questions humanity, society, and our place on Earth.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

ISBN:	9780141199344
Publisher:	Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:	Penguin Classics
Published date:	31 May 2012
DEWEY:	823.912
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	105
Weight:	100g
Height:	135mm
Width:	197mm
Spine width:	8mm

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