The Time Machine

By: Wells, H. G.

The book's protagonist is an amateur inventor or scientist living in London who is never named; he is identified simply as The Time Traveller. Having demonstrated to friends using a miniature model that time is a fourth dimension, and that a suitable apparatus can move back and forth in this fourth dimension, he builds a full-scale model capable of carrying himself. He sets off on a journey into the future.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1727873548
• ISBN13: 9781727873542
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

I saw the movie first. The difference from the book was a surprise.

An unnamed time traveler sees the future of man (802,701 A.D.) and then the inevitable future of the world. He tells his tale in detail. Some of the details are fascinating as the traveler comes to discover the secret of the results of social stratification over centuries, which eventually creates two separate species of humans. Which species is more human? Can anything be done to prevent or correct this? I grew up on the Rod Taylor /George Pal movie. When I started the book, I expected it to be slightly different, with a tad more complexity than with most book/movie relationships. I was surprised to find the reason for the breakup of the species (Morlock and Eloi) was class Vs. atomic (in later movie versions it was political). I could live with that, but to find that some little pink thing replaced Yvette Mimieux was too much. After all the surprises, we can look at the story as unique in its time, first published in book form in 1895, yet the message is timeless. The writing and timing could not have been better. And the ending was certainly appropriate for the world that he describes. If the story were written today, the species division would be based on eugenics.