The Time Machine, H. G. Wells
The Time Machine, H. G. Wells
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The Time Machine

Author: H. G. Wells

Narrator: Doug Myers

Unabridged: 3 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/20/2014

Synopsis

Originally published in 1895, H. G. Wells' unequivocally visionary tale popularized the concept of time travel. Set in Victorian England, it tells the story of a scientist and gentleman inventor who builds a machine capable of transporting a person through time, which he calls the fourth dimension. Propelling himself to the year 802,701, the man is delighted by what he finds: the Eloi, an elfin race who seem to have replaced the toil and suffering of the world with beauty and contentment. But not all is well in the world of the Eloi. What remains of this once-great culture now lives in fear of the terrifying Morlocks, an underground race who threaten the time traveler's return home.H. G. Wells was a pioneer of the science fiction genre. This hugely influential novel, which questions our place on Earth, weaves in his ideas of sociology and the social impact of industrialization.

About H. G. Wells

Herbert George Wells (1866–1946) was born in Bromley, England, to a working class family. His first novel, The Time Machine, was an instant success and Wells produced a series of science fiction novels which pioneered ideas about the future. His later work focused on satire and social criticism. Wells forecasted the rise of major cities and suburbs, economic globalization, and aspects of future military conflicts.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill

Returning to a novel you liked years ago is often a risky business, particularly so when the genre of that novel is science fiction. Nothing can age so rapidly as the past’s conception of the future, and what once seemed cutting edge may, after fifty years or more, appear simply ludicrous. Because of......more

Goodreads review by Leonard

The Time Machine is not primarily a novel about time travel, time travel paradoxes and so forth. It is chiefly a speculation on the far future of humanity and, closer to home, about class conflict and the evolution of the industrial civilisation. It starts as an almost casual chat by the fireside abo......more

Goodreads review by J.L.

Surely an oversight that I hadn't read H.G. Wells' The Time Machine before now. By all accounts, this is the original time travel story. Still, social class and how technical innovations change humanity are more central to the story than whether the narrator was actually able to travel to 802,701 AD......more

Goodreads review by Nayra.Hassan

عن غروب البشرية نتحدث عن البشر عندما صار طولهم 140سم وجوههم ناعمة..لافرق بين النساءوالرجال أصبح الجميع أقرب الأطفال شكلا و موضوعا كسالي غارقون في الراحةو لا يخافون سوى الظلام اندثرت البيوت و انتهى نظام الاسرة الجميع يعيشون في مباني ضخمة لا يوجد تعليم او تجارة او منافسة او حروب اذن فهي الجنة ..لا بل هي أقرب......more

Quotes

“The savage brilliance of the young H. G. Wells—and the greatest science fiction novel ever written.”

“Every time-travel story since The Time Machine is fundamentally indebted to Wells.”

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