# The Time Machine

**Author(s):** H. G. Wells
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**Genres:** literary-fiction, literary-classics, dystopian, time-travel-sf, sci-fi
**Pages:** 144
**Publisher:** Scholastic Paperbacks
**Published:** Wed Nov 13 2019 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780439436540
**ISBN-10:** 0439436540
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-time-machine

## Description

The Time Traveller, a dreamer obsessed with traveling through time, builds himself a time machine and, much to his surprise, travels over 800,000 years into the future. He lands in the year 802701: the world has been transformed by a society living in apparent harmony and bliss, but as the Traveler stays in the future he discovers a hidden barbaric and depraved subterranean class. Wells's transparent commentary on the capitalist society was an instant bestseller and launched the time-travel genre.

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**Themes:** Time Travel