The Time Machine (AmazonClassics Edition)

A scientist and gentleman inventor in industrialized Victorian England claims to have irrefutable proof that time is not simply a concept―it’s a whole other dimension. When he reveals the prototype of a time-traveling machine to his peers, he’s met with skepticism at first…until he returns one week later, disheveled, bloody, and with a fantastic story to tell.

A cornerstone of speculative science fiction, The Time Machine launched the time-traveling genre, influenced generations of writers, and is recognized as a prescient vision of twenty-first-century fears―those of an impending environmental nightmare and the irreversible fate of a dying planet.

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Revised edition: Previously published as The Time Machine, this edition of The Time Machine (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

Herbert George Wells (1866–1946) was born in Bromley, England, and became enamored with reading after a childhood incident left him bedridden with a broken leg. As an adult, he was a teacher, an artist, and a prolific writer, but he was undeniably best known for his groundbreaking work in science fiction.

The most notable of his many works include The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds. As a four-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, Wells is widely considered to be one of the fathers of science fiction.