(Original, Unabridged Classic, Premium Hardbound Collector's Edition, Ideal for Gifting)
H.G. Wells
"We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow."
A Victorian inventor climbs into a machine of his own construction, pulls a lever, and catapults himself eight hundred thousand years into the future — where he discovers a humanity divided into two species: the beautiful, helpless Eloi who live in crumbling palaces above ground, and the pale, subterranean Morlocks who feed and clothe them, and who feed on them in return. H.G. Wells published The Time Machine in 1895, and it immediately established him as the founding father of modern science fiction.
Beneath the adventure story lies a sharp social allegory: Wells was writing about class, exploitation, and the logical endpoint of a society divided between those who labour and those who consume. The Time Traveller's horror at what humanity has become is the horror of a man who has seen the present's trajectory carried to its conclusion. A short novel of enormous ambition that still reads with urgent pace.
This premium hardbound collector's edition with sprayed edges presents Wells's original, unabridged text — a perfect volume for collectors of science fiction and classic literature.
