The Time Machine
The book that invented the time machine as a machine. Ends 30 million years out, on a dying beach.
- Listening time
- about 3 h 30 min
- Length
- 32,288 words
- First published
- 1895
- Public domain
- the author died in 1946
- Edition
- Edition and cover by Standard Ebooks, released CC0
- Download in the app
- 181 KB stored on your device
- Language
- English
- Shelf
- Under Four Hours
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How it begins.
The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. His grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his usually pale face was flushed and animated. The fire burned brightly, and the soft radiance of the incandescent lights in the lilies of silver caught the bubbles that flashed and passed in our glasses. Our chairs, being his patents, embraced and caressed us rather than submitted to be sat upon, and there was that luxurious after-dinner atmosphere when thought roams gracefully free of the trammels of precision.
The Time Machine · H. G. Wells · 1895
- EmmaStandardBritish · female · the free engine0:28
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Also by H. G. Wells
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