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''[http://pd.sparknotes.com/lit/timemachine/ '''''The Time Machine]'''''] is a classic tale of [[Time Travel]], and one of the first to use a scientific mechanism to achieve it (Wells' own ''The Chronic Argonauts'' was years earlier). Where his predecessors had used [[All Just a Dream|visions]] to achieve the time travel, and only sent their protagonists [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]], [[H. G. Wells]] had his protagonist invent an actual time machine and travel into the far future.
 
The story begins in [[Victorian London]] with the nameless narrator talking to his equally nameless friends, among them the Time Traveler, who casually describes his invention, and gives the assembled friends a demonstration. The next week, the Time Traveler appears, much the worse for wear, saying he has been to the year AD 802,701.
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The link in the first sentence will provide you with an online version of this classic (now in the [[Public Domain]] just about [[Offer Void in Nebraska|everywhere but Europe]]). You can also download the full text at [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/35 Project Gutenberg].
 
For the ''[[Choose Your Own Adventure]]'' series, see ''[[Time Machine Series]]''.
 
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== The Book ==
* [[An Aesop]]: Don't exploit working class, or their descendants will eat your descendants (which reflects Wells' socialist views)
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