The Time Machine

Published in 1895

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A plain brown cloth book cover stamped with the title and a winged sphinx
Cover of the first English edition (Heinemann, 1895)

On a Thursday evening in Richmond, a scientist known only as the Time Traveller shows his dinner guests a small model of a machine, and makes it vanish. A week later he stumbles in late, dusty and limping, and tells them where he has been: the year 802,701, where the gentle, childlike Eloi live in a garden world above ground, and something else lives below. H. G. Wells's first novel, published in 1895, gave the world the idea of a machine for travelling in time.