This is the Penguin English Library Edition" of " The Time Machine" by H. G. Wells. ' Great shapes like big machines rose out of the dimness & cast grotesque black shadows in which dim spectral Morlocks sheltered from the glare'. Chilling prophetic & hugely influential " The Time Machine" sees a Victorian scientist propel himself into the year 802 701 AD where he is delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty & contentment in the form of the Eloi an elfin species descended from man. But he soon realizes that they are simply remnants of a once-great culture
- now weak & living in terror of the sinister Morlocks lurking in the deep tunnels who threaten his very return home. H. G. Wells defined much of modern science fiction with this 1895 tale of time travel which questions humanity society & our place on Earth. " The Penguin English Library" contains 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century & the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War."