The Penguin English Library Edition of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells 'Great shapes like big machines rose out of the dimness, and cast grotesque black shadows, in which dim spectral Morlocks sheltered from the glare' Chilling, prophetic and 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sees a Victorian scientist propel himself into the year 802,701 AD, where he is delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty and contentment in the form of the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man.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 and 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, and our place on Earth. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
WELLS H.G.
Herbert George Wells nació el 21 de septiembre de 1866 en Bromley, Kent, Reino Unido, y murió el 13 de agosto de 1946 en Londres. Hijo de Joseph Wells y Sarah Neal, un accidente infantil que lo dejó convaleciente despertó su pasión por la lectura. Estudió biología en la Normal School of Science bajo la influencia de Thomas Huxley. Tras trabajar como maestro y periodista, se dedicó a la escritura y publicó más de ochenta libros. Es considerado uno de los padres de la ciencia ficción con obras como La máquina del tiempo, El hombre invisible y La guerra de los mundos.
