144 pages
English language
Published by Scholastic Paperbacks, Scholastic.
The Time Traveller, a dreamer obsessed with traveling through time, builds himself a time machine and, much to his surprise, travels over 800,000 years into the future. He lands in the year 802701: the world has been transformed by a society living in apparent harmony and bliss, but as the Traveler stays in the future he discovers a hidden barbaric and depraved subterranean class. Wells's transparent commentary on the capitalist society was an instant bestseller and launched the time-travel genre.
The Time Traveller, a dreamer obsessed with traveling through time, builds himself a time machine and, much to his surprise, travels over 800,000 years into the future. He lands in the year 802701: the world has been transformed by a society living in apparent harmony and bliss, but as the Traveler stays in the future he discovers a hidden barbaric and depraved subterranean class. Wells's transparent commentary on the capitalist society was an instant bestseller and launched the time-travel genre.
This is my first time reading H. G. Wells, and I'm very surprised by how modern some of the themes are. It's almost like I can trace a direct lineage between a 130-year-old book and The Backrooms.
This is my first time reading H. G. Wells, and I'm very surprised by how modern some of the themes are. It's almost like I can trace a direct lineage between a 130-year-old book and The Backrooms.
