‘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 802, 701— 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.
‘The Time Traveller’ conveys the Time Traveller into the distant future and an extraordinary world. There, stranded on a slowly dying Earth, he discovers two bizarre races—the effete Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks—a haunting portrayal of Darwin’s evolutionary theory carried to a terrible conclusion.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
HG Wells (Herbert George, 1866) was born to a working class family in Kent, England. Young Wells received a spotty education, interrupted by several illnesses and family difficulties, and became a draper’s apprentice as a teenager. The headmaster of Midhurst Grammar School, where he had spent a year, arranged for him to return as an ‘usher’, or student teacher. Wells earned a government scholarship in 1884, to study biology under Thomas Henry Huxley at the Normal School of Science. Wells earned his bachelor of science and doctor of science degrees at the University of London. After marrying his cousin, Isabel, Wells began to supplement his teaching salary with short stories and freelance articles, then books, including ‘The Time Machine’ (1895), ‘The Island of Dr. Moreau’ (1896), ‘The Invisible Man’ (1897), and ‘The War of the Worlds’ (1898).
Wells created a mild scandal when he divorced his cousin to marry one of his best students, Amy Catherine Robbins. Although his second marriage was lasting and produced two sons. His 100 books included many novels, as well as non-fiction, such as ‘A Modern Utopia’ (1905), ‘The Outline of History’ (1920), ‘A Short History of the World’ (1922), ‘The Shape of Things to Come’ (1933), and ‘The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind’ (1932). Wells used his international fame to promote his favorite causes, including the prevention of war, and was received by government officials around the world. He is best-remembered as an early writer of science fiction and futurism.
