The time machine

H. G. Wells

Original title: The Time Machine

earliest edition we have, 1898 Naxos Multimedia, 2010

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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 th...

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Clark Madison 1 printing we hold · 2016 · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Gabriela Guzman 1 printing we hold · 2017 · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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Time Machine edition · 2022 · Independently Published · 9798363235689
Time Machine edition · 2022 · Independently Published · 9798415556380
Time Machine edition · 2022 · Independently Published · 9798837459597
Time Machine edition · 2022 · Independently Published · 9798439185504
Time Machine edition · 2022 · Independently Published · 9798431423390
The Time Machine paperback · 2022 · Blurb · 94 pages · 9781034951476
Time Machine edition · 2022 · Independently Published · 9798828350056
Time Machine edition · 2022 · Independently Published · 9798829874698
Time Machine edition · 2022 · Independently Published · 9798419554924
Time Machine edition · 2022 · Independently Published · 9798839825284
Time Machine Annotated edition · 2021 · Independently Published · 122 pages · 9798513150268
Time Machine edition · 2021 · Independently Published · 123 pages · 9798736567775

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