When the Time Traveller courageously stepped out of his machine.for the first time, he found himself in the year 802.700-and everything had changed. In this unfamiliar, utopian age creatures seemed to dwell together in perfect harmony. The Time Traveller thought he could study these marvelous beingsiunearth their secret and then return to his own time--until he discovered that his invention, his only avenue of escape, had been stolen.

H. G. WELLS was a scientific visionary and social prophet. One of the most widely read British writers of his generation, he explored the new territory of science fiction and crusaded for a new social order in more than forty-four novels and social and historical books.

Scrawny and tubercular, Wells was born to domestic servants turned shopkeepers in Kent on September 21,1866. In his late twenties a close brush with death led him to break away from a lifeless marriage to his cousin and to quit his uninspiring teaching position. He became determined to fulfill his dreams of authorship and of finding a perfect relationship with a woman. His childhood fascination with science found expression in The Time Machine (1895), the first of several enormously popular novels of scientific mythmaking, including The Invisible Man (1897) and The War of the Worlds (1898).

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12