...The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 for the first time and later adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic boo...

...takes place in a future where mankind, seemingly no longer able to survive on earth's surface, exists in a vast underground civilization known as The Machine. Each individual lives in an isolated, fully-automated cell-like room, connected to global information and communication systems, but cut off from all direct experience. The narrative focuses on Vashti, an advanced mo...

... H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Time Machine by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Class... ...State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 H G Wells The Time Machine by H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells 1898 1898 1898 1898 1898 I I I I I THE ... ...id Filby. ‘Of course a solid body may exist. All real things—’ 4 The Time Machine ‘So most people think. But wait a moment. Can an instan- taneous cu... ...own,’ said the Medical Man. ‘Easier, far easier down than up.’ 6 The Time Machine ‘ And you cannot move at all in Time, you cannot get away from the ... ...h fell upon the model. There were also perhaps a dozen candles 8 The Time Machine about, two in brass candlesticks upon the mantel and several in sco... ... hands together above the apparatus, ‘is only a model. It is my plan for a machine to travel through time. You will notice that it looks singu- larly ... ...t you clearly to understand that this lever, being pressed over, sends the machine gliding into the future, and this other reverses the motion. This s... ... of a time traveller. Presently I am going to press the lever, and off the machine will go. It will vanish, pass into future Time, and disappear. Have...

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...sued, judgments signed, declara tions filed, and numerous other ingenious machines put in motion for the torture and torment of His Majesty’s liege s... ...nto sassages as easy as if it was a tender young babby. Wery proud o’ that machine he was, as it was nat’ral he should be, and he’ d stand down in the... ...olet; and yet it had something of the character of each and every of these machines. It was painted a bright yellow, with the shafts and wheels picked... ..., pack’d up and all, by this time.’ What sort of cumbrous and unmanageable machine, Sam Weller imagined a habeas corpus to be, does not appear; for Pe... ...asement windows in the attic storeys, and the whirl of wheels and noise of machinery shook the trembling walls. The fires, whose lurid, sullen light h...

...They were retiring again, holding the enemy back. He was in the rear—three machine-guns. The country was all pleas- ant, war had not yet trampled it. ... ... seemed to touch right upon the soul. He kept up the rapid activity at the machine-gun, sweating. But in his soul was the echo of the new, deep sound,... ...ly at their ease. They pounce on the youths who try to evade their ticket- machine. They push off the men at the end of their distance. They are not g... ...during these performances pitch darkness falls from time to time, when the machine goes wrong. Then there is a wild whooping, and a loud smacking of s... ... with chaff, more like,’ she retorted. ‘It’s as bad as feeding a threshing machine, to have to listen to some folks.’ ‘ As bad as what?’ said Albert. ... ...sessed young man walked in with his kit-bag, and put his cap on the sewing machine. He was little and self- confident, with a curious neatness about h...

...aped and pasted, their tongues kept up such an accompaniment to the sewing-machine that Charity’s silence sheltered itself un- perceived under their c...

...stand the reasons that led a man who had become the pivot of the financial machine of Limoges to repulse the various propositions of marriage which pa...

... ery day take new pains to make them both familiar, will be, I may hope, a machine in such working order as that they can keep it going. I know I need...

... tion, he was aston-ished beyond measure at such persistency. They must be machines of steel. It was very gloomy struggling against such affairs, woun... ...attery addressed them. The youth pitied them as he ran. Methodical idiots! Machine-like fools! The refined joy of planting shells in the midst of the ... ...s forward way. The battle was like the grinding of an immense and terrible machine to him. Its com-plexities and powers, its grim processes, fasci- na... ... this crowd and marched along with it. The torn bodies expressed the awful machinery in which the men had been entangled. Orderlies and couriers occas... ...ch a possibility. His education had been that success for that mighty blue machine was certain; that it would make victories as a contrivance turns ou... ...r torrent was choked with the bodies of horses and splintered parts of war machines. It had come to pass that his wound pained him but little. He was ... ...Its foliages now seemed to veil powers and hor-rors. He was unaware of the machinery of orders that started the charge, although from the cor-ners of ... ...h other in all manner of hoarse, howling pro-tests. But the regiment was a machine run down. The two men babbled at a forceless thing. The soldiers wh... ...a din fitted to the universe. It was the whirring and thumping of gigantic machinery, complica-tions among the smaller stars. The youth’s ears were fi...

...n excellent hotel—capital baths, warm, cold, and shower—first rate bathing machines—and as good butchers, bakers, and grocers, as heart could desire. ... ...town to the beach and back again; you have a clean and comfortable bathing machine, dress, linen, and all appliances; and the charge for the whole is ... ...f weariness for their money; and we have also an association of individual machine proprietors combined against this formidable rival. M. Feroce, our ... ...g the English language), on the wooden 45 Charles Dickens horses of which machine grown up people of all ages are wound round and round with the utmo... ...snuffle (and no wonder!) deep down under the pink hood of a little bathing machine, and can never peruse even so much of his lineaments as his nose? W... ... high, I saw the proprietor in bed in the shower bath. As to the bath ing machines, they were (how they got there, is not for me to say) at the top o... ...WHEN D ON D IEGO De—I forget his name—the inventor of the last new Flying Machines, price so many francs for la dies, so many more for gentlemen—whe... ...less knives, clogged and sticky, but persistent—and is pressed out of that machine through a square trough, whose form it takes— and is cut off in squ... ...rking clothes, all splashed with white,— where it passes through no end of machinery moved sieves all splashed with white, arranged in an ascending sc...

...ll have a glance at the manufacturing district some day. You shall see the machines they work with. Y ou shall see the miserable lank-jawed half-stewe... ...slept here in my room above, where I don’t often sleep, for the row of the machinery—it ‘s like a steamer that won’t go, though it’s always starting y... ... a working member of Parliament, is occasionally reminded that this mortal machine cannot adapt itself in perpetuity to the long hours of labour by ni... ...ough the Psalms. There was a creak at intervals, leading him to think it a machine that might have run away with the winder’s arm. The earl’s humour p... ...aptain Beauchamp quotes you too. It seems that you once talked to him of a machine for measuring the force of blows delivered with the fist, and compa...

...as Hela, has died out into the clanking of a World-MA- CHINE. “T ree” and “Machine:” contrast these two things. I, for my share, declare the world to ... ...e:” contrast these two things. I, for my share, declare the world to be no machine! I say that it does not go by wheel-and-pinion “motives” self-inter... ...jennies, and parliamentary majorities; and, on the whole, that it is not a machine at all!—The old Norse Heathen had a truer motion of God’s-world tha... ...l!—The old Norse Heathen had a truer motion of God’s-world than these poor Machine-Sceptics: the old Heathen Norse were sincere men. But for these poo... ...g-down of cant; a saying to oneself: “Well then, this world is a dead iron machine, the god of it Gravitation and selfish Hunger; let us see what, by ... ...lot- box, parliamentary eloquence, voting, constitution-building, or other machinery whatsoever can improve it a whit. It is in the perfect state; an ... ...sh, that Great Men could again appear in the world! Nature, turned into a “Machine,” was as if effete now; could not any longer produce Great Men:—I c...

...t I have been more touched than I can say by your grief. That is a wonderful machine, but it is cruelly true. It told me, in its very tones, the angui...

... beats—Might a common man make so bold as to inquire where the whit- ening machine is, Miss?” This was addressed to Jane, who had come up with some of... ...luable than the raw cotton, because the manufacture costs wear and tear of machinery, wear and tear of the factory, rent of the ground upon which the ... ... were willing to labor in this way, but they had no factory to work in, no machinery to work with, and no raw cotton to work on, simply because all th... ...to recoup him for what he sup- plied them with: rent, shelter, gas, water, machinery, raw 64 An Unsocial Socialist cotton—everything, and to pay him ... ...y gave for nothing to my father was large. He bought more cotton, and more machinery, and more factories with it; employed more men to make wealth for... ...red pounds, in spite, he said, of his own great losses. Then he bought new machines; and, as women and children could work these as well as men, and w... ... the sources and instruments of production—of land on the one side, and of machinery on the other? This very ground on which we are resting was the pr... ... Artists don’t keep factories.” “No; but the factory is only a part of the machinery of the system. Its basis is the tyranny of brain force, which, am... ...es further in a day than I can carry myself alone. Such are the marvels of machinery. But I know that we cut a very poor figure beside you and that ma...

... in vain, convinced him either that this universe was one grim, piti- less machine, grinding down humanity by mere law of ne- cessity, or if they woul...

...erican humorist and writer Mark Twain. The work is a very early example of time travel in literature, anticipating by six years H. G. Wells' The Time Machine of 1895 (however, unlike Wells, Twain does not give any real explanation of his protagonist's traveling in time). Some early editions are entitled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur....

...in my house when a workman could not readily be got, and to construct little machines for my experiments, while the intention of mak ing the experime... ...hlet, and working it up into his own, and mak ing some small changes in the machine, which rather hurt its operation, got a patent for it there, and ... ...g. He procur’d an elegant apparatus for the purpose, in which all the little machines that I had roughly made for myself were nicely form’d by instrum...

...nd flying far beyond folly, have dared to resuscitate the theory of animal machines. The “dog’s instinct” and the “automaton-dog,” in this age of psy-... ... science, sound like strange anachronisms. An automaton he certainly is; a machine working independently of his control, the heart, like the mill-whee...

...t true-blue. But that's because he is developing his tank in secret, and they don't know he's concentrating on winning the war the American way, with machines. The second problem is that the German spies have penetrated the secret of what is being built in the high-security shop on the Swift property. And they will stop at nothing to steal its design - not kidnapping Tom, ...

...1. A New and Present Life 2. The Sacred Marriage 3. The Retrieval of Meaning 4. The Ghost in the Machine 5. The Disease of Translation 6. Another Voice...