The Time Machine
by H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells's 1895 novel that helped invent modern science fiction. A Victorian inventor builds a machine that carries him to the year 802,701, where humanity has split into two strange species, and then far beyond to the dying Earth.
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The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. His grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his usually pale face was flushed and animated. The fire burnt brightly, and the soft radiance of the incandescent lights in the lilies of silver caught the bubbles that flash…H. G. Wells, The Time MachineStart reading The Time Machine free →
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Short, fast and famous. The sentences are a little richer than a fairy tale, a good step up for confident B1 to B2 readers.
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