Late in the nineteenth century, a Victorian scientist shows his disbelieving dinner guests a device he claims is a Time Machine. Respectable London scarcely has the imagination to cope with such an idea. But a week later they reconvene to find their friend ragged, exhausted and garrulous. The tale he tells is of the year 802,701, of life as it is lived in exactly the same spot, in what once had been London. He has visited the future of the human race and encountered beings thar are elfin, beautiful, vegetarian, and leading a life of splendid idleness. But this is not the only lifeform that exists in Eden - for in the tunnels beneath paradise lurks man's darker side.
Beschreibung (Langtext)
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 beings unearth 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 s famous novel of one man s astonishing journey beyond the conventional limits of the imagination first appeared in 1895. It won him immediate recognition and has been regarded ever since as one of the great masterpieces in the literature of science fiction.
Altersempfehlung: ab 14 Jahren.
Serie / Reihe: A Bantam classic
Personen: Wells, Herbert G
Wells, Herbert G:
The time machine / by H. G. Wells. - 10. [impr.]. - New York [u.a.] : Bantam Books, 2001. - 115 S ; 18 cm. - (A Bantam classic)
ISBN 978-0-553-21351-5 kt. : 6,90 EUR
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