title: The Time Machine (Oxford World's Classics)
author:  H. G. Wells 
description: <br><strong>Roger Luckhurst</strong> has written widely on Victorian popular fiction, science fiction and Gothic literature. He has edited Stevenson's <em>Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde</em>, Stoker's <em>Dracula</em>, and an anthology of <em>Late Victorian Gothic Tales</em> for Oxford World's Classics, and an edition of H. P. Lovecraft's <em>Classic Horror Stories</em>. His books include <em>The Mummy's Curse: The True History of a Dark Fantasy</em> (Oxford, 2012).<br>
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  Title: The Time Machine
  
  
  
  
  
  Author: H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
  
  
  
  
  
  Release Date: October 2, 2004 [EBook #35]
  
  
  [Last updated: August 21, 2011]
  
  
  
  
  
  Language: English
  
  
  
  
  
  *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TIME MACHINE ***
  
  
  
  
  
  The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells [1898]
  
  
  
  
  
  ### I
  
  
  
  
  
  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 burned brightly, and the soft radiance of the incandescent
  
  
  lights in the lilies of silver caught the bubbles that flashed and
  
  
  passed in our glasses. Our ch