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The Time Machine

by Herbert George Wells

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Herbert Wells was the pioneer of science fiction genre (later known as scientific romances). In The Time Machine which was published in 1895 he for the first time comes up with an idea of time travelling with a machine. Wells wrote plenty of novels where he was talking about current tendencies, contemporary problem and perspectives of humanity. Seems that Wells believes in progress and technology but fears that humanity and moral rules are being forgotten. Morality is one of the central issues in the story. What Wells is really worries about is the huge gap between elite and the most of people. With the help of time machine the author tries to predict how this problem would develop in future 800,000 years later.

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...handand his watch in the other. I looked round for the Time Traveller, and--'It's half-past seven now, ' said the Medical Man. 'I supposewe'd better have dinner?''Where's----?' said I, naming our host. 'You've just come? It's rather odd. He's unavoidably detained. Heasks me in this note to lead off with dinner at seven if he's notback. Says he'll explain when he comes. ''It seems a pity to let the dinner spoil, ' said the Editor of awell-known daily paper; and thereupon the Doctor rang the bell. The Psychologist was the only person besides the Doctor and myselfwho had attended the previous dinner. The other men were Blank, theEditor aforementioned, a certain journalist, and another--a quiet, shy man with a beard--whom I didn't know, and who, as far as myobservation went, never opened his mouth all the evening. There wassome speculation at the dinner-table about the Time Traveller'sabsence, and I suggested time travelling, in a half-jocular spirit. The Editor wanted that explained to...