The Time Machine: H.G. Wells (Penguin Archive)

The Time Machine is the great, gleeful anarchist novel of the 1890s. It is both:

• A thrilling adventure story, and
• A satire on religion, evolution, and human hopes.

With this book, Wells invented an entirely new genre—and did it better than any of his imitators.

An immediate bestseller, it has:

• Delighted and unnerved generations of readers, and
• Will no doubt keep on doing so until some of the events predicted in the book make readers extinct.