The Time Machine
Author: H. G. Wells
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Languages: English, RU, Chinese, Japanese, HU
Genre: Adventure, Dystopian, Sci-Fi
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A Victorian inventor travels to the year 802,701 and finds humanity split into two species.
Characters
- The Time Traveller — Inventor and narrator of the journey: Victorian inventor who builds a machine to travel through time.
- Weena — Eloi companion in the future: A gentle Eloi woman the Traveller befriends in the far future.
- The Eloi — People of the surface world: Small, childlike humans living idly on the future surface world.
- The Morlocks — Dwellers of the underworld: Pale, ape-like creatures who dwell underground and tend the machines.
- The Narrator — Dinner guest who records the tale: An unnamed dinner guest who recounts the Traveller's story.
- Filby — Dinner guest: An argumentative, red-haired guest at the Traveller's dinner.
- The Medical Man — Dinner guest, a physician: A doctor among the Traveller's dinner guests.
- The Psychologist — Dinner guest: A guest who helps test the model time machine.
- The Editor — Newspaper editor, guest at the second dinner: Editor of a daily paper, a guest at the second dinner.