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Level 4: The Time Machine
Classic / British English
The Time Traveller has built a time machine and has gone into the future to the year 802,701. He expects to find a better world with highly-intelligent people and great inventions. Instead, he finds that people have become weak, child-like creatures. They dance and sing and wear flowers. They seem happy, but why are they so frightened of the dark? And who or what has taken his time machine? Will the Time Traveller ever be able to return to the present?
The Time Traveller has built a time machine and has gone into the future to the year 802,701. He expects to find a better world with highly-intelligent people and great inventions. Instead, he finds that people have become weak, child-like creatures. They dance and sing and wear flowers. They seem happy, but why are they so frightened of the dark? And who or what has taken his time machine? Will the Time Traveller ever be able to return to the present?
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88 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 28, 2019
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October 5, 2021
WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE NEVER CAME BACK QSJDBWOSNDL
August 16, 2022
it was written in 1895, so i got to know how people were thinking back then.
"I saw that all had the same type of clothes, the same soft hairless faces and the same girlish arms and legs."
girlish=weak as it is shown many times in this book
"I saw that all had the same type of clothes, the same soft hairless faces and the same girlish arms and legs."
girlish=weak as it is shown many times in this book
August 30, 2020
Bhadra 14, 2077, Sunday
The Time Machine - David Maule (Adapted by), H.G. Wells (2008)
[Penguin Readers Intermediate (Level 4)]
Genres: EnglishGradedReaders/ Fiction/ Science Fiction/ Fantasy Fiction/ Time Travel Fiction/ Romance/ Dystopian Fiction/ Adaptation
Pages: 78
Rating: 8/10
Themes: Time Travel/ Science/ Society and Class/ Change/ Technology and Modernization/ Passivity/ Fear/ Awe and Amazement.
Opener:
“The Time Traveler (it will be convenient to call him this) was talking to us about geometry. His gray eyes shone and his usually pale face was red and excited. The fire burned brightly and there was that relaxed after-dinner feeling when thoughts run free.”
Summary:
A group of men, including the narrator, are listening to the Time Traveller discuss his theories on time. The Time Traveller produces a miniature time machine and makes it disappear into thin air. He then shows his disbelieving guests a full-scale time machine, which he has made in his laboratory. The Time Traveller proceeds to tell the story of how he travelled to the year 802,701, and found the world occupied by the Eloi and their enemies, the Morlocks. He becomes friends with one of the Eloi, Weena, when he saves her from drowning. After she dies in a fire, the Time Traveller is forced to escape from the Morlocks on his own. He does and then takes his time machine even farther into the future to see the end of the world. He leaves again the next day, and though he says he will return, the Time Traveller is never seen again.
Final review:
H.G. Wells’ hallmark novel, competently adapted here, remains to this day an inspiration for all utopia/ dystopia novels. The seminal work of the author, also his first, is believed to be the forerunner of the sci-fi genre. The book is imaginative, adventurous, and not just a fun read but speculation into the future of the human race as to how it will evolve (or devolve) as it careens forward headlong with the convictions of industrial civilization.
The Time Machine - David Maule (Adapted by), H.G. Wells (2008)
[Penguin Readers Intermediate (Level 4)]
Genres: EnglishGradedReaders/ Fiction/ Science Fiction/ Fantasy Fiction/ Time Travel Fiction/ Romance/ Dystopian Fiction/ Adaptation
Pages: 78
Rating: 8/10
Themes: Time Travel/ Science/ Society and Class/ Change/ Technology and Modernization/ Passivity/ Fear/ Awe and Amazement.
Opener:
“The Time Traveler (it will be convenient to call him this) was talking to us about geometry. His gray eyes shone and his usually pale face was red and excited. The fire burned brightly and there was that relaxed after-dinner feeling when thoughts run free.”
Summary:
A group of men, including the narrator, are listening to the Time Traveller discuss his theories on time. The Time Traveller produces a miniature time machine and makes it disappear into thin air. He then shows his disbelieving guests a full-scale time machine, which he has made in his laboratory. The Time Traveller proceeds to tell the story of how he travelled to the year 802,701, and found the world occupied by the Eloi and their enemies, the Morlocks. He becomes friends with one of the Eloi, Weena, when he saves her from drowning. After she dies in a fire, the Time Traveller is forced to escape from the Morlocks on his own. He does and then takes his time machine even farther into the future to see the end of the world. He leaves again the next day, and though he says he will return, the Time Traveller is never seen again.
Final review:
H.G. Wells’ hallmark novel, competently adapted here, remains to this day an inspiration for all utopia/ dystopia novels. The seminal work of the author, also his first, is believed to be the forerunner of the sci-fi genre. The book is imaginative, adventurous, and not just a fun read but speculation into the future of the human race as to how it will evolve (or devolve) as it careens forward headlong with the convictions of industrial civilization.
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