I was assigned to read this for an English class in high school in 1950. A few years later I was assigned to read it for discussion in a science class. A few years ago, I came upon it on my bookshelves, and picked it up to read - because I knew I would enjoy reading it again! I have been enjoying reading books of all sorts ever since I could read. One summer day when I was eight, I was in our local library looking for a few books to check out and ended up being interviewed on the radio about the “ joy of reading”. I used to sneak my father’s books to read, mostly detective novels. He let me know, however, shortly after I started, that he knew. He also let me know he was proud of me for being interested in learning and reading, and we shared many wonderful books, and discussions about them everafter. Wonderful memories I’ve passed down to my children.
@@RayR Thank you for taking a moment to respond to me. I really appreciate it. I was very lucky in finding my husband, who loves to read as much as I do, and, he does beautiful woodwork and is building us beautiful bookshelves to turn a now empty bedroom into a library for us. He’s been my HERO for 36 years now and has seen me through cancer three times. He has a beautiful soul! Often when we meet people, we look into their eyes: I looked into his eyes and saw his heart! 🙂
My favourite science fiction writer has got to be Robert Heinlein! I love science fiction and discovered early on that most of those writers from the thirties on usually wrote with science and math skills you could trust. Worked for me! The thinking of those writers challenged me.🙂
Here I am all the many years later. This is my freshman year summer reading assignment. My grandpa also had to read this book. Its really cool to share the same things with past generations
Given to me as a Christmas gift when I was 10 years old, the opening sentences of this book stumped me with words I had never heard before. I still remember my slow going and the building fascination with the story. And yes, though I am now 62, I still have the paperback, brown and crumbling as it is, crumbling as I am as well, accompanying me through my travels through time. Much like the time traveler, the future I find myself in is disappointing, not because I am old and getting older, which I anticipated, but because the worldwide information network, which was supposed to dispel ignorance, has become an instrument of misinformation, exacerbating the divisions inherent in humanity. There is no longer any authority that can be trusted. What this means for humanity is not difficult to guess. The future is not what it used to be.
Fab Audio Books It's interesting when I first read it, improved my vocabulary, but when it was all a dream in the end how can I believe it, and poor Weena she died in her world but the time traveler makes it in his world I'll give it an 8/10
I remember seeing the movie back in 1960 with my older brother and it totally captivated me and was a powerful influence in my life. I'd never read the book but I really enjoyed this audiobook. The movie was a good bit different. I think I remember in the movie The Time traveler went into the moorlock cavern to try to rescue Weena. But I think he was unsuccessful. I remember how that really moved me, the way he lost this beautiful female creature and his only companion. I was like eight or nine years old back then. What a great movie and classic.
He was successful, i think after speaking to Filby at the end he moves the time machine ( therefore outside the Morlock cave)and travels in time again to get Weena
FYI...for anyone who applies modern and quantum physics to this story...ITS FICTIONAL!!! It's a science fiction novel written in 1895 by a very creative and fairly knowledgeable author whom speculated based on understanding of physics 115 years ago. I think it's a brilliant work.
Everything is fictional until it has been proven to be true, just as the concept of microorganisms. When we don't have the right tool to measure it, it doesn't mean that the fact doesn't exist. Yet, we easily judge the unknown fact as fiction.
In the 1960s, when I was a little kid, I fell in love with the movie. Must have seen it over a dozen times over the years, but had never had the pleasure of reading/listening to this classic until now... It's way better than the film!😂❤
The Rod Taylor film was great fun, but I wish someone (Netflix, for instance) would produce a faithful adaptation of this book. The length and complexity of the story call for a series, not a one-off movie.
Such a beautiful story, so well written. Beautifully read audio book too. The book definitely captures the intensity of time traveling, more than the adaption film in the early 2000s. I haven't seen the old film yet though. Glad I ran into this gem. Going for another listen.
The movie made in 1960 had some changes (which was natural, being a movie and being adapted from the book) but all in all, it was a decent movie. I haven't seen the latest one, nor do I intend to. If that sounds closed minded, it's because I've been soured by far too many "updated adaptations" that are too interested in checking off every box on the PC checklist or pushing a message or agenda as opposed to telling a good story or being faithful to the source material. (Which seems to be the case with the 2002 version in every respect. As with all things, YMMV)
@@TheDoctor1225 I totally agree, newer adaptions of films or books, are always riddled with agendas nowadays. However since it was 2002 I didn't really see an agenda per say that is relative to the Vile ones presently. But the books variation brings very deeper, broader scope to the world of the "Time machine" that I enjoy more than the 2002 film. I will be watching the 1960s adaption soon. I'm glad to hear your views on this. ✌🏿
The irony is that "Eureka!" is translated to "I found it". In reference to chronology / time - whether having too much time or not enough of it, it has you.
I first read this book as a kid, after it was featured in the TV series Wishbone. It is a much shorter book than I remember it being. I literally finished it in one evening just now. Spoiler alert: Regarding where the time traveler goes in the end, the book never says, but it is not hard to figure it out. He went back to the eloi, resolving to do things differently so that Weena would not die this time, and to destroy the morlocks so that they could no longer harm the eloi. He never came back because he had grown to care for the eloi, and he did not want to come back. The book is, in many ways, the same plot as the movie "Idiocracy". An ordinary man finds himself far in the future, where society has greatly diminished in its intelligence. This ordinary man is suddenly the smartest man in the world. At first, he wishes to return to the present. In the end, he decides to stay, and use his intelligence to make this future world a better place. Similarly, in Idiocracy, an average man wakes up 500 years in the future, where everyone else is stupid and he is suddenly a genius. He initially wants to return to the present/past (believing that someone had invented a time machine). After helping to make a positive difference, he begins to care for the people of the future, and announces that he has decided to stay (before finding out that the "Time Masheen" was just a dumb amusement park ride anyway).
There’s an official sequel to this written by Stephen Baxter called The Time Ships. I think he explained what happened to the Traveler, but as it’s been like 20 years since I read it, I can’t remember.
Joseph Marturana I know this comment is 5years old but still.. And to think this chap also wrote War of the worlds!!! The man was clearly ahead of his time.
Wendy Testaburger i like to depress people by saying “By telling his story, he stopped humans from evolving into two different specifies and when he tries to go into the future to visit Weena, she’s not there because he prevented her existence.”
There is a problem HG Wells did not foresee~! Space, and time are moving (As in the Big Bang.). The entire planet, the solar system, the galaxy, and the universe are not in the same place, as you travel through time…… To have a Time Machine you would also need "Space Coordinates", and the "Time Machine would need to fly in order to track the Earths movements Without this, the 'Time Traveter" would be lost in space, because the planet earth would still be moving through space, as well. Example #1: Where you stand today, would not be the same place you stand tomorrow. Because the planet is turning, and orbits the sun, galaxy, and universe… Example #2 IF you were traveling on a Cruies Ship and it was out sailing the seas, although you have not move from cabin, you are not in the same place you were minutes ago….
davesyndrome he is right though there is motion so you can't be sitting at the same physical point with time lapse, it would not jive with Einstein's theory of general relativity, you'd have to time curve the space or space curve the time ;-)
harold davis but the reason that cars don't fly of into space as the earth moves in the other direction everyday is because of the force of gravity. The machine is moving faster in time but it is still affected by gravity and so it moves along with the surface of the earth.
The machine stays in place do to gravity. You can see this before the time traveler leaves for the last time in the last chapter. Or hear. I know theres holes in my explanatiom or notice. Just keep in mind when the book came out.
I was looking at my daughter books and I saw this one. When I read it was written over 100 years ago, and the plot sounded ahead of it's time I wanted to read it, but I'd rather have it read to me. Thank you.
I love this story. But I am a military man so I look at everything with that mindset. It always bothered me that he didn't think to take rations and some form of self defense.
I'm leaving a comment as I read this outstanding piece of art. God this story been copied many times before but not improved upo. hmmmmmmmm. That makes me think....
+1978rharris mmm sure one of the parents...., and possibly my favorite, but the first novel about a time machine was "El anacronopete" writte..n by Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau published in Spanish language 10 years before the publication of HG wells. Both magnificent works
1978rharris FRANKENSTEIN was certainly part of gothic fiction, but unlike the regular 19 Century gothic fiction which were fantastical/supernatural-themed stories like Bram Stoker`s DRACULA, it was inspired on a "what if..." scientific scenario, predating things like transplanting organs, and robotics.And despite your bias Jules Verne was French, but he is world-wide praised because most of his stories were amazingly prescient, and inspiring abouth many of the modern technologies that we see currently; From Air, Undersea, and Space travel to television, and Fax. The sad thing is that he is still regarded as a "non serious" writer in the English speaking world, mostly because the awful translations of most of his classic books, many of them adapted succesfully into film (I love the 1950's Disney`s version of 20000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA). He combined the romanticism for travel and adventure with the possibilities that science and technology could bring for the future, and he did in the middle of the steam age. He certainly did pave the way for authors like your "Bertie", Conan Doyle, and even Edgar Rice Burroughs
Robert Taylor, the time traveller ... after the movie, H.G. Wells was the master of Sci-Fi.; this should be mandatory listening to in all English classes throughout the land.
This was great! I still wonder where the eloys got their clothes, if the morlocks really ran the machinery & what was it for, why everything was a ruin, what truly happened to weena, who built the sphynx, how the morlocks came to be
Morlocks came to be due to living underground for so long and being forced to adapt. Humans built the sphinx. Weena died which is the inevitable outcome of existing in time. So too did the time traveler. He wasn't immune to aging.
According to the book, the Morlocks kept the Eloys like cattle and provided them with all they needed, until it was time to 'harvest' them. I presume this includes their clothing although I can't really see a Morlock sitting down at a sewing machine :) :) ..... maybe that's what the machinery was for? A massive series of steam powered sewing machines! :) LOL
I always wondered just what happened to the Time Traveler at the end there? He mentioned that he was going to get specimens this time, I wonder he might could have gone back to the time of the dinosaurs and maybe materialized in a volcano? It could be that Britain was underwater in boiling water at the time of Pangea perhaps? Or a dinosaur could have just stepped on his machine? Who knows? 🤗
@@cha5 That's the thing about it, the novel leaves it up to us and our imagination to fill in the gaps - just as the members of The Time Traveller's philosophical circle were doing at the end of the novel.
Great story read perfectly, also recommended is the outstanding Big Finish audio drama adaption done in 2017. It is almost 100% faithful to the book, just one or two slight alterations but nothing major.
A good story that leaves one wanting more, almost as enjoyable as laughing at the comments posted by people of when the chapters start meanwhile its all in the description. Can't say I'm shocked people looking for an audio-book don't want to read.
It might be that they like to read but do sewing or something else while listening! Maybe they are blind? Be kind! Some day you will appreciate someone being kind to you!
Those delightful little observations of humankind, how man may evolve, how society may evolve... those are priceless HG Wells thoughts. Thank you for a good reading. Susan ❤️
I was assigned to read this for an English class in high school in 1950. A few years later I was assigned to read it for discussion in a science class. A few years ago, I came upon it on my bookshelves, and picked it up to read - because I knew I would enjoy reading it again! I have been enjoying reading books of all sorts ever since I could read. One summer day when I was eight, I was in our local library looking for a few books to check out and ended up being interviewed on the radio about the “ joy of reading”. I used to sneak my father’s books to read, mostly detective novels. He let me know, however, shortly after I started, that he knew. He also let me know he was proud of me for being interested in learning and reading, and we shared many wonderful books, and discussions about them everafter. Wonderful memories I’ve passed down to my children.
Great stuff Lynn.
@@RayR Thank you for taking a moment to respond to me. I really appreciate it. I was very lucky in finding my husband, who loves to read as much as I do, and, he does beautiful woodwork and is building us beautiful bookshelves to turn a now empty bedroom into a library for us. He’s been my HERO for 36 years now and has seen me through cancer three times. He has a beautiful soul! Often when we meet people, we look into their eyes: I looked into his eyes and saw his heart! 🙂
My favourite science fiction writer has got to be Robert Heinlein! I love science fiction and discovered early on that most of those writers from the thirties on usually wrote with science and math skills you could trust. Worked for me! The thinking of those writers challenged me.🙂
@@lynnrobinson8885 god bless yoe
Here I am all the many years later. This is my freshman year summer reading assignment. My grandpa also had to read this book. Its really cool to share the same things with past generations
Given to me as a Christmas gift when I was 10 years old, the opening sentences of this book stumped me with words I had never heard before.
I still remember my slow going and the building fascination with the story. And yes, though I am now 62, I still have the paperback, brown and crumbling as it is, crumbling as I am as well, accompanying me through my travels through time.
Much like the time traveler, the future I find myself in is disappointing, not because I am old and getting older, which I anticipated, but because the worldwide information network, which was supposed to dispel ignorance, has become an instrument of misinformation, exacerbating the divisions inherent in humanity.
There is no longer any authority that can be trusted. What this means for humanity is not difficult to guess.
The future is not what it used to be.
@@mmllppcc what is your confusion?
Timestamps for mobile users:
0:00:00 Chapter 1
0:21:08 Chapter 2
0:34:40 Chapter 3
0:49:18 Chapter 4
1:14:52 Chapter 5
1:57:06 Chapter 6
2:11:08 Chapter 7
2:27:42 Chapter 8
2:44:18 Chapter 9
3:00:56 Chapter 10
3:08:22 Chapter 11
3:21:38 Chapter 12
3:34:14 Epilogue
I cannot tell you how much time you just saved me, you're and angel💕
tanks
God bless you . Thanks
You’re a god damn lifesaver
I don't trust you. Did you travel in time to know the exact time where the chapters were?
anyone here just cause they like the story and not for school or anything?
Yup, it was a good book! :D
Nah
@@billythepotato5860 Lmao.
Red Floyd for school my guy
Yes
... even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man.
Beautiful!
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This is one of our favourite books and the narrator is excellent. What do you think?
Fab Audio Books 2018...
Fab Audio Books It's interesting when I first read it, improved my vocabulary, but when it was all a dream in the end how can I believe it, and poor Weena she died in her world but the time traveler makes it in his world I'll give it an 8/10
Fab Audio Books i liked the show better
The narrator is excellent indeed
The narrator I think is the same guy who narrates Mythbusters
I wish a good listening to all BCS fans! 👋
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What that
Beautifully read. One of my favourite books. My Grandad first told me the story when I was about 8 and it has fascinated me ever since.
+Jason Pope Thanks for your comments Jason. The Time Machine is is definitely one of our favourite books too. It's truly timeless... pun intended. FAB
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I remember seeing the movie back in 1960 with my older brother and it totally captivated me and was a powerful influence in my life. I'd never read the book but I really enjoyed this audiobook. The movie was a good bit different. I think I remember in the movie The Time traveler went into the moorlock cavern to try to rescue Weena. But I think he was unsuccessful. I remember how that really moved me, the way he lost this beautiful female creature and his only companion. I was like eight or nine years old back then. What a great movie and classic.
He was successful, i think after speaking to Filby at the end he moves the time machine ( therefore outside the Morlock cave)and travels in time again to get Weena
Chapter 2 page 17 21:07
Chapter 3 page 26 34:40
Chapter 4 page 36 49:18
Chapter 5 page 53 1:14:52
Chapter 6 page 82 1:57:06
Chapter 7 page 92 2:11:08
Chapter 8 page 103 2:27:42
Chapter 9 page 114 2:44:20
Chapter 10 Page 125 3:00:57
Chapter 11 page 130 3:08:23
Chapter 12 page 138 3:21:38
Epilogue page 147 3:34:12
FYI...for anyone who applies modern and quantum physics to this story...ITS FICTIONAL!!!
It's a science fiction novel written in 1895 by a very creative and fairly knowledgeable author whom speculated based on understanding of physics 115 years ago. I think it's a brilliant work.
lmao
Fiction? You mean this didn't really happen?
Thank you Sheldon Cooper
Everything is fictional until it has been proven to be true, just as the concept of microorganisms. When we don't have the right tool to measure it, it doesn't mean that the fact doesn't exist. Yet, we easily judge the unknown fact as fiction.
@@elysabethmuliawan9961 I'm with you on that
In the 1960s, when I was a little kid, I fell in love with the movie. Must have seen it over a dozen times over the years, but had never had the pleasure of reading/listening to this classic until now... It's way better than the film!😂❤
Ditto. I loved the movie as a kid, still do.. I thought when I was young I would love to travel back in time. But , alas....
Lovely comment.
The Rod Taylor film was great fun, but I wish someone (Netflix, for instance) would produce a faithful adaptation of this book. The length and complexity of the story call for a series, not a one-off movie.
Learned about this book through "What's the Story Wishbone?" On PBS Kids in the early 2000's.
The fact this was written in 1895 is amazing. H.G. Wells was one of the greatest authors.
Saul Gone Man
Yeah
One of my favorite books. Thank you much, good sir! Published nearly 100 years before my birth, which makes it much better in many aspects.
One of the best readings of the classic book from H.G.Wells! Highly recommended to listen to while following along in the actual book!
I like to fall asleep listening to this one.
+Jason Dole u dont even know, im our mosiacs class we're listening to this, half the class is asleep ;)
Timi Demian get off your phone in class you insolent little turd
Same
Literally what I'm doing
3:35 Imagine, this was all written pre-Einstein. I wonder how much the physicist was influenced by the works of H.G. Wells.
This book is real classic...while reading ...u can feel the thrill in your bones...
Such a beautiful story, so well written. Beautifully read audio book too. The book definitely captures the intensity of time traveling, more than the adaption film in the early 2000s. I haven't seen the old film yet though. Glad I ran into this gem. Going for another listen.
The movie made in 1960 had some changes (which was natural, being a movie and being adapted from the book) but all in all, it was a decent movie. I haven't seen the latest one, nor do I intend to. If that sounds closed minded, it's because I've been soured by far too many "updated adaptations" that are too interested in checking off every box on the PC checklist or pushing a message or agenda as opposed to telling a good story or being faithful to the source material. (Which seems to be the case with the 2002 version in every respect. As with all things, YMMV)
@@TheDoctor1225 I totally agree, newer adaptions of films or books, are always riddled with agendas nowadays. However since it was 2002 I didn't really see an agenda per say that is relative to the Vile ones presently. But the books variation brings very deeper, broader scope to the world of the "Time machine" that I enjoy more than the 2002 film. I will be watching the 1960s adaption soon. I'm glad to hear your views on this. ✌🏿
I NEEDED THIS FOR SCHOOL #thankyou
Same
#welcome
Me too, about 60 years ago!
Same
Is anyone using this for English class instead of reading the book? LOL
LEET CHEETS FTW!!! Hey... good on you! I still got a 65 on the test...
maybe…;)
Silver Phoenix ye lol
Silver Phoenix Im using it for a scholarshio
Yup right here lol cheaper than the book :p
Interesting fact. The first writer to discuss the Space-Time Continuum as one was Edgar Allen Poe in an essay he wrote in 1848 called "Eureka"
Yes Poe was an authentic American genius. As good as any
European : the first detective story
writer and inventor of horror
fiction .
The irony is that "Eureka!" is translated to "I found it". In reference to chronology / time - whether having too much time or not enough of it, it has you.
who here listening in 802,701
I first read this book as a kid, after it was featured in the TV series Wishbone. It is a much shorter book than I remember it being. I literally finished it in one evening just now.
Spoiler alert:
Regarding where the time traveler goes in the end, the book never says, but it is not hard to figure it out. He went back to the eloi, resolving to do things differently so that Weena would not die this time, and to destroy the morlocks so that they could no longer harm the eloi. He never came back because he had grown to care for the eloi, and he did not want to come back.
The book is, in many ways, the same plot as the movie "Idiocracy". An ordinary man finds himself far in the future, where society has greatly diminished in its intelligence. This ordinary man is suddenly the smartest man in the world. At first, he wishes to return to the present. In the end, he decides to stay, and use his intelligence to make this future world a better place.
Similarly, in Idiocracy, an average man wakes up 500 years in the future, where everyone else is stupid and he is suddenly a genius. He initially wants to return to the present/past (believing that someone had invented a time machine). After helping to make a positive difference, he begins to care for the people of the future, and announces that he has decided to stay (before finding out that the "Time Masheen" was just a dumb amusement park ride anyway).
Nope... The Traveler never actually time traveled... He lied, it was a hoax!
There’s an official sequel to this written by Stephen Baxter called The Time Ships. I think he explained what happened to the Traveler, but as it’s been like 20 years since I read it, I can’t remember.
Enjoying this today while I work. Thanks for this post. HG Wells is brilliant.
Joseph Marturana I know this comment is 5years old but still..
And to think this chap also wrote War of the worlds!!! The man was clearly ahead of his time.
I pack more things for a two day trip than this guy does for going into the future 800,000 years!
I know, right? At least a protein bar and a Gatorade 😁
Gary Morris Yeh, Maybe pass by 2018 pick a few up and go back to 800,002 (if i remember correctly)
@@handyboy1899 you got some people to feed to the morlocks?
Maybe take a pistol and shotgun back with a few thousand rounds of ammo.
@@hoosierpatriot2280 nah, why polute the time line?
read it myself in the summer of 2009. brilliant story in its unabridged form!
classic book, how often it's been copied, the idea of seeing his maid walking backwards (bet that was a first), excellent narration
Rod Taylor amazing performance in the time machine. Rip
It’s 11 pm and I have a test over this tomorrow. Wish me luck 😂😂
John Bartley me rn
Brock Wooten rip
From the future. How did the test work out ???.😀
@@fonziebulldog5786 no youtube. He's prolly studying.
If you did bad, just go back in time, and take it over again, knowing the answers. Good luck.
Yes, one of my favorite movies of all time. RIP Rod.
Sent here from Better call Saul.
Me too how strange
I like to think that he came back to save Weena and they spent their lives exploring Time
Wendy Testaburger i like to depress people by saying “By telling his story, he stopped humans from evolving into two different specifies and when he tries to go into the future to visit Weena, she’s not there because he prevented her existence.”
Boooooo Wendy Testaberger Booooooooooo
I actually like the direction his life took.
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I would have.
There is a problem HG Wells did not foresee~! Space, and time are moving (As in the Big Bang.). The entire planet, the solar system, the galaxy, and the universe are not in the same place, as you travel through time…… To have a Time Machine you would also need "Space Coordinates", and the "Time Machine would need to fly in order to track the Earths movements
Without this, the 'Time Traveter" would be lost in space, because the planet earth would still be moving through space, as well.
Example #1: Where you stand today, would not be the same place you stand tomorrow. Because the planet is turning, and orbits the sun, galaxy, and universe…
Example #2 IF you were traveling on a Cruies Ship and it was out sailing the seas, although you have not move from cabin, you are not in the same place you were minutes ago….
harold davis It's a wonderful story, and way before it's "TIME" but the story based on it's own science, makes this kind of time machine impossible.
harold davis aren't you kind of assuming that such a notion as "absolute space" or an "absolute reference system" exists?
davesyndrome he is right though there is motion so you can't be sitting at the same physical point with time lapse, it would not jive with Einstein's theory of general relativity, you'd have to time curve the space or space curve the time ;-)
harold davis but the reason that cars don't fly of into space as the earth moves in the other direction everyday is because of the force of gravity. The machine is moving faster in time but it is still affected by gravity and so it moves along with the surface of the earth.
The machine stays in place do to gravity. You can see this before the time traveler leaves for the last time in the last chapter. Or hear.
I know theres holes in my explanatiom or notice.
Just keep in mind when the book came out.
Many thanks for posting. Very good reading of a thought provoking classic story.
When you have to read this book for English I and had a few weeks but instead you are doing it the day before so you listen while you read.
I wished I had to read this for school because I missed out on this for so many years. Glad I found it now
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42:10 That truly is brilliant writing in my opinion. HG Wells had thought these possible time travelling issues out so very well.
This is the 3rd time I'm listening to this version - the reader is sublime - perfectly suited to the story - simply amazing.
Great book! I read it in 2027
I was looking at my daughter books and I saw this one. When I read it was written over 100 years ago, and the plot sounded ahead of it's time I wanted to read it, but I'd rather have it read to me. Thank you.
Written over 1 year ago
@@beautifulindia22 r/technicallythetruth
@@lauries3961 yes i agree
The time machine in a nutshell : "...but later...I found that I was wrong"
Way off. You need to do more traveling.
A Swiss army knife is all you need.
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Read it a couple of times , love these old classics.
to hear of the morlock and eloi's predatorial relationship smacks of todays society. HG was indeed a great visionary.
Michael Fisher maybe thr time machine was real lol
I needed this for school, this book was way above my reading level but I wanted to impress my teacher so thanks
THANK YOU ❣️
Stroy is very nice
I love this story. But I am a military man so I look at everything with that mindset. It always bothered me that he didn't think to take rations and some form of self defense.
Love this simple old story. Loved his explanation of time as a kid. Kept thinking I missed how the machine actually worked.
How do I get familiar with the curiosity of this kind of space that we like to refer to as time?
@@Physical258 theory of relativity I suppose
Anyone else listening for school?
Try some Thomas Sowell, and you will educate your teachers,-----easily.
I needed this for school it was so helpful
Lola Shirley You're lucky if you get to read this in school :)
Great audio book. The narrator was easy to listen to and did not make mistakes while reading.
good thing I can hear this in 3 hours because my assignment on this book is due in 4 hours lol.
not sure why there are down votes for this story, great read. Really appreciate the upload.
mind blow. good book plus excellent narration
Thanks Mark. We couldn't agree more! This is one of our very favourite audiobooks.
Very expertly read . Don’t usually enjoy audio versions of books, preferring drama enactments . However this is exceptional.
Loved this story! Just finished it! :)
Really good book I never got around to reading. I didnt like the narration at first but as it went on I grew to really like it.
This was great, especially on 1.5 speed ;)
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Thanks for the reminder.
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agreed, read the whole book on 1.5 speed
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I'm leaving a comment as I read this outstanding piece of art. God this story been copied many times before but not improved upo. hmmmmmmmm. That makes me think....
The annual general meeting of the time Travellers Association will be held last Thursday at 2pm in Chelsea London.
I will have am going to have been there.
Amazing, i like time travel, wish i could go back to the past
Go back now...to three years ago..when you wrote this comment. I hope the present serves you well!🇬🇧
I've loved this book since elementary school, it really made me use my imagination while reading.
oh Yeah Yeah
Been looking for stories about 2 1/2 to 3 hours long to read. Tryna read/listen to 100 books this year
I recommend graphic novels. They’re really quick to read and some of them have gorgeous art work.
H G Wells: the father of science fiction
+1978rharris mmm sure one of the parents...., and possibly my favorite, but the first novel about a time machine was "El anacronopete" writte..n by Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau published in Spanish language 10 years before the publication of HG wells. Both magnificent works
+1978rharris And what abouth Jules Verne and Mary Shelley as both the "grandparents" of the genre?
+daniel pitti Mary Shelley was more horror. And Jules Verne was French, which automatically precludes him from any type of accolade! 😉
1978rharris FRANKENSTEIN was certainly part of gothic fiction, but unlike the regular 19 Century gothic fiction which were fantastical/supernatural-themed stories like Bram Stoker`s DRACULA, it was inspired on a "what if..." scientific scenario, predating things like transplanting organs, and robotics.And despite your bias Jules Verne was French, but he is world-wide praised because most of his stories were amazingly prescient, and inspiring abouth many of the modern technologies that we see currently; From Air, Undersea, and Space travel to television, and Fax. The sad thing is that he is still regarded as a "non serious" writer in the English speaking world, mostly because the awful translations of most of his classic books, many of them adapted succesfully into film (I love the 1950's Disney`s version of 20000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA). He combined the romanticism for travel and adventure with the possibilities that science and technology could bring for the future, and he did in the middle of the steam age. He certainly did pave the way for authors like your "Bertie", Conan Doyle, and even Edgar Rice Burroughs
+1978rharris Your bias toward Verne is nonesycal, kinda jingoistic
Robert Taylor, the time traveller ... after the movie, H.G. Wells was the master of Sci-Fi.; this should be mandatory listening to in all English classes throughout the land.
Thank you you help me sleep
Your me !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This was great! I still wonder where the eloys got their clothes, if the morlocks really ran the machinery & what was it for, why everything was a ruin, what truly happened to weena, who built the sphynx, how the morlocks came to be
Morlocks came to be due to living underground for so long and being forced to adapt. Humans built the sphinx. Weena died which is the inevitable outcome of existing in time. So too did the time traveler. He wasn't immune to aging.
According to the book, the Morlocks kept the Eloys like cattle and provided them with all they needed, until it was time to 'harvest' them. I presume this includes their clothing although I can't really see a Morlock sitting down at a sewing machine :) :) ..... maybe that's what the machinery was for? A massive series of steam powered sewing machines! :) LOL
The machines were an air recycling system.
I always wondered just what happened to the Time Traveler at the end there? He mentioned that he was going to get specimens this time, I wonder he might could have gone back to the time of the dinosaurs and maybe materialized in a volcano?
It could be that Britain was underwater in boiling water at the time of Pangea perhaps? Or a dinosaur could have just stepped on his machine?
Who knows? 🤗
@@cha5 That's the thing about it, the novel leaves it up to us and our imagination to fill in the gaps - just as the members of The Time Traveller's philosophical circle were doing at the end of the novel.
the narration is perfect for this book. thanks for sharing!
Yes perfect book
"Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless" 3:03:18
Great story read perfectly, also recommended is the outstanding Big Finish audio drama adaption done in 2017. It is almost 100% faithful to the book, just one or two slight alterations but nothing major.
I love this book more than any other book I've read in elementary school
Fantastic reading of this great story 👏
These are great long drives or long winded tasks that require lots of patience. Thank you for sharing
A good story that leaves one wanting more, almost as enjoyable as laughing at the comments posted by people of when the chapters start meanwhile its all in the description. Can't say I'm shocked people looking for an audio-book don't want to read.
It might be that they like to read but do sewing or something else while listening! Maybe they are blind? Be kind! Some day you will appreciate someone being kind to you!
Those delightful little observations of humankind, how man may evolve, how society may evolve... those are priceless HG Wells thoughts. Thank you for a good reading. Susan ❤️
I quite enjoyed this book I was listening wile i worked,
I may buy a hard copy of the book for my self.
Did you buy it?
Was anyone else completely scarred by the idea of humans farming other humans for meat? Just me?
1:01:30
Chapter 4
I read this book around the year 1964. I read it a bit after I saw the movie...because I saw the movie. I like to imagine that he did return to Weena.
Why would an old guy return to a future of young hot babes - Hmm he's a nice guy? or Bill Clinton.
i have a test next monday in this book thanks
Did you pass
Yeah did you pass?
Listen to it in half the time by upping speed to 1.5
Good idea thanks
For half the time, it would need to be 2x
Wells was concerned about what unbridled capitalism would lead to back in 1895. In addition to entertaining readers the story was meant as a warning
Excellent post. H G Wells was a genius
Great storyline, one of my favourite novelettes
I is talking to my self
Thank You for this audio book recording . always liked this book .
I read this in third grade and it was awesome
3rd grade? Lol
I’m in the witty committee
Amazing Reader!!! Lol… I love this guy, I could listen to him read for days.
I really enjoyed that, thank you.
Shame about his little weena
H. G. Wells. Was very aware of what's really going on in this planet.🙏💖🙏"All that we see is an illusion, A dream within a dream. 🌌🎁🙏
Only if we choose to. Reason is a human capability that makes us human, and it is possible to "know" reality. It takes practice.
Great imagination in one time without tv
I remember reading this all night at my grandma and grandpas house, good times
Just finished this audio book. Awesome read
Read this tomorrow. Excellent.
Love the story, great job!
But oh my lord how many times can he use the word presently???
Hello angie, i'm from singapore
Story is good time travel
or incontinently. lol
Well that was a cheery, inspiring read, fraught with hope for the future of humanity
Nice job, thanks.
Mark Nelson’s reading of The Time Machine is excellent. So many of the Libravox recordings are bad. Does anyone know if he has done any others. Thanks
They have SO many lousy narrators that absolutely ruin the stories they read. Maddening. Unlistenable. Nelson is one of the few exceptions.