A dreamer obsessed with traveling through time builds himself a time machine and, much to his surprise, travels over 800,000 years into the future. The world has been transformed with a society living in apparent harmony and bliss, but as the Traveler stays in this world of the future he discovers a hidden barbaric and depraved subterranean class. Wells translucent commentary on the capitalist society was an instant bestseller and launched the time-travel genre. The Time Machine, written in 1895, was the twenty-nine year old H.G. Wells first real successHerbert George Wells ,September 21, 1866 - August 13, 1946, was an English writer best known for his science fiction novels such as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, and The Island of Doctor Moreau. He was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction, and produced works in many different genres, including contemporary novels, history, and social commentary. He was also an outspoken socialist. His later works become increasingly political and didactic, and only his early science fiction novels are widely read today. Read by Roy Trumbull and Project Gutenberg.