The Time Machine Penguin Classics Horror Book Review

  When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year a.d. 802,701, he is initially delighted to   find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment, and peace. Entranced at first by the   Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realizes that these beautiful people are simply   remnants of a once-great culture—now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. They have every   reason to be afraid: in deep tunnels beneath their paradise lurks another race descended from   humanity—the sinister Morlocks. And when the scientist’s time machine vanishes, it becomes clear   he must search these tunnels if he is ever to return to his own era. 

  -Includes a newly established text, a full biographical essay on Wells,  a list of further reading, and detailed notes -Marina Warner’s introduction considers Wells’s development of the   “scientific romance” and places the novel in the context of its time