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Synopsis
The Time Traveller, 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. He lands in the year 802701: the world has been transformed by a society living in apparent harmony and bliss, but as the Traveler stays in the future he discovers a hidden barbaric and depraved subterranean class. Wells's transparent commentary on the capitalist society was an instant bestseller and launched the time-travel genre.
Is The Time Machine appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 13 and up.
Classic sci-fi time travel tale with moderate violence (barbaric subterranean creatures, peril, some horror elements) and social commentary on class division. No sexual content or profanity.
What to know going in
This book has moderate violence, no sexual content, and clean language. Content notes include violence, class struggle, and dystopian society.
Who'll love this
Teens will find the imaginative time travel concept and discovery of a strange future society compelling, with philosophical questions about humanity's fate.