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The time machine / H.G. Wells.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Leicester : Thorpe, 2017Edition: Large print editionDescription: 154 pages (large print) ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781444833034
  • 1444833030
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace.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 realises that these beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture - now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. But they have every reason to be afraid, for in deep tunnels beneath their paradise lurks another race - the sinister Morlocks. And when the scientist's time machine vanishes, he has no choice but to venture into the subterranean realm ...
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Large Print Book Large Print Book Main Library Large Print Fiction Wells, H. G. Checked out 05/13/2024 33111009681541
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When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace.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 realises that these beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture - now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. But they have every reason to be afraid, for in deep tunnels beneath their paradise lurks another race - the sinister Morlocks. And when the scientist's time machine vanishes, he has no choice but to venture into the subterranean realm...

When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace.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 realises that these beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture - now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. But they have every reason to be afraid, for in deep tunnels beneath their paradise lurks another race - the sinister Morlocks. And when the scientist's time machine vanishes, he has no choice but to venture into the subterranean realm ...

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