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The Time Machine

An inventor travels to the year 802,701 and finds what has become of humankind.
  • H. G. Wells (1866–1946)
  • First published 1895
  • Novel
  • Available online · Awaiting physical preservation
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    100 pages · no copies printed yet

  2. The Time Machine 2/7Not printed

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The Time Machine An Invention by H. G. Wells CONTENTS I Introduction II The Machine III The Time Traveller Returns IV Time Travelling V In the Golden Age
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Where this text came from, and why it is free to share

Source

First book edition, Heinemann, London (1895).

Transcribed text: ebook 35 at www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35, released there 2004-10-02 (that is the transcription's date, not the book's). Copied 2026-10-30. Its own record says: “Public domain in the USA.”

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Changes to the text

  • The source's header, licence, footer and production credits were removed.
  • Line breaks inside paragraphs were joined; paragraphs and short-line blocks such as contents lists were kept.
  • Underscores marking italics were removed.
  • Extra spaces were collapsed.
  • No illustrations were imported; captions stay as text.

Rights

  • First published before 1931: public domain in the United States.
  • The author died before 1956: out of copyright where protection lasts the author's life plus 70 years.

Public domain in the United States (first published 1895); the author died in 1946, so also out of copyright where protection lasts the author's life plus 70 years. Not reviewed country by country beyond that.

Text only. The source's licence, trademark and boilerplate are removed, so the archive does not use the source's name as a mark; the source is cited as provenance.

Reviewed 2026-10-30, batch seed-2026-10. Archive editions credit the original author; Aurelune printed them and claims no rights in the text.