La machine à explorer le temps,

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H. G. Wells: La machine à explorer le temps, (French language, 1975)

French language

Published Sept. 1, 1975

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978-2-07-036587-6
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The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 and written as a frame narrative. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle or device to travel purposely and selectively forward or backward through time. The term "time machine", coined by Wells, is now almost universally used to refer to such a vehicle or device.Set in Victorian England, Wells' text is viewed in modern times as a comment on the increasing inequality and class division of his era, which he projects as giving rise to separate human species: the fair Eloi and the savage Morlocks. It is believed that Wells' depiction of the Eloi as a race living in plentitude and abandon was inspired by the utopic romance novel News from Nowhere (1890), though Wells' universe in the novel is notably more savage and …

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