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This story, written in 1895, was the inspiration for all the time travel stories that followed. Read the full description.
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- The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
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- Roy Trumbull
The Time Traveler goes to a future world in which there is no toil or disease. But the people are like children and neither work nor think. Something is wrong and the Time Traveler soon finds out what it is.
The story as printed had no chapter titles. The titles are my addition.
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Piece Description
The Time Traveler goes to a future world in which there is no toil or disease. But the people are like children and neither work nor think. Something is wrong and the Time Traveler soon finds out what it is.
The story as printed had no chapter titles. The titles are my addition.
