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The Time Machine Study Guide

by H.G. Wells

The Time Machine study guide contains a biography of H.G. Wells, a complete e-text, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.

The Time Traveler (hereafter known as "TT") tells an after-dinner group of men, including the narrator, that he has invented a Time Machine. He shows them a smaller prototype, and when he pulls a lever, it disappears--into the future, he claims. At the next week's dinner, the TT comes in midway through the meal, haggard and limping. He tells them of his eight days of time travel: The TT (now narrating the story) uses the Time Machine that morning and speeds forward through time. (Description of his journey will be recounted in present tense.)

The TT finally stops, and he and the machine land in a garden. He sees a statue of a White Sphinx. He notices robed figures in a nearby house who are watching him. One approaches him. The creature is…

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• The Time Machine Summary
• About The Time Machine
• Character List
• Major Themes
• Summary and Analysis of Chapters 1-2
• Summary and Analysis of Chapters 3-4
• Summary and Analysis of Chapters 5-6
• Summary and Analysis of Chapters 7-8
• Summary and Analysis of Chapters 9-10
• Summary and Analysis of Chapters 11-Epilogue
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