When the Time Traveller courageously stepped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the year 802,700—and everything had changed. In this unfamiliar, utopian age creatures seemed to dwell together in perfect harmony. The Time Traveller thought he could study these marvelous beings—unearth their secret and then return to his own time—until he discovered that his invention, his only avenue of escape, had been stolen. H. G. Wells’s famous novel of one man’s astonishing journey beyond the conventional limits of the imagination first appeared in 1895. It won him immediate recognition and has been regarded ever since as one of the great masterpieces in the literature of science fiction.

タイムマシン”を発明したタイム・トラヴェラーは、80万年後の世界へ飛ぶ。そこは、地上に住む華奢で穏やかなイーロイ人と、地底をねぐらにする獰猛なモーロック人という2種族による原始的な階級社会だった...。SFの不朽の名作。