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A time traveler steps out of his time-transport machine in the year 802, 700 to find Earth populated by a race of wealthy pacifists supported by a repressed slave class. As the conflict between the classes erupts, he realizes his only means of escape, his time machine, has been stolen.

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Having coined the phrase "the war that will end war, " H. G. Wells was disillusioned by the World War I peace settlement. Convinced that humanity needed to awaken to the instability of the world order and remember lessons from the past, the author of numerous science fiction classics set out to write about history. Wells hoped to remind mankind of its common past, provide it with a basis for international patriotism, and guide it to renounce w...

The Time Traveler first steps out of his magnificent time-transport machine in the year 802, 700--more than 800, 000 years beyond his own era. The brave explorer finds himself on a slowly dying Earth populated by a race of slender pacifists called the Eloi and decides to study this lush land of flower people before returning to his own age. These pacifists, he discovers, have built their wealth on the backs of a slave class forced to live belo...