The Time Machine
By Les Martin (Adapted by); John Edens (Illustrator); H.G. Wells
(Random House Books for Young Readers, Paperback, 9780679803713, 96pp.)
Publication Date: August 18, 1990
Categories: Classics, Readers - Chapter Books, Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic
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Illus. in black-and-white. When a turn-of-the-century scientist travels into the distant future in his time machine, he expects to find progress and superior people. But instead he discovers a world in decay. Reading level: 2.4.
Ursula K. Le Guin has published more than one hundred short stories, two collections of essays, eleven books for children, five volumes of poetry, and seventeen novels. She has received numerous awards, including a National Book Award and a Pushcart Prize. She lives in Oregon.
“[Wells] contrives to give over humanity into the clutches of the Impossible and yet manages to keep it down (or up) to its humanity, to its flesh, blood, sorrow, folly.” —Joseph Conrad











