The Time Machine |
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Author:
| Wells, H. G. |
ISBN: | 978-1-9765-7654-6 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2017 |
Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $5.80 |
Book Description:
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Original text."The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient tospeak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.His grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his usually paleface was flushed and animated. The fire burned brightly,and the soft radiance of the incandescent lights in thelilies of silver caught the bubbles that flashed andpassed in our glasses. Our chairs, being his patents,embraced and caressed us rather than submitted to besat upon, and there was that luxurious...
More DescriptionOriginal text."The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient tospeak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.His grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his usually paleface was flushed and animated. The fire burned brightly,and the soft radiance of the incandescent lights in thelilies of silver caught the bubbles that flashed andpassed in our glasses. Our chairs, being his patents,embraced and caressed us rather than submitted to besat upon, and there was that luxurious after-dinneratmosphere when thought roams gracefully free of thetrammels of precision. And he put it to us in this way-marking the points with a lean forefinger-as we satand lazily admired his earnestness over this newparadox (as we thought it) and his fecundity."