Author(s): H.G. Wells

Children's Classics

This wonderful series is a quick way into a range of exciting stories, from the chilling tale of "Frankenstein", to the gripping adventure of "Treasure Island" and the powerful animal story of "Call of the Wild". Fast-moving and accessible, each story is a shortened, dramatically illustrated version of the classic novel, which loses none of the strength and flavour of the original. It is available for the first time with an accompanying audio CD. "The Time Machine" was written by H G Wells in 1895 and was one of three science fiction novels that made him famous. It tells the story of a Time Traveller who builds his own time machine and, to the disbelief of his friends, travels to the future world of AD802,701 - a world which seems perfect at first, but hides a terrible secret...