When the time traveler bravely stepped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the year 802,701, and everything had changed. In a different, more utopian time, beings seemed to coexist in perfect harmony. The time traveler thought he could study these wonderful creatures, uncover their secrets, and then return to his own time, until he discovered that his invention, his only means of escape, had been stolen. H.G. Wells' famous novel about the astonishing journey of a man beyond the conventional boundaries of imagination was first published in 1895. It earned him immediate recognition and has since been regarded as one of the great masterpieces of science fiction literature.