5/30/2023 0 Comments The Time Machine by H.G. Wells![]() Why not? What would it be like to live near London in the 1890s? Well, it would all depend on who you were. As the Epilogue tells us, however, he is aware of them, and he's not optimistic about the prospects. (We imagine it's a lot like Wallace & Gromit's house.) In this house in Richmond, surrounded by professional friends and nearly invisible servants, the Time Traveller seems somewhat insulated from the economic and political problems of the time. We don't see very much of the house in which it's set, just that it has a dining room, smoking room, laboratory, garden, man-servant, housekeeper, and maybe a cook. Our story takes place in a suburb of London called Richmond (which, yes, is part of London now). ![]() England in the 1890s, in the year AD 802,701, and more than 30 million years in the future The 1890s, a gentleman-scientist's house (with servants) near London ![]()
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