A serialised classic, retold for sleep

The Time Machine, night by night.

The Time Machine, night by night. The far future at dusk — Wells's 1895 original retold in our own words, its wonder kept and its terrors held at a sleepy distance. Each night is a long, slow session of a chapter or three, read by a calm voice with long silences. Take them in order, or open the night that suits the evening. The nights are planned and on their way; every night below switches on the night it is ready. The story is Wells's; every sentence here is our own.

Serialised classic

The Nights

The whole book, retold slowly for sleep. Each night switches on the night it is ready.

6 nights
The Time Machine — Night 1: The Inventor's Parlour
Coming soon Night 1 — The Inventor's Parlour After dinner, a small ivory-and-brass model vanishes from a table — and a larger one waits in the workshop.
The Time Machine — Night 2: Into Tomorrow
Coming soon Night 2 — Into Tomorrow The lever tips, the laboratory melts into rushing days and nights, and the world remakes itself around the saddle.
The Time Machine — Night 3: The Golden Age
Coming soon Night 3 — The Golden Age The year eight hundred and two thousand — soft meadows, fruit for dinner, and the small gentle people of the upper world.
The Time Machine — Night 4: Weena
Coming soon Night 4 — Weena A rescue from the river earns the traveller a friend, and two white flowers go into a coat pocket for good.
The Time Machine — Night 5: The Palace of Green Porcelain
Coming soon Night 5 — The Palace of Green Porcelain A museum of everything, deep in dust — whale bones, dead machines, and a box of matches that still strikes.
The Time Machine — Night 6: The Further Vision
Coming soon Night 6 — The Further Vision Beyond the forest and the dark, to the very edge of the world's evening — then home, and two flowers on a table.
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