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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