A
science fiction novel by
H.G. Wells in which a man goes into the
future to the year 802,701 and finds that mankind has evolved into two distinct groups - the
Eloi, who are tall, thin, and live above ground in relative bliss, and the
Morlocks, who are short, blind, and live deep within the earth in general misery.
The entire
novel is a
Marxist criticism of
capitalism (the whole "rich get richer" spiel), and it contains some great observations about man's
triumph over
Nature and the
powers and
pitfalls of
science. It leads one to think that Wells wrote this using the
Communist Manifesto and Darwin's
Origin Of Species as reference materials.
Luckily the book is now in public domain, and it isn't very long, making it an ideal candidate for E2 assimilation.
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Epilogue