This is only about the 2nd part of the book, "The Time Machine": I read it and I have to say, I liked the 1960 film much better. It's a pity that H.G. Wells didn't describe what the Time Traveller was experiencing while travelling through time until he arrived in 802,701 (or was it 801,702?). Otherwise, the story is of course a classic and very well-written and exciting. It occurred to me, while reading, that in those days' English the word "because" must have been used much More...