Inglês · nível B2 (Intermediário avançado) · Ficção científica
The Time Machine
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I · Introduction
The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. His grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his usually pale face was flushed and animated. The fire burnt brightly, and the soft radiance of the incandescent lights in the lilies of silver caught the bubbles that flashed and passed in our glasses. Our chairs, being his patents, embraced and caressed us rather than submitted to be sat upon, and there was that luxurious after-dinner atmosphere, when thought runs gracefully free of the trammels of precision. And he put it to us in this way—marking the points with a lean forefinger—as we sat and lazily admired his earnestness over this new paradox (as we thought it) and his fecundity. “You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a…
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Textos deste livro
- I · Introduction 9 min
- II · The Machine 7 min
- III · The Time Traveller Returns 11 min
- IV · Time Travelling 12 min
- V · In the Golden Age 9 min
- VI · The Sunset of Mankind 12 min
- VII · A Sudden Shock 13 min
- VIII · Explanation (1) 11 min
- VIII · Explanation (2) 13 min
- IX · The Morlocks 12 min
- X · When Night Came 14 min
- XI · The Palace of Green Porcelain 14 min
- XII · In the Darkness 15 min
- XIII · The Trap of the White Sphinx 6 min
- XIV · The Further Vision 11 min
- XV · The Time Traveller’s Return 3 min
- XVI · After the Story – Epilogue 9 min
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