About the author

  Novels by the author

The Invisible Man

The Island of Doctor Moreau

The Time Machine

The War of the Worlds

  Short stories by the author

The Door in the Wall and Other Stories

Twelve Stories and a Dream

  Study guides from SparkNotes

The Time Machine

  Quotations

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.