There, he's immobilised by an "Apathy-Gas" and exposed (along with his interrogators) to a truth gas where they interrogate him on where he got his time machine, and reveal to him that time travel's been banned for centuries because people kept getting lost in time, and that the world is divided into Northland and Southland (with England eventually becoming part of Northland), bitterly locked in periodic war. The illustrations for this chapter are ( (Great_Illustrated_Classics)). Bogart's amendments is an entire chapter (Chapter 13 in my edition), "The Golden Age of Science" in which the Time Traveller stops 300 years after the 19th century in search of something useful to bring back to the present day unlike what he found in the 803rd Century. Overall I doubt it was a good adaptation of the book given how much would have had to be cut out but what's singular about Ms. Vogel, published in 1987 as the title said-so, some years before I was born, and close to the end of the Cold War. My parents bought a whole bunch of Moby Books' Illustrated Classic Editions for me to pick up English when I was young, including " The Time Machine", abridged by Shirley Bogart and edited by Malvina G.
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