Prelude to Eternity-A Romance of the First Time Machine

In an early nineteenth-century England in which there never was a
Restoration after Cromwell's Revolution, a party of guests travels to a
house-party in Yorkshire to witness the demonstration of the world's
first time machine. Michael Laurel, a young painter, is in love with
Cecilia Langstrade, and is avid to know whether his feelings are
reciprocated-but as he travels to his appointment with destiny, he
realizes that he might have a rival in Quentin Hope, an amateur
philosopher. Gradually, Michael comes to realize that the entire
future of the world might be at stake-and its entire past as well-and
that no one who has been invited to Langstrade Hall is irrelevant to the
impending catastrophe. But what can he, a mere painter, possibly do to
make a difference to the fate of the universe within the labyrinth of
time?

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