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The Panchronicon

by Harold Steele MacKaye

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About This Book

Time traveler from 2582 is injured in late nineteenth century New Hampshire, dies of pneumonia and leaves his machine in the hands of the town drunk. The tale concerns the complications of returning to 1876 to invent important devices and become wealthy.

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