The Time Machine (S-429)

The Time Traveller, an English scientist and gentleman inventor living in Richmond, Surrey, recounts the Traveller’s lecture that time is simply a fourth dimension, and his demonstration of a tabletop model machine for traveling through it. He reveals that he has built a machine capable of carrying a person, and returns at dinner the following week to recount a remarkable tale, becoming the new narrator. In the new narrative, the Time Traveller tests his device with a journey that takes him to 802701 A.D., where he meets the Eloi, a society of small, elegant, childlike adults. They live in small communities within large and futuristic yet slowly deteriorating buildings, doing no work and having a frugivorous diet. When he is in the field next, he realizes that his machine has been moved; to where he cannot figure out..