-
The Time Traveler talks about his theories of time travel and demontrates his model time machine at a dinner party.
-
The Time Traveler has another dinner party and invites a group of men (including the narrator) and tells what happened when he time traveled.
-
The Time Traveler arrives in the year 802701. He meets some creatures called the Eloi and explores the area. He loses the time machine and gets scared.
-
The Time Traveler thinks that the time machine is in a white sphinx that he saw the first day. He tries to be friends with the Eloi and hopes to figure out how to get the time machine back.
-
The Time Traveler finds some strange creatures and saves a Eloi named Weena from drowning. He befriends her.
-
The Time Traveler discovers a morlock, which is a strange looking creature, He watches it go escape down a mysterious well.
-
The Time Traveler doesn't have enough courage to go down the well yet so he decides to go explore some more. He finds the Palace of Green Porcelain.
-
The Time Traveler finally decides to go down the well. He finds the Morlocks and learn they are carnivous. He escapes them but faints.
-
The Time Traveler goes back to the Palace to look for weapons to defend himself and Weena from the morlocks. It gets dark when they are in a forest, he starts a fire but then the morlocks attack. He fights them off and then goes back to asleep. He awakes and morlocks are attacking, Weena is gone, and a huge forest fire is approaching. The Time Traveler decides to run
-
The Time Traveler goes back to the white sphinx and gets the time machine. He goes foward in time and sees a huge crab monster. He escapes the crab and goes in the future again. He sees a strange black rock looking creature and then goes back in time to tell his story.
