A Victorian scientist develops a time machine and travels to the year
802,171 AD. There he finds the meek, child-like Eloi who live in fear of
the underground-dwelling Morlocks. When his time machine goes missing,
the Traveller faces a fight to enter the Morlocks' domain and return to
his own time.
THE TIME MACHINE remains one of the cornerstones of science-fiction
literature and has proved hugely influential.