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The Time TravellerAn inventive host who argues that a machine can travel through time and claims experimental proof.First seen in chapter 1
The PsychologistA guest who questions whether people can move through time.First seen in chapter 1
The Medical ManA guest who questions the Time Traveller’s argument about movement through time.First seen in chapter 1
FilbyA guest who rejects the Time Traveller’s argument about time.First seen in chapter 1
The narratorA listener who recalls doubts about the machine and attends the Time Traveller’s next dinner gathering.First seen in chapter 3
EloiSmall, gentle people who welcome the traveller with flowers and a meal of fruit.First seen in chapter 5
WeenaA surface dweller whom the traveler rescues from drowning, gaining her affection and companionship.First seen in chapter 8
MorlocksPale human creatures who live below ground and share the world with the surface dwellers.First seen in chapter 8

Chapter 1
The Time Traveller argues that time is a fourth dimension and claims experimental proof of travel through it.
Chapter 2
A small machine disappears when the Psychologist presses its lever, and the Time Traveller reveals a larger machine.
Chapter 3
The Time Traveller arrives dirty and injured, eats dinner, and asks his skeptical guests to hear his story.
Chapter 4
The traveller speeds through changing days and seasons before stopping in an unfamiliar garden during a hailstorm.
Chapter 5
Small, friendly people welcome the traveller with flowers and fruit, but their simple questions disappoint him.
Chapter 6
The traveller explores ruins and communal buildings, proposing an explanation of human decline that he explicitly calls mistaken.
Chapter 7
The traveller discovers his machine is missing and finds signs suggesting it is inside the sphinx’s pedestal.
Chapter 8
The traveler rescues Weena and discovers that the surface dwellers share their world with humans living underground.
Chapter 9
The narrator descends into the Morlocks’ world, finds machinery and meat, and escapes their attacks without any matches.
Chapter 10
The Time Traveller leads Weena toward the Palace of Green Porcelain and concludes that the Morlocks eat the Eloi.
Chapter 11
Inside the ruined museum, the narrator finds an iron bar, working matches, and camphor.
Chapter 12
Morlocks attack in the woods, a forest fire spreads, and Weena disappears.
Chapter 13
The narrator enters the sphinx’s open pedestal, fights the Morlocks, and escapes on his recovered machine.
Chapter 14
The traveller moves farther into the future, encountering giant crab-like creatures and an almost lifeless, freezing earth.
Chapter 15
The Time Traveller reverses through time and returns to his laboratory, where familiar surroundings make him question his experience.
Chapter 16
The Time Traveller prepares another journey, disappears with his machine, and has not returned after three years.
Chapter 17
The narrator imagines possible destinations for the absent traveller and finds comfort in two dried flowers.
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