Project Gutenberg #35
The Time Machine
H. G. Wells
1895Wells's foundational time-travel novella, prepared section by section from Project Gutenberg plaintext.
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Chapter 4 — IV. Time Travelling Central question What does the Traveller actually find in the far future? Main argument He arrives in a beautiful but shallow world inhabited by the Eloi, who seem childlike, idle,...
in a purple tunic, girdled at the waist with a leather belt.
Sandals or buskins—I could not clearly distinguish which—were on his
feet; his legs were bare to the knees, and his head was bare. Noticing
that, I noticed for the first time how warm the air was.
“He struck me as being a very beautiful and graceful creature, but
indescribably frail. His flushed face reminded me of the more beautiful
kind of consumptive—that hectic beauty of which we used to hear so
much. At the sight of him I suddenly regained confidence. I took my
hands from the machine.