The Time-Traveler invites a few of his friends and explains his theory about the 4th dimension and time travel. He shows them a prototype of his time machine and the nearly finished one in his lab.
The next time the narrator is invited to the Time-Travelers house he shows up very late and tells the assembled men a strange story about travelling to 802.701A.D. seeing the (presumed) evolutions of men and the adventures he had to face to get his vanished time machine back.

I'm not always a fan of Wells works, but I though this one was quite enjoyable. The science and logic that he uses for the 4th dimension is actually pretty much correct, and most of the story seemed pretty sensible.

Even though this is (one of) the first time travel stories, his vision of this far future hasn't yet been done to death in popular culture, so it actually felt still quite fresh.
I liked the slow start on the adventure, his study of the new men he finds (Eloi) who are weak, small and happy, but dumb.
And while the Time-Traveler (there is never a name given, pretty much everyone goes by their occupation) never finds out what happened to the world in all that time, he speculates a lot (a lot of it admittedly falsely too) on the social and economical changes that lead to the state of things.
I though the moralizing a little tiring after a while and the implied class split quite condescending from a modern perspective (rich people : dumb and weak, workers: brutal and debased).
I thought the exploration and adventure parts where done nicely with a good amount of excitement going on, though the end felt a little anticlimactic, especially since he adds a trip into the even further future to near the end of the world. I have to admit, I'm not quite sure what picture he was trying to paint there, but maybe it has no deeper meaning.

In the end I thought it was a nice, fun story.