The brilliance of this very novel can be captured by how thrilling it is, being published back in 1895 and being one of the first Sci-fi novels to come into existence. What's even more remarkable is how Wells was the first person to talk about spacetime as a fourth dimension in the first chapter of this book, explaining it very clearly, bearing in mind that this was published 20 years before Einstein published his paper about the theory of relativity. But let's not get into this more; I have already made my point. 
 Wells is one of the most influential and important Sci-fi authors so much that he is considered the father of the genre; The Time Machine in itself is a masterpiece. It was a quick, fun, eye-opening read. The story itself is not just about time travel, science and the fourth dimension. It's about society and social classes. It's about human evolution and the consequences of the industrial age. 800 thousand years into the future, humans evolve into two different species: The Eloi and the Murlocks, the Eloi evolving from the now aristocrats and the Murlocks evolving from the now working class. Wells addresses social classes in a visionary way. The Eloi race, not being challenged and having lost all desire towards change, became dumb, quiet, and incurious about life. The Murlocks race, taking care of the machinery that keeps the Eloi living, developed very sensitive corneas which allowed them to only live in the darkness. The Time Machine is about Wells' vision for the future, and I have to say it's a very dark vision.. But it's a realistic one after all.