Herbert George Wells (1866-1946)

Biographical note

English novelist and social commentator, chiefly known as a founder of the science fiction genre.

His early novels, called "scientific romances", invented a number of themes now classic in science fiction in such works as The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds and are often thought of as being influenced by the works of Jules Verne. He also wrote other, non-fantastic novels which have received critical acclaim, including the satire on Edwardian advertising Tono-Bungay and Kipps.

Wells also wrote non-fiction. His classic two-volume work The Outline of History (1920) set a new standard and direction for popularised scholarship.

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Works

Novels

The Time Machine [1896] [ read | print | download ]
The Wonderful Visit [1895]
The Island of Doctor Moreau [1896] [ read | print | download ]
Wheels of Chance; a bicycling idyll [1896] [ read | print | download ]
The Invisible Man [1897] [ read | print | download ]
A Story of the Stone Age [1897] [ read | print | download ]
A Story of the Days To Come [1897] [ read | print | download ]
The War of the Worlds [1898] [ read | print | download ]
When the Sleeper Wakes [1899] [ read | print | download ]
Love and Mr Lewisham [1900] [ read | print | download ]
The First Men In The Moon [1901] [ read | print | download ]
The Sea Lady [1902]
The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth [1904] [ read | print | download ]
Kipps [1905] [ read | print | download ]
In the Days of the Comet [1906] [ read | print | download ]
The War in the Air [1908] [ read | print | download ]
Tono Bungay [1909] [ read | print | download ]
Ann Veronica, a modern love story [1909] [ read | print | download ]
The History of Mr Polly [1910] [ read | print | download ]
The Sleeper Awakes [1910 – revised edition of When the Sleeper Awakes]
The New Machiavelli [1911]
Marriage [1912]
The Passionate Friends [1913]
The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman [1914]
The World Set Free [1914]
Bealby: A Holiday [1915]
The Research Magnificent [1915]
Mr Britling Sees it Through [1916]
The Soul of a Bishop [1917]
God The Invisible King [1917]
Joan and Peter: A Story of an Education [1918]
The Undying Fire [1919]
The Secret Places of the Heart [1922]
Men Like Gods [1923] [ read | print | download ]
The Dream [1924]
Christina Alberta's Father [1925]
The World of William Clissold [1926]
Meanwhile [1927]
Mr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island [1928]
The King Who Was a King [1929]
The Autocracy of Mr. Parham [1930] [ read | print | download ]
The Bulpington of Blup [1932]
The Shape of Things to Come [1933] [ read | print | download ]
The Croquet Player [1936]
Brynhild [1937]
Star-Begotten [1937] [ read | print | download ]
The Camford Visitation [1937]
Apropos of Dolores [1938]
The Brothers [1938]
The Holy Terror [1939]
Babes in the Darkling Wood [1940]
All Aboard for Ararat [1940]
You Can't Be Too Careful [1941]

Collections

The Stolen Bacillus and other incidents [1895]
Twelve Stories and a Dream [1903] [ read | print | download ]
The Door in the Wall, and other stories [1911] [ read | print | download ]
The Country of the Blind, and other stories [1911] [ read | print | download ]
The Short Stories of H. G. Wells [ read | print | download ]

Short Stories

A Family Elopement [1884]
A Tale of the Twentieth Century [1887]
A Talk with Gryllotalpa [1887] – published under the pseudonym Septimus Browne
A Vision of the Past [1887]
The Chronic Argonauts [1888] [read]
The Devotee of Art [1888]
The Flying Man [aka The Advent of the Flying Man] [1893] [read]
Æpyornis Island [1894] [read]
A Deal in Ostriches [1894] [read]
The Diamond Maker [1894] [read]
The Final Men [1894]
The Flowering of the Strange Orchid [aka The Strange Orchid] [1894] [read]
The Hammerpond Park Burglary [1894] [read]
The Lord of the Dynamos [1894] [read]
How Gabriel Became Thompson [1894]
In the Avu Observatory [1894] [read]
In the Modern Vein: An Unsympathetic Love Story [aka A Bardlet's Romance] [1894] [read]
The Jilting of Jane [1894] [read]
The Lord of the Dynamos [1894] [read]
The Man With a Nose [1894]
A Misunderstood Artist [1894]
The Stolen Bacillus [1894] [read]
The Thing in No. 7 [1894]
Through a Window [aka At a Window] [1894] [read]
The Thumbmark [1894]
The Treasure in the Forest [1894] [read]
The Triumphs of a Taxidermist [1894] [read]
The Argonauts of the Air [1895] [read]
A Catastrophe [1895] [read]
The Cone [1895] [read]
How Pingwell Was Routed [1895]
Le Mari Terrible [1895]
The Moth [aka A Moth - Genus Novo] [1895] [read]
Our Little Neighbour [1895]
Pollock and the Porroh Man [1895] [read]
The Reconciliation [aka The Bulla] [1895] [read]
The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes [aka The Story of Davidson's Eyes] [1895] [read]
The Temptation of Harringay [1895] [read]
Wayde's Essence [1895]
The Apple [1896] [read]
In the Abyss [1896] [read]
The Plattner Story [1896] [read]
The Purple Pileus [1896] [read]
The Rajah's Treasure [1896]
The Red Room [1896] [read]
The Sea Raiders [1896] [read]
A Slip Under the Microscope [1896] [read]
The Story of the Late Mr Elvesham [1896] [read]
Under the Knife [aka Slip Under the Knife] [1896] [read]
The Crystal Egg [1897] [read]
Le Mari Terrible [1897]
The Ghost of Fear [1897]
The Lost Inheritance [1897] [read]
Mr Marshall's Doppelganger [1897]
A Perfect Gentleman on Wheels [1897]
The Presence by the Fire [1897]
The Star [1897] [read]
A Story of the Days To Come [1897] [read]
A Story of the Stone Age [aka Stories of the Stone Age] [1897] [read]
Jimmy Goggles the God [1898] [read]
The Man Who Could Work Miracles [1898] [ read | download ]
Miss Winchelsea's Heart [1898] [read]
Mr. Leadbetter's Vacation [1898] [read]
The Stolen Body [1898] [read]
Walcote [1898]
Mr Brisher's Treasure [1899] [read]
A Vision of Judgment [1899] [read]
A Dream of Armageddon [1901] [read]
Filmer [1901] [read]
The New Accelerator [1901] [read]
The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost [1902] [read]
The Loyalty of Esau Common [1902]
The Land Ironclads [1903] [read]
Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland [1903] [read]
The Magic Shop [1903] [read]
The Truth About Pyecraft [1903] [read]
The Valley of the Spiders [1903] [read]
The Country of the Blind [1904] [read]
The Empire of the Ants [1905] [read]
The Door in the Wall [1906] [read]
The Beautiful Suit [aka A Moonlight Fable] [1909] [read]
Little Mother Up the Morderberg [1910] [read]
My First Aeroplane [1910] [read]
The Obliterated Man [1911] [read]
The Sad Story of a Dramatic Critic [1915] [read]
The Story of the Last Trump [1915] [read]
The Wild Asses of the Devil [1915] [read]
Peter Learns Arithmetic [1918]
The Grisly Folk [1921] [read]
The Pearl of Love [1924] [read]
The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper [1932] [read]
Answer to Prayer [1937]
The Country of the Blind [revised] [1939]

Non-Fiction

Mankind in the Making [1903] [ read | download ]
A Modern Utopia [1905] [ read | print | download ]
The Future in America: A Search After Realities [1906]
This Misery of Boots [1907]
Will Socialism Destroy the Home? [1907]
First and Last Things [1908]
Floor Games [1911]
The Great State [1912]
Great Thoughts From H. G. Wells [1912]
Thoughts From H. G. Wells [1912]
Little Wars [1913]
New Worlds for Old [1913]
The War That Will End War [1914]
An Englishman Looks at the World [1914]
The War and Socialism [1915]
The Peace of the World [1915]
What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War [1916]
What are we to do with our lives?
The Elements of Reconstruction [1916] – published under the pseudonym D. P.
God the Invisible King [1917]
War and the Future [aka Italy, France and Britain at War] (1917)
Introduction to Nocturne [1917]
In The Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace [1918]
The Idea of a League of Nations [1919] – with Viscount Edward Grey, Lionel Curtis, William Archer, H. Wickham Steed, A. E. Zimmern, J. A. Spender, Viscount Bryce and Gilbert Murray
The Way to the League of Nations [1919] – with Viscount Edward Grey, Lionel Curtis, William Archer, H. Wickham Steed, A. E. Zimmern, J. A. Spender, Viscount Bryce and Gilbert Murray
The Outline of History [1920]
Russia in the Shadows [1920]
Frank Swinnerton [1920] – with Arnold Bennett, Grant Overton
The Salvaging of Civilization [1921]
A Short History of the World [1922]
Washington and the Hope of Peace [aka "Washington and the Riddle of Peace"] (1922)
Socialism and the Scientific Motive [1923]
The Story of a Great Schoolmaster: Being a Plain Account of the Life and Ideas of Sanderson of Oundle [1924] – a biography of Frederick William Sanderson
A Year of Prophesying [1925]
A Short History of Mankind [1925]
Mr. Belloc Objects to the "Outline of History" [1926]
Wells' Social Anticipations [1927]
The Way the World is Going [1928]
The Book of Catherine Wells [1928]
The Open Conspiracy [aka What Are We To Do With Our Lives?] (1928)
The Science of Life [1930] – with Julian S. Huxley, G. P. Wells
Divorce as I See It [1930]
Points of View [1930]
The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind [1931]
The New Russia [1931]
Selections From the Early Prose Works of H. G. Wells [1931]
After Democracy [1932]
An Experiment in Autobiography [1934]
The New America: The New World [1935]
The Anatomy of Frustration [1936]
World Brain [1938]
The Fate of Homo Sapiens [aka The Fate Of Man] (1939)
The New World Order [1939]
Travels of a Republican Radical in Search of Hot Water [1939]
The Common Sense of War and Peace [1940]
The Rights of Man [1940]
The Pocket History of the World [1941]
Guide to the New World [1941]
The Outlook for Homo Sapiens [1942]
The Conquest of Time [1942]
Modern Russian and English Revolutionaries [1942] – with Lev Uspensky
Phoenix: A Summary of the Inescapable Conditions of World Reorganization [1942]
Crux Ansata: An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church [1943]
'42 to '44: A Contemporary Memoir [1944]
Reshaping Man's Heritage [1944] – with J. B. S. Haldane, Julian S. Huxley
The Happy Turning [1945]
Mind at the End of its Tether [1945]
Marxism vs Liberalism [1945] – with J. V. Stalin