Herbert George Wells, 1866-1946

Works

Novels

• The Time Machine [1896]
• The Wonderful Visit [1895]
• The Island of Doctor Moreau [1896]
• Wheels of Chance; a bicycling idyll [1896]
• The Invisible Man [1897]
• The War of the Worlds [1898]
• When the Sleeper Wakes [1899]
• Love and Mr Lewisham [1900]
• The First Men In The Moon [1901]
• The Sea Lady : A Tissue of Moonshine ; illustrated by Lewis Christopher Edward Baumer [1902]
• The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth [1904]
• Kipps [1905]
• In the Days of the Comet [1906]
• The War in the Air [1908]
• Tono Bungay [1909]
• Ann Veronica, a modern love story [1909]
• The History of Mr Polly [1910]
• 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]
• Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; : Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times [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]
• The Dream [1924]
• Christina Alberta's Father [1925]
• The World of William Clissold [1926]
• Meanwhile [1927]
• Mr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island [1928]
• The Adventures of Tommy (1929)
• The King Who Was a King [1929]
• The Autocracy of Mr. Parham [1930]
• The Bulpington of Blup [1932]
• The Shape of Things to Come [1933]
• The Croquet Player [1936]
• Brynhild [1937]
• Star-Begotten [1937]
• The Camford Visitation [1937]
• Apropos of Dolores [1938]
• The Brothers [1938]
• The Holy Terror [1939]
• Babes In The Darkling Woods [1940]
• All Aboard for Ararat [1940]
• You can't be too careful : a sample of life — 1901–1951 [1941]

Short stories

• The Stolen Bacillus and other incidents [1895]
  1. The Stolen Bacillus
  2. The Flowering of the Strange Orchid
  3. In the Avu Observatory
  4. The Triumphs of a Taxidermist
  5. A Deal in Ostriches
  6. Through a Window
  7. The Temptation of Harringay
  8. The Flying Man
  9. The Diamond Maker
  10. Aepyornis Island
  11. The Remarkable Case of Davidson’s Eyes
  12. The Lord of the Dynamos
  13. The Hammerpond Park Burglary
  14. A Moth — Genus Novo
  15. The Treasure in the Forest
• The Plattner Story and others [1897]
  • "The Plattner Story" [1896]
  • "The Argonauts of the Air" [1895]
  • "The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham" [1896]
  • "In the Abyss" [1896]
  • "The Apple" [1896]
  • "Under the Knife" [1896]
  • "The Sea-Raiders" [1896]
  • "Pollock and the Porroh Man" [1895]
  • "The Red Room" [1896]
  • "The Cone" [1895]
  • "The Purple Pileus" [1896]
  • "The Jilting of Jane" [1894]
  • "In the Modern Vein: an unsympathetic love story" [aka A Bardlet's Romance] [1894]
  • "A Catastrophe" [1895]
  • "The Lost Inheritance" [1897]
  • "The Sad Story of a Dramatic Critic"
  • "A Slip Under the Microscope" [1896]
• Tales of Space and Time [1899]
  1. "The Crystal Egg" [The New Review, May 1897]
  2. "The Star" [The Graphic, December, 1897]
  3. "A Story of the Stone Age" [The Idler, May-September 1897]
  4. "A Story of the Days To Come" [The Pall Mall Magazine, June-October 1897]
  5. "The Man Who Could Work Miracles" [Illustrated London News, July 1898]
• Twelve Stories and a Dream [1903]
  1. Filmer [1901]
  2. The Magic Shop
  3. The Valley of Spiders
  4. The Truth About Pyecraft
  5. Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland [1903]
  6. The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost [1902]
  7. Jimmy Goggles the God
  8. The New Accelerator
  9. Mr. Ledbetter’s Vacation [1898]
  10. The Stolen Body [1898]
  11. Mr. Brisher’s Treasure [1899]
  12. Miss Winchelsea’s Heart
  13. A Dream of Armageddon
• The Door in the Wall, and other stories [1911]
  1. The Door in the Wall
  2. The Star
  3. A Dream of Armageddon
  4. The Cone
  5. A Moonlight Fable
  6. The Diamond Maker [1894]
  7. The Lord of the Dynamos [1894]
  8. The Country of the Blind
• The Country of the Blind, and other stories [1911]
  1. The Jilting of Jane [1894]
  2. The Cone [1895]
  3. The Stolen Bacillus [1894]
  4. The Flowering of the Strange Orchid [aka The Strange Orchid] [1894]
  5. In the Avu Observatory [1894]
  6. Æpyornis Island [1894]
  7. The Remarkable Case of Davidson’s Eyes [aka The Story of Davidson's Eyes] [1895]
  8. The Lord of the Dynamos [1894]
  9. The Moth [aka A Moth - Genus Novo] [1895]
  10. The Treasure in the Forest [1894]
  11. The Story of the Late Mr Elvesham [1896]
  12. Under the Knife [aka Slip Under the Knife] [1896]
  13. The Sea Raiders [1896]
  14. The Obliterated Man [1911]
  15. The Plattner Story [1896]
  16. The Red Room [1896]
  17. The Purple Pileus [1896]
  18. A Slip Under the Microscope [1896]
  19. The Crystal Egg [1897]
  20. The Star [1897]
  21. The Man Who Could Work Miracles.
  22. A Vision of Judgment [1899]
  23. Jimmy Goggles the God [1898]
  24. Miss Winchelsea’s Heart [1898]
  25. A Dream of Armageddon [1901]
  26. The Valley of the Spiders [1903]
  27. The New Accelerator [1901]
  28. The Truth About Pyecraft [1903]
  29. The Magic Shop [1903]
  30. The Empire of the Ants [1905]
  31. The Door in the Wall [1906]
  32. The Country of the Blind [1904]
  33. The Beautiful Suit [aka A Moonlight Fable] [1909]
• The Short Stories of H. G. Wells
  • 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]
  • The Devotee of Art [1888]
  • The Flying Man [aka The Advent of the Flying Man] [1893]
  • A Deal in Ostriches [1894]
  • The Final Men [1894]
  • The Hammerpond Park Burglary [1894]
  • How Gabriel Became Thompson [1894]
  • The Man With a Nose [1894]
  • A Misunderstood Artist [1894]
  • The Thing in No. 7 [1894]
  • Through a Window [aka At a Window] [1894]
  • The Thumbmark [1894]
  • The Triumphs of a Taxidermist [1894]
  • How Pingwell Was Routed [1895]
  • Le Mari Terrible [1895]
  • Our Little Neighbour [1895]
  • The Reconciliation [aka The Bulla] [1895]
  • The Temptation of Harringay [1895]
  • Wayde's Essence [1895]
  • The Rajah's Treasure [1896]
  • Le Mari Terrible [1897]
  • The Ghost of Fear [1897]
  • Mr Marshall's Doppelganger [1897]
  • A Perfect Gentleman on Wheels [1897]
  • The Presence by the Fire [1897]
  • Walcote [1898]
  • The Loyalty of Esau Common [1902]
  • The Land Ironclads [1903]
  • Little Mother Up the Morderberg [1910]
  • My First Aeroplane [1910]
  • The Story of the Last Trump [1915]
  • The Wild Asses of the Devil [1915]
  • Peter Learns Arithmetic [1918]
  • The Grisly Folk [1921]
  • The Pearl of Love [1924]
  • The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper [1932]
  • Answer to Prayer [1937]
  • The Country of the Blind [revised] [1939]

Non-Fiction

• Mankind in the Making [1903]
• A Modern Utopia [1905]
• The Future in America: A Search After Realities ... [1907]
• This Misery of Boots [1908]
• Will Socialism Destroy the Home? [1907]
• First and Last Things [1908]
• Floor Games; a companion volume to "Little Wars" [1911]
• The Great State [1912]
• Great Thoughts From H. G. Wells [1912]
• Thoughts From H. G. Wells [1912]
• Little Wars; a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books [1913]
• New Worlds For Old : A Plain Account of Modern Socialism [1908]
• The War That Will End War [1914]
• An Englishman Looks at the World : Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks ... [1914]
• The War and Socialism [1915]
• The Peace of the World [1915]
• What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War [1916]
• The Elements of Reconstruction [1916] – published under the pseudonym D. P.
• God the Invisible King [1917]
• War and the future : 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
• Russia in the Shadows [1920]
• Frank Swinnerton: Personal Sketches [1920] – with Arnold Bennett, Grant Overton
• The Salvaging of Civilization [1921]
• The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind [1922]
  v.1; v.2; v.3; v.4
• 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]
• What are we to do with our lives? (a.k.a. The Open Conspiracy) [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