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Wells, H. G.



George Charles Beresford: H. G. Wells (1920)

Herbert George Wells
(1866-1946)


Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) is possibly the most influential and widely read SF author in the history of the genre. His works include The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898), and The First Men in the Moon (1901), among many others.

His Collected Stories, first published in 1927, is perhaps the best introduction to his work. Among the 63 stories included there is this one, “The Country of the Blind,” first published in 1904.



National Portrait Gallery: H. G. Wells (1911)



Select Bibliography:


    Fiction:

  1. The Time Machine (1895)

  2. The Wonderful Visit (1895)

  3. The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)

  4. The Wheels of Chance (1896)

  5. The Invisible Man (1897)

  6. The War of the Worlds (1898)

  7. When the Sleeper Wakes (1899)

  8. Love and Mr Lewisham (1900)

  9. The First Men in the Moon (1901)

  10. The Sea Lady (1902)

  11. The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth (1904)

  12. Kipps (1905)

  13. A Modern Utopia (1905)

  14. In the Days of the Comet (1906)

  15. The War in the Air (1908)

  16. Tono-Bungay (1909)

  17. Ann Veronica (1909)

  18. The History of Mr Polly (1910)

  19. The Sleeper Awakes (1910)

  20. The New Machiavelli (1911)

  21. The Country of the Blind and Other Stories (1911)

  22. Marriage (1912)

  23. The Passionate Friends (1913)

  24. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914)

  25. The World Set Free (1914)

  26. Bealby: A Holiday (1915)

  27. [as Reginald Bliss] Boon (1915)

  28. The Research Magnificent (1915)

  29. Mr Britling Sees It Through (1916)

  30. The Soul of a Bishop (1917)

  31. Joan and Peter: The Story of an Education (1918)

  32. The Undying Fire (1919)

  33. The Secret Places of the Heart (1922)

  34. Men Like Gods (1923)

  35. The Dream (1924)

  36. Christina Alberta's Father (1925)

  37. The World of William Clissold (1926)

  38. The Short Stories of H. G. Wells (1927)

  39. Meanwhile (1927)

  40. Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island (1928)

  41. The Autocracy of Mr. Parham (1930)

  42. The Bulpington of Blup (1932)

  43. The Shape of Things to Come (1933)

  44. Things to Come: A Film Story Based on the Material Contained in His History of the Future “The Shape of Things to Come.” (1936)

  45. The Croquet Player (1936)

  46. Brynhild (1937)

  47. Star Begotten: A Biological Fantasia (1937)

  48. The Camford Visitation (1937)

  49. Apropos of Dolores (1938)

  50. The Brothers (1938)

  51. The Holy Terror (1939)

  52. Babes in the Darkling Wood (1940)

  53. All Aboard for Ararat (1940)

  54. You Can't Be Too Careful (1941)

  55. The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells, ed. John Hammmond (1998)


    56. Non-fiction:

  56. Text-Book of Biology (1893)

  57. [with R. A. Gregory] Honours Physiography (1893)

  58. Certain Personal Matters (1897)

  59. Anticipations of the Reactions of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought (1901)

  60. Mankind in the Making (1903)

  61. The Future in America (1906)

  62. This Misery of Boots (1907)

  63. Will Socialism Destroy the Home? (1907)

  64. New Worlds for Old (1908)

  65. First and Last Things (1908)

  66. Floor Games (1911)

  67. The Great State (1912)

  68. Great Thoughts From H. G. Wells (1912)

  69. Thoughts From H. G. Wells (1912)

  70. Little Wars (1913)

  71. The War That Will End War (1914)

  72. An Englishman Looks at the World (1914)

  73. The War and Socialism (1915)

  74. The Peace of the World (1915)

  75. What is Coming? (1916)

  76. [as D. P.] The Elements of Reconstruction (1916)

  77. God the Invisible King (1917)

  78. War and the Future (1917)

  79. Introduction to Nocturne (1917)

  80. In the Fourth Year (1918)

  81. [with Viscount Edward Grey, Lionel Curtis, William Archer, H. Wickham Steed, A. E. Zimmern, J. A. Spender, Viscount Bryce & Gilbert Murray] The Idea of a League of Nations (1919)

  82. [with Viscount Edward Grey, Lionel Curtis, William Archer, H. Wickham Steed, A. E. Zimmern, J. A. Spender, Viscount Bryce & Gilbert Murray] The Way to the League of Nations (1919)

  83. The Outline of History (1920)

  84. Russia in the Shadows (1920)

  85. [with Arnold Bennett & Grant Overton] Frank Swinnerton (1920)

  86. The Salvaging of Civilization (1921)

  87. A Short History of the World (1922)

  88. Washington and the Hope of Peace (1922)

  89. Socialism and the Scientific Motive (1923)

  90. The Story of a Great Schoolmaster: Being a Plain Account of the Life and Ideas of Sanderson of Oundle (1924)

  91. A Year of Prophesying (1925)

  92. A Short History of Mankind (1925)

  93. Mr. Belloc Objects to "The Outline of History" (1926)

  94. Wells' Social Anticipations (1927)

  95. The Way the World is Going (1928)

  96. The Book of Catherine Wells (1928)

  97. The Open Conspiracy (1928)

  98. [with Julian S. Huxley & G. P. Wells] The Science of Life (1930)

  99. Divorce as I See It (1930)

  100. Points of View (1930)

  101. The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind (1931)

  102. The New Russia (1931)

  103. Selections From the Early Prose Works of H. G. Wells (1931)

  104. What Should be Done — Now: A Memorandum on the World Situation (1932)

  105. After Democracy (1932)

  106. [with J. V. Stalin] Marxism vs Liberalism (1934)

  107. Experiment in Autobiography (1934)

  108. The New America: The New World (1935)

  109. The Anatomy of Frustration (1936)

  110. World Brain (1938)

  111. The Fate of Homo Sapiens (1939)

  112. The New World Order (1939)

  113. Travels of a Republican Radical in Search of Hot Water (1939)

  114. The Common Sense of War and Peace (1940)

  115. The Rights of Man (1940)

  116. The Pocket History of the World (1941)

  117. Guide to the New World (1941)

  118. The Outlook for Homo Sapiens (1942)

  119. The Conquest of Time (1942)

  120. [with Lev Uspensky] Modern Russian and English Revolutionaries (1942)

  121. Phoenix: A Summary of the Inescapable Conditions of World Reorganization (1942)

  122. Crux Ansata: An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church (1943)

  123. '42 to '44: A Contemporary Memoir (1944)

  124. [with J. B. S. Haldane & Julian S. Huxley] Reshaping Man's Heritage (1944)

  125. The Happy Turning (1945)

  126. Mind at the End of Its Tether (1945)

  127. Early Writings in Science and Science Fiction (1975)

    128. Secondary:

  128. Bergonzi, Bernard. The Early H. G. Wells: A Study of the Scientific Romances. Manchester, 1961.

  129. Dickson, Lovat. H. G. Wells: His Turbulent Life and Times. 1969. London: Readers Union Limited / Macmillan and Company Limited, 1971.

  130. Ray, Gordon N. H. G. Wells & Rebecca West. 1974. London: Macmillan London Limited, 1974.

  131. West, Anthony. H. G. Wells: Aspects of a Life. 1984. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985.




Anthony West: H. G. Wells: Aspects of a Life (1984)


Homepages & Online Information:

Bibliography

The H. G. Wells Society

Wikipedia entry




Odhams: H. G. Wells Collection (1930)


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