Author:Herbert George Wells

H. G. Wells
(1866–1946)

H. G. Wells

Works

Scans

Novels

• The Time Machine (1895)
• The Wonderful Visit (1895)
• The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)
• The Wheels of Chance (1896) (transcription project)
• The Invisible Man (1897) (online view: magazine version 1897)
• The War of the Worlds (1898) (originally serialized 1897)
• Love and Mr. Lewisham (1899) 2nd ed. (transcription project)
• When the Sleeper Wakes (1899)
• The First Men in the Moon (1901)
• The Sea Lady (1902) (transcription project)
• Mankind in the Making (1904) (transcription project)
• The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth (1904) (transcription project)
• Kipps (1905)
• A Modern Utopia (1905) (transcription project) (Atlantic Edition) (transcription project)
• In the Days of the Comet (1906) (transcription project)
• The War in the Air (1908)
• Tono-Bungay (1909) (transcription project)
• Ann Veronica (1909) (transcription project)
• The Sleeper Awakes (1899, rewritten 1910)
• The History of Mr. Polly (1910) (transcription project)
• The New Machiavelli (1911) (transcription project)
• Marriage (1912) (transcription project)
• The Passionate Friends (1913) (transcription project)
• The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914) (transcription project)
• The World Set Free (1914)
• Bealby: A Holiday (1915) (transcription project)
• Boon (1915) (as Reginald Bliss) (transcription project) (Atlantic Edition) (transcription project)
• The Research Magnificent (1915) (transcription project)
• Mr Britling Sees It Through (1916) [1] (transcription project)
• The Soul of a Bishop (1917)
• Joan and Peter: The Story of an Education (1918)
• The Undying Fire (1919) (transcription project) (Atlantic Edition} (transcription project)
• The Secret Places of the Heart (1922) (transcription project)
• Men Like Gods (1923) (transcription project)
• The Dream (1924) (transcription project)
• Christina Alberta's Father (1925) [2]
• The World of William Clissold (1926) (transcription project)
• Meanwhile (1927)
• Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island (1928) Likely In Copyright
• The Autocracy of Mr. Parham (1930) Likely In Copyright (Project Gutenberg (Au))
• The Bulpington of Blup (1932) Likely In Copyright
• The Shape of Things to Come (1933) Likely In Copyright (Project Gutenberg (Au))
• The Croquet Player (1936) Likely In Copyright
• Brynhild (1937) Likely In Copyright
• Star Begotten (1937) Likely In Copyright
• The Camford Visitation (1937), novella Likely In Copyright
• Apropos of Dolores (1938) Likely In Copyright
• The Brothers (1938) Likely In Copyright
• The Holy Terror (1939) Likely In Copyright
• Babes in the Darkling Wood (1940) Likely In Copyright
• All Aboard for Ararat (1940) Likely In Copyright
• You Can't Be Too Careful (1941) Likely In Copyright

Short stories

• Æpyornis Island (1894)
• "The Apple", in Short Stories magazine, October 1896
• The Beautiful Suit (also called A Moonlight Fable) (1909)
• The Chronic Argonauts (1888)
• The Cone (1895)
• The Country of the Blind (1911)
• The Crystal Egg (1897)
• A Deal in Ostriches (1894)
• The Devotee Of Art (1888)
• The Diamond Maker (1894)
• The Discovery of the Future (1902) (transcription project)
• The Door in the Wall (1906)
• A Dream of Armageddon (1901) (transcription project)
• The Empire of the Ants (1905)
• A Family Elopement (1884)
• The Flowering of the Strange Orchid (1894)
• The Flying Man (1893)
• Filmer (1901)
• In the Avu Observatory (1894)
• In the Days of the Comet (pre-1907) (transcription project)
• The Jilting of Jane (1894)
• Jimmy Goggles the God (1898)
• The Lamias (1889)
• The Land Ironclads (1903)
• The Lord of the Dynamos (1894)
• The Magic Shop (1903)
• The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1898)
• Miss Winchelsea's Heart (1898) (transcription project)
• A Moth—Genus Novo (1895)
• Mr. Brisher's Treasure (1899)
• Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation (1898)
• Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland (1901)
• The New Accelerator (1901)
• The Obliterated Man (1895)
• The Plattner Story (1896)
• The Purple Pileus (1896)
• The Red Room (1896) (transcription project)
• The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes (1895)
• The Sea Raiders (1896)
• A Slip Under the Microscope (1896) (transcription project)
• The Star (1897) (transcription project)
• The Stolen Bacillus (1895)
• The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost (1902)
• The Stolen Body (1927)
• The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham (1896)
• A Tale of the Twentieth Century. For Advanced Thinkers (1887)
• The Temptation of Harringay (1895)
• Through a Window (1894)
• The Treasure in the Forest (1894)
• The Truth About Pyecraft (1903)
• The Triumphs of a Taxidermist (1894)
• Under the Knife (1896)
• The Valley of Spiders (1909) (transcription project)
• A Vision of the Past (1987)
• A Vision of Judgment (1927) (transcription project)
• Walcote (1989)

Short story collections

• The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents (1895)
• Thirty Strange Stories (1897)
• The Plattner Story and Others (1897) (transcription project)
• Certain Personal Matters (1897) (Project Gutenberg (Au))
• Tales of Space and Time (1899)
• Twelve Stories and a Dream (1903) (transcription project)
• The Country of the Blind and Other Stories (1911) (transcription project)
• The Door in the Wall and Other Stories (1911)
• An Englishman Looks at the World (1914)
• The Short Stories of H.G. Wells (1927)

Other

• Zoological Retrogression (1891)
• Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences (1895) (transcription project)
• Anticipations (1902) IA (transcription project)
• The Misery of Boots (1907) (transcription project)
• New Worlds for Old (1908)
• Will Socialism Destroy the Home? (pre-1909)
• "The Grisly Folk and Their War With Men", (Saturday Evening Post, Jan 21, 1911) article
• The Salvaging of Civilization Saturday Evening Post (transcription project) (Project Gutenberg (Au))
• Socialism and the great state (1912) (transcription project)
• Floor Games (pre-1913)
• Little Wars (1913)
• "Heroic Airmen Are Key To Victory" (Daily Mail, 9 August 1918) article
• What is Coming (1918)
• Washington and the Riddle of Peace (1922)
• The Outline of History (1920 (transcription volumes: Vol 1, Vol 2))
• A Short History of the World (transcription project)
• Mankind in the Making (Project Gutenberg (Au))
• A Modern Utopia (1905) (transcription project)
• "The Contemporary Novel", in The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 109, Issue 650 (January 1912)
• 1934 Interview with Joseph Stalin
• Crux Ansata (An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church) (1943) IA and (external scan)

The Works of H. G. Wells (Atlantic Edition)

• Volume 1 (1924)
  • A General Introduction to the Atlantic Edition
  • Preface to Volume I
  • The Time Machine
  • The Wonderful Visit
  • Other Early Fantastic Stories
• Volume 2 (1924)
  • Preface to Volume II
  • The Island of Doctor Moreau
  • The Sleeper Awakes
• Volume 3 (1924)
  • Preface
  • The Invisible Man
  • The War of the Worlds
  • A Dream of Armageddon
• Volume 4 (1924)
  • Preface
  • Anticipations
  • Locomotion and Administration
  • The Problem of the Birth Supply
  • The Case for Republicanism
  • Thought in the Modern State
  • The Discovery of the Future
  • This Misery of Boots
• Volume 5 (1924)
  • Preface
  • The Food of the Gods
  • The Sea Lady
• Volume 6 (1924)
  • Preface
  • The First Men in the Moon
  • The Euphemia Papers
  • A Slip under the Microscope
  • Miss Winchelsea's Heart
• Volume 7 (1924)
  • Preface
  • The Wheels of Chance
  • Love and Mr. Lewisham
• Volume 8 (1925) (transcription project)
  • Preface
  • Kipps
• Volume 9 (1925) (transcription project)
• Volume 10 (1925) (transcription project)
• Volume 11 (1925) (transcription project)
• Volume 12 (1925) (transcription project)
• Volume 13 (1925) (transcription project)
• Volume 14 (1925) (transcription project)
• Volume 15 (1925) (transcription project)
• Volume 16 (1926) (transcription project)
• Volume 17 (1926) (transcription project)
• Volume 18 (1926) (transcription project)
• Volume 19 (1926) (transcription project)
• Volume 20 (1926) (transcription project)
• Volume 21 (1926) (transcription project)
• Volume 22 (1927) (transcription project)
• Volume 23 (1927) (transcription project)
• Volume 24 (1927) (transcription project)
• Volume 25 (1927) (transcription project)
• Volume 26 (1927) (transcription project)
• Volume 27 (1927) (transcription project)
• Volume 28 (1927) (transcription project)

Works about Wells

• "H. G. Wells" (1926), an essay by Stuart Pratt Sherman
• "Wells, Herbert George, B.Sc.," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Wells, Herbert George," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Wells, Herbert George," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Wells, Hitler and the World State" (1941) by George Orwell
• "Wells, Herbert George," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)

Parodies of Wells

• The Defossilized Plum-Pudding by Max Beerbohm
• General Cessation Day by Max Beerbohm
• Perkins and Mankind by Max Beerbohm