H.G. Wells Books In Order

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Time Machine (1895)
  2. The Wonderful Visit (1895)
  3. The Island of Dr. 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 / The Sleeper Awakes (1899)
  8. Love and Mr. Lewisham (1899)
  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 (1911)
  20. The New Machiavelli (1911)
  21. Marriage (1912)
  22. The Passionate Friends (1913)
  23. The World Set Free (1914)
  24. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914)
  25. Bealby: A Holiday (1915)
  26. The Research Magnificent (1915)
  27. Boon, the Mind of the Race (As: Reginald Bliss) (1915)
  28. Boon (1915)
  29. Mr. Britling Sees It Through (1916)
  30. The Soul of a Bishop (1917)
  31. Joan and Peter: A 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. Meanwhile the Picture of a Lady (1927)
  39. Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island (1928)
  40. The King Who Was a King (1929)
  41. Autocracy of Mr. Parham (1930)
  42. Bulpington of Blup (1930)
  43. The Shape of Things to Come (1933)
  44. The Croquet Player (1936)
  45. Star Begotten (1937)
  46. The Camford Visitation (1937)
  47. Brynhild (1937)
  48. The Brothers (1938)
  49. Apropos of Dolores (1938)
  50. The Holy Terror (1939)
  51. All Aboard for Ararat (1940)
  52. Babes in the Darkling Wood (1940)
  53. You Can’t Be Too Careful (1941)
  54. The Wealth of Mr. Waddy (1969)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. The Chronic Argonauts / The Chronic Argonaughts (1888)
  2. The Treasure in the Forest (1894)
  3. The Flowering of the Strange Orchid (1894)
  4. The Remarkable Case of Davidson’s Eyes / The Story of Davidson’s Eyes (1895)
  5. The Plattner Story (1896)
  6. The Star (1897)
  7. The Crystal Egg (1897)
  8. A Story Of The Days To Come (1897)
  9. Mr. Ledbetter’s Vacation (1898)
  10. A Dream of Armageddon (1901)
  11. The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost (1902)
  12. The Valley of Spiders (1903)
  13. The Magic Shop (1903)
  14. Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland (1903)
  15. The Door in the Wall (1906)
  16. The Desert Daisy (1957)
  17. Ugh-Lomi and the Cave Bear (2016)
  18. The New Accelerator (2017)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences (1895)
  2. The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents (1896)
  3. The Crystal Egg and Other Tales (1897)
  4. Thirty Strange Stories (1897)
  5. The Plattner Story and Others (1897)
  6. Tales of Space and Time (1899)
  7. Twelve Stories and a Dream (1906)
  8. The Country of the Blind and Other Selected Stories (1909)
  9. Tales of Wonder (1910)
  10. The Complete Short Stories (1927)
  11. The Moth and Other Stories (1962)
  12. Early Writings in Science and Science Fiction (1975)
  13. The Empire of the Ants and Other Stories (1977)
  14. The Man With a Nose (1984)
  15. In the Days of the Comet & Seventeen Short Stories (1999)
  16. The Red Room and Other Stories (2000)
  17. The Grisly Folk, and the Wild Asses of the Devil (2008)
  18. Collected Short Stories (2008)
  19. Tales of the Weird and Supernatural (2011)
  20. The Best Short Stories of H.G. Wells (2015)
  21. The Argonauts of the Air & 15 Short Stories (2015)
  22. The Door in the Wall? And Other Stories (2017)

Screenplays Books In Publication Order

  1. The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1898)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Certain Personal Matters (1897)
  2. Anticipations (1901)
  3. The Discovery of the Future (1902)
  4. Mankind in the Making (1903)
  5. The Future in America (1906)
  6. This Misery of Boots (1907)
  7. First and Last Things (1908)
  8. New Worlds for Old (1908)
  9. Floor Games (1911)
  10. Little Wars (1913)
  11. An Englishman Looks at the World (1914)
  12. What is Coming? (1916)
  13. Elements of Reconstruction (1916)
  14. God the Invisible King (1917)
  15. War and the Future / Italy, France and Britain at War (1917)
  16. In The Fourth Year (1918)
  17. The Outline of History (1919)
  18. Russia in the Shadows (1920)
  19. The Salvaging of Civiization (1921)
  20. A Short History of the World (1922)
  21. Washington and the Riddle of Peace / Washington and the Hope of Peace (1922)
  22. A Modern Utopia and Other Discussions (1925)
  23. The Open Conspiracy: What Are We To Do With Our Lives? (1928)
  24. The Science of Life (With: ) (1929)
  25. The Open Conspiracy and Other Writings (1933)
  26. Experiment in Autobiography (1934)
  27. H.G. Wells in Love (1934)
  28. World Brain (1938)
  29. The Fate of Ho*mo Sapiens / The Fate of Man (1939)
  30. The New World Order (1939)
  31. The Conquest of Time (1942)
  32. Crux Ansata (1943)
  33. Mind at the End of Its Tether (1945)
  34. Interviews and Recollections (1981)
  35. Experiment in Autobiography, Vol. 2 (1984)
  36. A Volume of Journalism (1999)
  37. The Conquest of Time and The Happy Turning (2002)
  38. Little Wars and Floor Games (2006)

Correspondence Of H.G. Wells Books In Publication Order

  1. The Correspondence of H.G. Wells (1996)
  2. The Correspondence of H G Wells, Vol. 2 (1997)
  3. The Correspondence of H G Wells, Vol. 4 (1997)
  4. The Correspondence of H G Wells, Vol. 3 (1997)

The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories Anthology Books In Publication Order

  1. The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (By:,,D.H. Lawrence,,,Robert Aickman,,,,Elizabeth Jane Howard) (1964)
  2. The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (By:Robert Aickman) (1966)
  3. The Third Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (By:E.F. Benson,,,Arthur Quiller-Couch,Robert Aickman) (1967)
  4. The 4th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (By:Robert Aickman) (1968)
  5. The 5th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (By:,Robert Aickman,,Jerome K. Jerome) (1969)
  6. The Sixth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1970)
  7. The Seventh Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (By:,Washington Irving,,Vladimir Nabokov,,,,Robert Aickman) (1980)
  8. The Eighth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (By:Agatha Christie,,,,Robert Aickman) (1982)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. 50 Great Short Stories (1952)
  2. The Sixth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1970)
  3. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II A (1973)
  4. Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1979)
  5. The Best Crime Stories Ever Told (2002)
  6. Tainted: Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (2008)
  7. The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010)
  8. Amazing Stories, February 1929 (2014)
  9. Lost Mars (2018)

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H.G. Wells Books Overview

The Time Machine

H.G. Wells’s classic novel The Time Machine, first published in 1895, is one part fairy tale, one part love story, one part science fiction, and one part utopia. Readers can enjoy the story on multiple levels and take away something unique to themselves upon finishing the novel. With every turn of the page, we become as little children being read a good night story; for in effect, we are being read to rather than reading ourselves. The story is told through an unnamed narrator, a young member of an informal group of men who meet occasionally at the Time Traveler’s house for dinner, drinks, cigars, and conversation. It is no accident that the narrator who tells us the story is the least skeptical, indeed the most credulous of the group, in response to the Time Traveler’s claim to have built a Time Machine. We need an optimistic and trusting narrator, for he represents the audacity of hope, the possibility of human endeavor leading to improvement and progress, at a time when the specter of social Darwinism and scientific fatalism had fallen over the western world. The narrator is the one who exclaims, in response to the prospect of traveling into the future, ‘To discover a society erected on a strictly communistic basis.’ As humorous and na ve as such a statement sounds to us today, communism was a synonym for utopia in the late nineteenth century. And so we are supposed to identify with the narrator, to suspend our disbelief in the absurd hypothesis of time as the fourth dimension and the fantastical invention of a time machine. During the time when we submit to the power of the story and allow ourselves to be swept away by the fantasy, time machine does exist and time travel is possible.

The Wonderful Visit

Herbert George Wells 1866 1946 was an English writer best known for science fiction novels such as The Time Machine 1888, The Island of Doctor Moreau 1896, The War of the Worlds 1897, The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance 1897 and The First Men in the Moon 1900 01. He was a prolific writer of both fiction and non fiction, and produced works in many different genres, including contemporary novels, history and social commentary. He was also an outspoken socialist. His later works become increasingly political and didactic, and only his early science fiction novels are widely read today. Wells is sometimes referred to as ‘The Father of Science Fiction’. Among his most famous works are: Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story 1909, The History of Mr. Polly 1910, The Country of the Blind and Other Stories 1911, An Englishman Looks at the World 1914, God the Invisible King 1917 and In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace 1918.

The Island of Dr. Moreau

Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library Literary Society is a non profit educational organization. Visit us online at www. 1stWorldLibrary. ORG ON February the First 1887, the Lady Vain was lost by collision with a derelict when about the latitude 1′ S. and longitude 107′ W. On January the Fifth, 1888 that is eleven months and four days after my uncle, Edward Prendick, a private gentleman, who certainly went aboard the Lady Vain at Callao, and who had been considered drowned, was picked up in latitude 5′ 3′ S. and longitude 101′ W. in a small open boat of which the name was illegible, but which is supposed to have belonged to the missing schooner Ipecacuanha. He gave such a strange account of himself that he was supposed demented. Subsequently he alleged that his mind was a blank from the moment of his escape from the Lady Vain. His case was discussed among psychologists at the time as a curious instance of the lapse of memory consequent upon physical and mental stress. The following narrative was found among his papers by the undersigned, his nephew and heir, but unaccompanied by any definite request for publication.

The Invisible Man

Unabridged Audiobook 1 MP3 CD, 6 hours, 19 minutes read by Scott Brick

‘The stranger came early in February…
He was wrapped up from head to foot, and the brim of his soft felt hat hid every inch of his face but the shiny tip of his nose.’ After being evicted by his innkeeper, The Invisible Man reveals his ‘secret’ and escapes without being seen by anyone. This eerie beginning develops into the story behind the ‘disfigured stranger’ as he is hunted through the English countryside.

Once a brilliant scientist, Griffin has been gradually consumed by his research. When he finally achieves his goal, the final result is his departure from humanity. He feels no remorse in using his invisibility to gratify his increasing desires. As he gradually loses his mind, it is hard to determine if it is a result of his chemical concoction, or a simple continuation of his moral decline.

At a time when science fiction was depicting what wonders the future would bring, H. G. Wells was one of the first writers to explore the dark side of science, and portray how easily mortal man could be corrupted when tempted by seemingly unlimited power.

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The War of the Worlds

The War of the Worlds, by H. G. Wells, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:

  • New introductions commissioned from today’s top writers and scholars
  • Biographies of the authors
  • Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events
  • Footnotes and endnotes
  • Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work
  • Comments by other famous authors
  • Study questions to challenge the reader’s viewpoints and expectations
  • Bibliographies for further reading
  • Indices & Glossaries, when appropriate

All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader’s understanding of these enduring works.

On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles terrified American radio listeners by describing a Martian invasion of Earth in a broadcast that became legendary. Forty years earlier, H. G. Wells had first penned the story: The War of the Worlds, a science fiction classic that endures in our collective subconscious.

Deeply concerned with the welfare of contemporary society, Wells wrote his novel of interplanetary conflict in anticipation of war in Europe, and in it he predicted the technological savagery of twentieth century warfare. Playing expertly on worldwide security fears, The War of the Worlds grips readers with its conviction that invasion can happen anytime, anywhere even in our own backyard.

Alfred Mac Adam teaches literature at Barnard College Columbia University. He is a translator and art critic. He also wrote the notes and introduction to the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of Wells’s The Time Machine and The Invisible Man.

When the Sleeper Wakes / The Sleeper Awakes

The Sleeper Awakes is H. G. Wells’s wildly imaginative story of London in the twenty second century and the man who by accident becomes owner and master of the world. In 1897 a Victorian gentleman falls into a sleep from which he cannot be waked. During his two centuries of slumber he becomes the Sleeper, the most well known and powerful person in the world. All property is bequeathed to the Sleeper to be administered by a Council on his behalf. The common people, increasingly oppressed, view the Sleeper as a mythical liberator whose awakening will free them from misery. The Sleeper awakes in 2100 to a futuristic London adorned with wondrous technological trappings yet staggering under social injustice and escalating unrest. His awakening sends shock waves throughout London, from the highest meetings of the Council to the workers laboring in factories in the bowels of the city. Daring rescues and villainous treachery abound as workers and capitalists fight desperately for control of the Sleeper.

Love and Mr. Lewisham

Love and Mr. Lewisham CHAPTER I INTRODUCES MR. LEWISHAM THE opening chapter does not concern itself with Love-indeed that antagonist does not certainly appear until the third-and Mr. Lewisham. is seen at his studies. It was ten years ago, and in those days he was assistant master in the Whortley Proprietary School, Whortley, Sussex, and his wages were forty pounds a year, out of which he had to afford fifteen shillings a week during term time to lodge with Mrs. Munday, at the little shop in the West Street. He was called ‘Mr.’ to distinguis~ him from the bigger boys, whose duty it was to learn, and it was a matter of stringent regulation that he should be addressed as ‘ Sir.’ He wore ready-made clothes, his black jacket of rigid line was dusted about the front and sleeves with scholastic chalk, and his face was downy and his moustache incipient. He was a passable-looking I

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; CHAPTER rAGE; I Introduces Mr Lewisham ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? I; II ‘As the Wind Blows’ 11; III The Wonderful Discovery ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 22; IV Raised Eyebrows 28; V Hesitations 37; VI The Scandalous Ramble 43; ? VII The Reckoning 58; VIII The Career Prevails 70; IX Alice Heydinger 78; X In the Gallery of Old Iron ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 85 ; XI Manifestations 91; XII Lewisham is Unaccountable ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 106; XIII Lewisham Insists J 09; XIV Mr Lagune’s Point of View ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ?? 119; XV Love in the Streets 126; XVI Miss Heydinger’s Private Thoughts ???????? 136; ~VII In the Raphael Gallery ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? 141; XVIII The Friends of Progress Meet ? ? ? ? ?? 147; XIX Lewisham’s Solution ?????????? 162; XX The Careeris Suspended ?????????????? 171; XXI Home I ? 181; XXII Epithalamy 184; XXIII Mr Chaffery at Home 191; XXIV The Campaign

The First Men in the Moon

Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www. 1stWorldLibrary. ORG As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventures of Mr. Cavor was, after all, the outcome of the purest accident. It might have been any one. I fell into these things at a time when I thought myself removed from the slightest possibility of disturbing experiences. I had gone to Lympne because I had imagined it the most uneventful place in the world. ‘Here, at any rate,’ said I, ‘I shall find peace and a chance to work!’ And this book is the sequel. So utterly at variance is destiny with all the little plans of men. I may perhaps mention here that very recently I had come an ugly cropper in certain business enterprises. Sitting now surrounded by all the circumstances of wealth, there is a luxury in admitting my extremity. I can admit, even, that to a certain extent my disasters were conceivably of my own making. It may be there are directions in which I have some capacity, but the conduct of business operations is not among these. But in those days I was young, and my youth among other objectionable forms took that of a pride in my capacity for affairs.

The Sea Lady

Originally published in 1902. This volume from the Cornell University Library’s print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth

Two scientists devise a compound that produces enormous plants, animals and humans! The chilling results are disastrous. First published in 1904, this gripping, newly relevant tale of science fiction combines fast paced entertainment with social commentary as it considers the ethics involved in genetic engineering.

Kipps

Herbert George Wells 1866 1946 was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine 1888, The Island of Doctor Moreau 1896, The War of the Worlds 1897, The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance 1897 and The First Men in the Moon 1900 01. He was a prolific writer of both fiction and non fiction, and produced works in many different genres, including contemporary novels, history, and social commentary. He was also an outspoken socialist. His later works become increasingly political and didactic, and only his early science fiction novels are widely read today. Wells is sometimes referred to as ‘The Father of Science Fiction’. Among his most famous works are: Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story 1909, The History of Mr. Polly 1910, The Country of the Blind and Other Stories 1911, An Englishman Looks at the World 1914, God the Invisible King 1917 and In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace 1918.

A Modern Utopia

A Modern Utopia was a book written by the famous science fiction author H.G. Wells in 1905. It looks at Wells’s ideal world a one state world, run by a benign dictatorship of well educated and humanistic people.’ Quote from wikipedia. org

About the Author

‘Herbert George Wells September 21, 1866 August 13, 1946, better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The First Men in the Moon and The Island of Doctor Moreau. He was a prolific writer of both fiction and non fiction, and produced works in many different genres, including contemporary novels, history, and social commentary. He was also an outspoken socialist. His later works become increasingly political and didactic, and only his early science fiction novels are widely read today. Wells and Jules Verne are each sometimes referred to as ‘The Father of Science Fiction’.’ Quote from wikipedia. org

Table of Contents

Publisher’s Preface; A Note To The Reader; The Owner Of The Voice; Topographical; Concerning Freedoms; Utopian Economics; The Voice Of Nature; Failure In A Modern Utopia; Women In A Modern Utopia; A Few Utopian Impressions; My Utopian Self; The Samurai; Race In Utopia; The Bubble Bursts; Appendix

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In the Days of the Comet

I SAW a gray haired man, a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing. He seemed to be in a room in a tower, very high, so that through the tall window on his left one perceived only distances, a remote horizon of sea, a headland and that vague haze and glitter in the sunset that many miles away marks a city. All the appointments of this room were orderly and beautiful, and in some subtle quality, in this small difference and that, new to me and strange. They were in no fashion I could name, and the simple costume the man wore suggested neither period nor country. It might, I thought, be the Happy Future, or Utopia, or the Land of Simple Dreams; an errant mote of memory, Henry James’s phrase and story of ‘The Great Good Place,’ twinkled across my mind, and passed and left no light. The man I saw wrote with a thing like a fountain pen, a modern touch that prohibited any historical retrospection, and as he finished each sheet, writing in an easy flowing hand, he added it to a growing pile upon a graceful little table under the window. His last done sheets lay loose, partly covering others that were clipped together into fascicles.

The War in the Air

The reader should grasp clearly the date at which this book was written. It was done in 1907: it appeared in various magazines as a serial in 1908 and it was published in the Fall of that year. At that time the airplane was, for most people, merely a rumor and the Sausage held the air. The contemporary reader has all the advantage of ten years’ experience since this story was imagined. He can correct his author at a dozen points and estimate the value of these warnings by the standard of a decade of realities. The book is weak on anti aircraft guns, for example, and still more negligent of submarines. Much, no doubt, will strike the reader as quaint and limited but upon much the writer may not unreasonably plume himself. The interpretation of the German spirit must have read as a caricature in 1908. Was it a caricature? Prince Karl seemed a fantasy then. Reality has since copied Prince Karl with an astonishing faithfulness. Is it too much to hope that some democratic ‘Bert’ may not ultimately get even with his Highness? Our author tells us in this book, as he has told us in others, more especially in The World Set Free, and as he has been telling us this year in his War and the Future, that if mankind goes on with war, the smash up of civilization is inevitable. It is chaos or the United States of the World for mankind. There is no other choice…
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Tono-Bungay

Herbert George Wells 1866 1946 was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine 1888, The Island of Doctor Moreau 1896, The War of the Worlds 1897, The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance 1897 and The First Men in the Moon 1900 01. He was a prolific writer of both fiction and non fiction, and produced works in many different genres, including contemporary novels, history, and social commentary. He was also an outspoken socialist. His later works become increasingly political and didactic, and only his early science fiction novels are widely read today. Wells is sometimes referred to as ‘The Father of Science Fiction’. Among his most famous works are: Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story 1909, The History of Mr. Polly 1910, The Country of the Blind and Other Stories 1911, An Englishman Looks at the World 1914, God the Invisible King 1917 and In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace 1918.

Ann Veronica

One Wednesday afternoon in late September, Ann Veronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have things out with her father that very evening. She had trembled on the verge of such a resolution before, but this time quite definitely she made it. A crisis had been reached, and she was almost glad it had been reached. She made up her mind in the train home that it should be a decisive crisis. It is for that reason that this novel begins with her there, and neither earlier nor later, for it is the history of this crisis and its consequences that this novel has to tell. She had a compartment to herself in the train from London to Morningside Park, and she sat with both her feet on the seat in an attitude that would certainly have distressed her mother to see, and horrified her grandmother beyond measure; she sat with her knees up to her chin and her hands clasped before them, and she was so lost in thought that she discovered with a start, from a lettered lamp, that she was at Morningside Park, and thought she was moving out of the station, whereas she was only moving in.

The History of Mr Polly

The History of Mr. Polly CHAPTER THE FIRST ‘beginnings, and the bazaar’ ‘OLE!’ said Mr- Polly’ and thcn for a change, and with greatly increased emphasis: ‘ Ole! ‘ He paused, and then broke out with one of his private and peculiar idioms. ‘ Oh! Beastly Silly Wheeze of a Hole!’ He was sitting- on a stile between two threadbare looking- fields, and suffering acutely from indigestion. He suffered from indigestion now nearly every afternoon in his life, but as he lacked introspection he projected the associated discomfort upon the world. Every afternoon he discovered afresh that life as a whole and every aspect of life that presented itself was ‘beastly.’* And this afternoon, lured by the delusive blueness of a sky that was blue because the wind was in the east, he had come out in the hope of snatching something of the joyousness of spring. The mysterious alchemy of mind and body refused, however, to permit any joyousness whatever in the spring.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; chatter page; I Beginnings, and the Bazaar ,, m , 3; II Dismissal of Parsons ; III Cribs , 49; IV Mr Polly an Orphan 65 V Mr Polly takes a Vacation 97; VI Miriam , 127; VII The Little Shop at Fishbourne ? 173; VIII Making an End to Things 211; IX TnE Potwell Inn 243; X Miriam Revisited

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The Sleeper Awakes

The Sleeper Awakes is H. G. Wells’s wildly imaginative story of London in the twenty second century and the man who by accident becomes owner and master of the world. In 1897 a Victorian gentleman falls into a sleep from which he cannot be waked. During his two centuries of slumber he becomes the Sleeper, the most well known and powerful person in the world. All property is bequeathed to the Sleeper to be administered by a Council on his behalf. The common people, increasingly oppressed, view the Sleeper as a mythical liberator whose awakening will free them from misery. The Sleeper Awakes in 2100 to a futuristic London adorned with wondrous technological trappings yet staggering under social injustice and escalating unrest. His awakening sends shock waves throughout London, from the highest meetings of the Council to the workers laboring in factories in the bowels of the city. Daring rescues and villainous treachery abound as workers and capitalists fight desperately for control of the Sleeper.

The New Machiavelli

A Bromstead Rip van Winkle from 1550 returning in 1750 would have found most of the old houses still as he had known them, the same trades a little improved and differentiated one from the other, the same roads rather more carefully tended, the Inns not very much altered, the ancient familiar market house. The occasional wheeled traffic would have struck him as the most remarkable difference, next perhaps to the swaggering painted stone monuments instead of bras*ses and the protestant severity of the communion table in the parish church, both from the material point of view very little things. A Rip van Winkle from 1350, again, would have noticed scarcely greater changes; fewer clergy, more people, and particularly more people of the middling sort; the glass in the windows of many of the houses, the stylish chimneys springing up everywhere would have impressed him, and suchlike details. The place would have had the same boundaries, the same broad essential features, would have been still itself in the way that a man is still himself after he has ‘filled out’ a little and grown a longer beard and changed his clothes. But after 1750 something got hold of the world, something that was destined to alter the scale of every human affair. That something was machinery and a vague energetic disposition to improve material things. In another part of England ingenious people were beginning to use coal in smelting iron, and were producing metal in abundance and metal castings in sizes that had hitherto been unattainable. Without warning or preparation, increment involving countless possibilities of further increment was coming to the strength of horses and men. ‘Power,’ all unsuspected, was flowing like a drug into the veins of the social body. Nobody seems to have perceived this coming of power, and nobody had calculated its probable consequences. Suddenly, almost inadvertently, people found themselves doing things that would have amazed their ancestors…
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Marriage

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The Passionate Friends

In this novel, Mr. Stratton wants very much to set down his thoughts and experiences of life. He wants to do so now that he has come to middle age and now that his attitudes are all defined and his personal drama worked out. He feels that the toil of writing and reconsideration may help to clear and fix many things that remain a little uncertain in his thoughts because they have never been fully stated, and he wants to discover any lurking inconsistencies and unsuspected gaps. And what a story he has!

The World Set Free

‘From nearly two hundred centres, and every week added to their number, roared the unquenchable crimson conflagrations of the atomic bombs. The flimsy fabric of the world’s credit had vanished, industry was completed disorganised, and every city, every thickly populated area was starving or trembled on the verge of starvation. Most of the capital cities of the world were burning; millions of people had already perished, and over great areas government was at an end.’ The Last War erupts in Europe, rapidly escalating from bloody trench warfare and vicious aerial duels into a world consuming, atomic holocaust. Paris is engulfed by an atomic maelstrom, Berlin is an ever flaming crater, the cold waters of the North Sea roar past Dutch dikes and sweep across the Low Countries. Moscow, Chicago, Tokyo, London, and hundreds of other cities become radioactive wastelands. Governments topple, age old cultural legacies are destroyed, and the stage is set for a new social and political order. The Last War is H. G. Wells’s chilling and prophetic tale of a world gone mad with atomic weapons and of the rebirth of human kind from the rubble. Written long before the atomic age, Wells’s novel is a riveting and intelligent history of the future that discusses for the first time the horrors of the atomic bomb, offering a startling vision of humanity purged by a catastrophic atomic war.

The Research Magnificent

Herbert George Wells 1866 1946 was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine 1888, The Island of Doctor Moreau 1896, The War of the Worlds 1897, The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance 1897 and The First Men in the Moon 1900 01. He was a prolific writer of both fiction and non fiction, and produced works in many different genres, including contemporary novels, history, and social commentary. He was also an outspoken socialist. His later works become increasingly political and didactic, and only his early science fiction novels are widely read today. Wells is sometimes referred to as ‘The Father of Science Fiction’. Among his most famous works are: Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story 1909, The History of Mr. Polly 1910, The Country of the Blind and Other Stories 1911, An Englishman Looks at the World 1914, God the Invisible King 1917 and In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace 1918.

Boon, the Mind of the Race (As: Reginald Bliss)

INTRODUCTION WHENEVER a publisher gets a book by one author he wants an Introduction written to it by another, and Mr. Fisher Unwin is no exception to the rule. Nobody reads Intro ductions, they serve no useful purpose, and they give no pleasure, but they appeal to the business mind, I think, because as a rule they cost nothing. At any rate, by the pressure of a certain inseparable intimacy between Mr. Reginald Bliss and myself, this Introduction has been extracted from me. I will confess that I have not read his book through, though I have a kind of first hand knowledge of its contents, and that it seems to me an indis creet, ill advised book…
. I have a very strong suspicion that this Introduction idea is designed to entangle me in the responsibility for the book. In America, at any rate, The Life of George Meek, Bath Chairman, was ascribed to me upon no better evidence. Yet any one who likes may go to Eastbourne and find Meek with chair and all complete. But in view of the complications of the book market and the large simplicities of the public mind, I do hope and by that the reader that I mean the reviewer will be able to see the reasonableness and the neces sity of distinguishing between me and Mr. Reginald Bliss. I do not wish to escape the penalties of thus participating in, and en dorsing, his manifest breaches of good taste, literary decorum, and friendly obligation, but as a writer whose reputation is already too crowded and confused and who is for the ordinary purposes of every day known mainly as a novelist, I should be glad if I could escape the public identification I am now repudiating. Bliss is Bliss and Wells is Wells. And Bliss can write all sorts of things that Wells could not do. This Introduction has really no more to say than that. H. G. WELLS. CONTENTS PAOT, INTRODUCTION 5 CHAPTER THE FIRST THE BACK OF MISS BATHWICK AND GEOEGE BOON . 9 CHAPTER THE SECOND BEING THE FIRST CHAPTER OF THE MIND OF THE RACE 43 CHAPTER THE THIRD THE GREAT SLUMP, THE REVIVAL OF LETTERS, AND THE GARDEN BY THE SEA…
64 CHAPTER THE FOURTH OF ART, OF LITERATURE, OF MR. HENRY JAMES . 84 CHAPTER THE FIFTH OF THE ASSEMBLING AND OPENING OF THE WORLD CONFERENCE ON THE MIND OF THE RACE . 129 7 8 CONTENTS CHAPTER THE SIXTH OP NOT LIKING HALLEBY AND THE ROYAL SOCIETY PAGE FOR THE DISCOURAGEMENT OF LITERATURE . 173 CHAPTER THE SEVENTH WILKINS MAKES CERTAIN OBJECTIONS…
189 CHAPTER THE EIGHTH THE BEGINNING OF THE WILD ASSES OF THE DEVIL 223 CHAPTER THE NINTH THE HUNTING OF THE WILD ASSES OF THE DEVIL 255 CHAPTER THE TENTH THE STORY OF THE LAST TRUMP…
295 BOON, THE MIND OF THE RACE, THE WILD ASSES OF THE DEVIL, and THE LAST TRUMP CHAPTER THE FIRST THE BACK OF Miss BATHWICK AND GEORGE BOON IT is quite probable that the reader does not know of the death of George Boon, and that remains before his name upon the title page will be greeted with a certain astonish ment. In the ordinary course of things, before the explosion of the war, the death of George Boon would have been an event oh a three quarters of a column or more 10 BOON in the Times event, and articles in the monthlies and reminiscences. As it is, he is not so much dead as missing…

Mr. Britling Sees It Through

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER THE THIRD THE ENTERTAINMENT OF MR. DIRECK BEACHES A CLIMAX ! ‘ Breakfast was in the open air, and a sunny, easygoing feast. Then the small boys laid hands on Mr. Direck and showed him the pond and the boats, while Mr. Brit ling strolled about the lawn with Hugh, talking rather intently. And when Mr. Direck returned from the boats in a state of greatly enhanced popularity he found Mr. Britling conversing over his garden railings to what was altogether a new type of Britisher in Mr. Direck’s experience. It was a tall, lean, sun bitten youngish man of forty perhaps, in brown tweeds, looking more like the Englishman of the American illustrations than anything Mr. Direck had met hitherto. Indeed he came very near to a complete realisation of that ideal except that there was a sort of intensity about him, and that his clipped moustache had the restrained stiffness of a wiry haired terrier. This gentleman Mr. Direck learnt was Colonel Rendezvous. He spoke in clear short sentences, they had an effect of being punched out, and he was refusing to come into the garden and talk. ‘ Have to do my fourteen miles before lunch,’ he said. ‘ You haven’t seen Manning about, have you ?’ ‘ He isn’t here,’ said Mr. Britling, and it seemed to Mr. Direck that there was the faintest ambiguity in this reply. ‘ Have to go alone, then,’ said Colonel Rendezvous. ‘ They told me that he had started to come here.’ ‘ I shall motor over to Bramley High Oak for your Boy Scout festival,’ said Mr. Britling. ‘ Going to have three thousand of ’em,’ said the Colonel. ‘ Good show.’ His steely eyes seemed to search the cover of Mr. Brit ling’s garden for the missing Manning, and then He decided to give him up. ‘ I must be going,’ he said. ‘ So long. Come up! ‘ A well disciplined…

The Soul of a Bishop

‘What is really the matter here the matter with you that is is a disorganization of your tests of reality…
.. E very living being lives in a state not differing essentially from a state of hallucination concerning the things about it. Truth, essential truth, is hidden. Always. Of course, there must be a measure of truth in our working illusions, a working measure of truth, or the creature would smash itself up and end itself, but beyond that discretion of the first and the pitfall lies a wide margin of error about which we may be deceived for years.’ from ‘The First Vision’ He is known, along with Jules Verne, as one of the 19th century fathers of logical, rational science fiction, but in this 1917 novel, H. G. Wells weaves a more intuitive tale, about a bishop haunted by strange dreams and visions that challenge his faith. Lyrical, poetic, and verging on stream of consciousness in places, this little read work of one of the most enduringly popular writers of modern literature is like found treasure, offering a captivating and unexpected insight into Wells’ psyche. British author HERBERT GEORGE WELLS 1866 1946 is best known for his groundbreaking science fiction novels The Time Machine 1895, The Invisible Man 1897, and The War of the Worlds 1898.

Joan and Peter: A Story of an Education

Contents: Peter’s parentage; Stublands in council; Arthur or Oswald; first impressions of the universe; christening; fourth guardian; School of St. George and the Venerable Bede; High Cross Preparatory School; Oswald takes control; searching of schoolmasters; adolescence; world on the eve of war; Joan and Peter graduate; Oswald’s valediction.

The Secret Places of the Heart

Herbert George Wells 1866 1946 was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine 1888, The Island of Doctor Moreau 1896, The War of the Worlds 1897, The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance 1897 and The First Men in the Moon 1900 01. He was a prolific writer of both fiction and non fiction, and produced works in many different genres, including contemporary novels, history, and social commentary. He was also an outspoken socialist. His later works become increasingly political and didactic, and only his early science fiction novels are widely read today. Wells is sometimes referred to as ‘The Father of Science Fiction’. Among his most famous works are: Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story 1909, The History of Mr. Polly 1910, The Country of the Blind and Other Stories 1911, An Englishman Looks at the World 1914, God the Invisible King 1917 and In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace 1918.

Men Like Gods

Men Like Gods‘ is a 1922 novel written by H. G. Wells. It features a utopian parallel universe. The hero of the novel, Mr. Barnstaple, is a depressive journalist in the newspaper ‘The Liberal.’ At the beginning of the story, Mr. Barnstaple, as well as a few other Englishmen, are accidentally transported to the parallel world of Utopia. Utopia is like an advanced Earth, although it had been quite similar to Earth in the past in a period known to Utopians as the ‘Days of Confusion.’ Utopia is a utopian world: it has a utopian socialist world government, advanced science, and even pathogens have been eliminated and predators are almost tamed. Barnstaple is confounded and confused by the utopian attitudes: ‘where is your government ?’ he asks. ‘our government is in our education’ is the answer. Barnstaple gradually loses his Victorian English narcissism. For instance, Wells makes comments on personal responsibility when Barnstaple sees a person slaving over a rose garden at high altitude and asks, ‘Why don’t you hire a gardener?’ The answer is, ‘The working class has vanished from utopia years ago! He who loves the rose must then serve that rose.’ Barnstaple is changed by those experiences and he loses his Eurocentric view of the world and starts to really get the idea of the place. As this conversion starts to take place, Utopians begin to fall ill. This, however, means that the newly arrived Earthlings pose a grave threat to Utopians, as the latter’s immune system has become weak; and the Earthlings have to be quarantined until a solution is found. They resent this isolation and some of them plot to take over Utopia…

Christina Alberta’s Father

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Autocracy of Mr. Parham

Mr Parham is in a quandary. Sir Bussy Woodcock has invited him to a seance and Mr Parham is more than a little keen to keep the acquaintance going after all, the great financier might just be his ticket to fame and fortune. But to a seance? Damned silly nonsense all this medium business! Just at the point of giving up Sir Bussy once and for all, Mr Parham has one final change of mind and decides to go along after all. And so he does with some very interesting results.

Bulpington of Blup

Theodore Bulpington is a very ordinary man with a very vivid imagination. Ill at ease with himself, he sees a way to recreate his identity by adding layer upon layer of deception. This he does with such panache that eventually he becomes an impostor, a liar and a cheat. But with so many different masks to hold in place, his carefully woven deception soon spirals out of control and heads towards the chaos of mental torment.

The Shape of Things to Come

A prescient look at humankind’s future When a diplomat dies in the 1930s, he leaves behind a book of ‘dream visions’ he has been experiencing, detailing events that will occur on Earth for the next 200 years. This fictional account of the future similar to Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon proved prescient in many ways, as Wells predicts events such as World War II, the rise of chemical warfare, and climate change.

The Croquet Player

Something is horribly wrong in the remote English village of Cainsmarsh. An elderly woman stiffens in dread at her own shadow; a terrified farmer murders a scarecrow; food prepared by others is eyed with suspicion; family pets are bludgeoned to death; loving couples are devoured by rage and violence. A spirit corrupting evil pervades the land, infesting the minds of those who call Cainsmarsh home. Is this vision real, or a paranoid fantasy generated by an even darker, worldwide threat? And is the call to resist the danger itself a danger? These are questions that disturb the calm of an indolent croquet player who happens to hear the tale of the unlucky village. H. G. Wells’s ambiguous story of horror is a modern classic, a prophetic, disturbing glimpse of the primitive distrust and violence that gnaw at the heart of the modern world.

Star Begotten

In his 1898 War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells imagined aliens from Mars descending to Earth with violent intentions. In Star Begotten, first published in 1937, the suspicion arises that the Martians may have returned this time using cosmic rays to alter human chromosomes. The protagonist Joseph Davis, an author of popular histories, grows fearfully obsessed with rumors of the Martian plan. He considers the possibility that mutation may have already occurred, and that his child, his wife, and even he may already be Martians. An ironic and often comic novel, Star Begotten portrays discoveries in evolutionary biology and contemplates the benefits as well as the horrors of mutation. This new annotated edition situates the novel in its literary and historical contexts, explains its place in Wells’s late development, and highlights its importance as a precursor to the dark comedies of delusion by writers like Robert Sheckley and Philip K. Dick.

Brynhild

Rowland Palace was a success story an outstanding scholar, he had gained renown for his worthy opinions even before he came down from Cambridge. It was only a matter of time before his first book was published, and then on to bigger and better things. It seemed that nothing could stop his meteoric rise except perhaps those photographs

Apropos of Dolores

Stephen Wilbeck leads a carefree life. Flitting between Paris and London, New York and Torqu stol, he has plenty of time to enjoy the finer things of life, and to observe the people that pass him by. His only tie is to the lovely Dolores a woman that occupies more of his thoughts that he would care to admit. But Stephen’s stubbornness is to take him on the well trodden path of loneliness and solitude.

The Holy Terror

Who would have thought a baby could scream quite so murderously? And blue murder at that? Cook prayed he’d grow out of it, but the child only seemed to get worse. And then the kicking came, and the smashing his mother despaired, wishing she’d had a daughter instead. It wasn’t an auspicious beginning. But perhaps it was a sign of what was to come.

Babes in the Darkling Wood

Stella has it all looks, intelligence and an undergraduate place at Cambridge, not to mention Gemini, her fervent admirer at Oxford. Stella and Gemini, the two babes of the story, come increasingly under the influence of a rather impressive psycho therapeutist whose groundbreaking theories capture their imaginations. But when tragedy strikes they are soon to learn that intellectualism brings cold comfort. Babes in Darkling Wood is not only a powerful story of changing fortunes, but also provides an exacting dialogue of the day’s advances in psychoanalytical theory.

You Can’t Be Too Careful

A collection of tales warns of the bewildering nature of life and death with true stories of the unlikely, improbable, and unexpected ways in which lives are swallowed up.

The Plattner Story

The Plattner Story
WHETHER the story of Gottfried Plattner is ‘to be credited or not, is a pretty question in the value of evidence. On the one hand, we have seven witnesses-to be perfectly exact, we have six and a half pairs of eyes, and one undeniable fact; and on the other we have-what is it?- prejudice, common sense, the inertia of opinion. Never were there seven more honest-seeming witnesses ; never was there a more undeniable fact than the inversion of Gottfried Plattner’s anatomical structure, and-never was there a more preposterous story than the one they have to tell I The most preposterous part of the story is the worthy Gottfried’s contribution for I count him as one of the seven. Heaven forbid that I should be led into giving countenance to superstition by a passion for impartiality, and so come to share the fate of Eusapia’s patrons! Frankly, I believe there is something crooked about this business of Gottfried Plattner; but what that crooked factor is, I will admi

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; The Plattner Story ; THE ARGONAUTS OF THE AIR THE STORY OF THE LATE MR ELVESHAM IN THE ABYSS THE APPLE ; -UNDER THE KNIFE THE SEA-RAIDERS POLLOCK AND THE PORROH MAN THE RED ROOM THE CONE; THE PURPLE PILEUS ; THE JILTING OF JANE ; IN THE MODERN VEIN ; A CATASTROPHE ; THE LOST INHERITANCE; THE SAD STORY OF A DRAMATIC CRITIC; A SLIP UNDER THE MICROSCOPE

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The Door in the Wall

One confidential evening, not three months ago, Lionel Wallace told methis story of The Door in the Wall. And at the time I thought that so far as he was concerned it was a true story. He told it me with such a direct simplicity of conviction that I could not do otherwise than believe in him. But in the mor ning, in my own flat, I woke to a different atmosphere, and as I lay in bed and recalled the things he had told me, stripped of the glamour of his earnest slow voice, denuded of the focussed shaded table light, the shadowy atmosphere that wrapped about him and the pleasant bright things, the dessert and glas*ses and napery of the dinner we had shared, making them for the time a bright little world quite cut off from every day realities, I saw it all as frankly incredible. ‘He was mystifying!’ I said, and then: ‘How well he did it!…
. . It isn’t quite the thing I should have expected him, of all people, to do well.’

Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences

Herbert George Wells 1866 1946 was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine 1888, The Island of Doctor Moreau 1896, The War of the Worlds 1897, The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance 1897 and The First Men in the Moon 1900 01. He was a prolific writer of both fiction and non fiction, and produced works in many different genres, including contemporary novels, history, and social commentary. He was also an outspoken socialist. His later works become increasingly political and didactic, and only his early science fiction novels are widely read today. Wells is sometimes referred to as ‘The Father of Science Fiction’. Among his most famous works are: Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story 1909, The History of Mr. Polly 1910, The Country of the Blind and Other Stories 1911, An Englishman Looks at the World 1914, God the Invisible King 1917 and In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace 1918.

The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents

H. G. Wells First Book First published in 1895 just before his first novel, The Time Machine, The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents features H. G. Wells earliest science fiction stories. Ranging from a plot to wipe out London through biological terrorism to an unknown creature preying on scientists at a remote astronomical observatory, the stories selected for this new edition display the amazing imagination and plot twists that are characteristic of the author’s later works. Full of youthful exuberance, each of these tales provide for a greater appreciation for how Wells developed his craft. Several of the brief plots laid out in this collection were subsequently expanded by the author into larger works, while others could be the basis for other writers efforts, such as The Flowering of the Strange Orchid, which is essentially the same story as Little Shop of Horrors.

The Crystal Egg and Other Tales

From ‘The Crystal Egg’: There was, until a year ago, a little and very grimy looking shop near Seven Dials over which, in weather worn yellow lettering, the name of ‘C. Cave, Naturalist and Dealer in Antiquities,’ was inscribed. The contents of its window were curiously variegated. They comprised some elephant tusks and an imperfect set of chessmen, beads and weapons, a box of eyes, two skulls of tigers and one human, several moth eaten stuffed monkeys one holding a lamp, an old fashioned cabinet, a flyblown ostrich egg or so, some fishing tackle, and an extraordinarily dirty, empty glass fish tank. There was also, at the moment the story begins, a mass of crystal, worked into the shape of an egg and brilliantly polished. The clergyman, without any ceremony, asked the price of the crystal egg. ‘Five pounds is my price,’ said Mr. Cave, with a quiver in his voice. Also included in this volume are Wells’s ‘The Man Who Could Work Miracles,’ ‘The Plattner Story,’ ‘The Strange Orchid,’ ‘The New Accelerator,’ ‘The Diamond Maker,’ ‘The Apple,’ and ‘The Purple Pileus.’

Thirty Strange Stories

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The Plattner Story and Others

THE PLATTNER STORY
WHETHER the story of Gottfried Plattner is ‘to be credited or not, is a pretty question in the value of evidence. On the one hand, we have seven witnesses-to be perfectly exact, we have six and a half pairs of eyes, and one undeniable fact; and on the other we have-what is it?- prejudice, common sense, the inertia of opinion. Never were there seven more honest-seeming witnesses ; never was there a more undeniable fact than the inversion of Gottfried Plattner’s anatomical structure, and-never was there a more preposterous story than the one they have to tell I The most preposterous part of the story is the worthy Gottfried’s contribution for I count him as one of the seven. Heaven forbid that I should be led into giving countenance to superstition by a passion for impartiality, and so come to share the fate of Eusapia’s patrons! Frankly, I believe there is something crooked about this business of Gottfried Plattner; but what that crooked factor is, I will admi

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; THE PLATTNER STORY ; THE ARGONAUTS OF THE AIR THE STORY OF THE LATE MR ELVESHAM IN THE ABYSS THE APPLE ; -UNDER THE KNIFE THE SEA-RAIDERS POLLOCK AND THE PORROH MAN THE RED ROOM THE CONE; THE PURPLE PILEUS ; THE JILTING OF JANE ; IN THE MODERN VEIN ; A CATASTROPHE ; THE LOST INHERITANCE; THE SAD STORY OF A DRAMATIC CRITIC; A SLIP UNDER THE MICROSCOPE

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Tales of Space and Time

Herbert George Wells 1866 1946 was an English writer best remembered today for his science fiction works. Wells and Jules Verne are each sometimes referred to as ‘The Father of Science Fiction’. He has foretold many futures for us, some utterly abhorrent, others more or less attractive…
There was, for example, ‘The Man Who Could Work Miracles’: ‘his name was George McWhirter;…
he was a little man and had eyes of a hot brown, very erect red hair, a mustache with ends he twisted up, and freckles.’ This unpromising looking individual, and he was a blatant skeptic, too, becomes suddenly possessed of the power to make anything happen that he wills, but he finds the use of this mysterious gift by no means to his advantage. It brings him and others into all sorts of trouble, and only his renunciation of it saves the world from destruction. We shudder at the thought of humanity being suffocated on a blazing world as in ‘The Star’,…
which is a little gem in its way without a superfluous word or a false tone…
Those were the days when Mr. Wells was writing for pleasure. He was enabled to throw off in the early nineties a swift succession of short stories astonishingly varied in style and theme. As he became more experienced in the art of writing, or rather of marketing manuscripts, he seems to have regretted this youthful prodigality of bright ideas. Many of them he later worked over on a more extensive scale as the metallurgist goes back to a mine and with an improved process extracts more gold from the tailings and dump than the miner got out of the ore originally. In its power to forecast the future science finds both its validation and justification. By this alone it tests its conclusions and demonstrates its usefulness. In fact, the sole object of science is prophecy…
The mind of the scientific man is directed forward and he has no use for history except as it gives him data by which to draw a curve that he may project into the future. It is, therefore, not a chance direction of his fancy that so many of Wells’s books, both romances and studies, deal with the future. It is the natural result of his scientific training, which not only led him to a rich unworked field of fictional motives, but made him consider the problems of life from a novel and very illuminative point of view. Edwin E. Slosson

Twelve Stories and a Dream

‘There remains a confidential letter from Major General Volleyfire to the Earl of Frogs. The man’s a crank and a bounder to boot, says the Major General in his bluff, sensible, army way ‘

The Country of the Blind and Other Selected Stories

Anyone could say of any short story, ‘A mere anecdote,’ just as anyone can say ‘Incoherent!’ of any novel or of any sonata that isn’t studiously monotonous. The recession of enthusiasm for this compact, amusing form is closely associated in my mind with that discouraging imputation. One felt hopelessly open to a paralyzing and unanswerable charge, and one’s ease and happiness in the garden of one’s fancies was more and more marred by the dread of it. It crept into one’s mind, a distress as vague and inexpugnable as a sea fog on a spring morning, and presently one shivered and wanted to go indoors…
It is the absurd fate of the imaginative writer that he should be thus sensitive to atmospheric conditions. But after one has died as a maker one may still live as a critic, and I will confess I am all for laxness and variety in this as in every field of art. Insistence upon rigid forms and austere unities seems to me the instinctive reaction of the sterile against the fecund. It is the tired man with a headache who values a work of art for what it does not contain. I suppose it is the lot of every critic nowadays to suffer from indigestion and a fatigued appreciation, and to develop a self protective tendency towards rules that will reject, as it were, automatically the more abundant and irregular forms. But this world is not for the weary, and in the long run it is the new and variant that matter. From Wells’s introduction to THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND AND OTHER STORIES.

The Complete Short Stories

Herbert George Wells was perhaps best known as the author of such classic works of science fiction as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds. But it was in his short stories, written when he was a young man embarking on a literary career, that he first explored the enormous potential of the scientific discoveries of the day. He described his stories as ‘a miscellany of inventions,’ yet his enthusiasm for science was tempered by an awareness of its horrifying destructive powers and the threat it could pose to the human race. A consummate storyteller, he made fantastic creatures and machines entirely believable; and, by placing ordinary men and women in extraordinary situations, he explored, with humor, what it means to be alive in a century of rapid scientific progress. At the dawn of a new millennium, Wells’ singular vision is more compelling than ever.

The Empire of the Ants and Other Stories

When Captain Gerilleau received instructions to take his new gunboat, the Benjamin Constant, to Badama on the Batemo arm of the Guaramadema and there assist the inhabitants against a plague of ants, he suspected the authorities of mockery. His promotion had been romantic and irregular, the affections of a prominent Brazilian lady and the captain’s liquid eyes had played a part in the process, and the Diario and O Futuro had been lamentably disrespectful in their comments. He felt he was to give further occasion for disrespect.

The Man Who Could Work Miracles

Man Who Could Work Miracles without a The is a film, ostensibly a comedy, that H.G. Wells 1866 1946 scripted late in life for London Film Productions. The present volume is a literary text of the scenario and dialogue published in advance of the movie’s release in 1937. Wells himself says it is ‘a companion piece’ to Things to Come, his deadly serious film done a year before. Both films were produced by Alexander Korda, who extended to Wells unprecedented control over them. The editor s introduction explains how two such radically different films are related and discusses the artistic quality of the text, Wells overriding sense of cosmic vision, his views on sex and politics, and his uncommon estimate of the common man’s incapacity for public affairs. The annotations for Wells original text offer penetrating insights into Wellsian thought as expressed for half a century in a variety of genres, including scientific romances and nonfiction. The author, the world s foremost Wellsian scholar, here brings his unique power of analysis to bear on, in the opinion of many, the strangest work Wells ever wrote. The appendices include the 1898 short story version, ‘The Man Who Could Work Miracles,’ three related cosmic vision short stories by Wells, and an excerpt from a 1931 radio address by Wells not inaccurately retitled ‘If I Were Dictator of the World.’

Anticipations

In 1901, the great writer and social critic attempted to predict the future in this book, a fascinating mix of accurate forecasts development of cars, buses and trucks, use of flying machines in combat, decline of permanent marriage and wild misses, including the prediction that submarines will suffocate their crews and founder at sea.

Mankind in the Making

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill Certain Wholesale Aspects Of Man making With a skin of infinite delicacy that life will harden very speedily, with a discomforted writhing little body, with a weak and wailing outcry that stirs the heart, the creature comes protesting into the world, and unless death win a victory, we and chance and the forces of life in it, make out of that soft helplessness a man. Certain things there are inevitable in that man and unalterable, stamped upon his being long before the moment of his birth, the inherited things, the inherent things, his final and fundamental self. This is his ‘heredity,’ his incurable reality, the thing that out of all his being, stands the test of survival and pas*ses on to his children. Certain things he must be, certain things he may be, and certain things are for ever beyond his scope. That much his parentage defines for him, that is the natural man. But, in addition, there is much else to make up the whole adult man as we know him. There is all that he has learnt since his birth, all that he has been taught to do and trained to do, his language, the circle of ideas he has taken to himself, the disproportions thatcome from unequal exercise and the bias due to circumambient suggestion. There are a thousand habits and a thousand prejudices, powers undeveloped and skill laboriously acquired. There are scars upon his body, and scars upon his mind. All these are secondary things, things capable of modification and avoidance; they constitute the manufactured man, the artificial man. And it is chiefly with all this superposed and adherent and artificial portion of a man that this and the following paper will deal. The question of improving the breed, of raising the average human heredity we have discussed and set aside. We are going to draw together now as…

New Worlds for Old

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Floor Games

Often referred to as a companion volume to Wells’ wargaming classic Little Wars, Floor Games is H.G. Wells’ 1911 introduction to recreational gaming. Highlights include a lighthearted, often humorous discussion on the theory and methodology behind a wide variety of ‘floor’ and tabletop games. Features of this new edition include:

A Foreword by renowned game designer James Dunnigan, founder of game company SPI and magazine Strategy & Tactics, that discusses Wells’ influence on the development of the modern wargame.

An Introduction by publisher Michael. J. Varhola that discusses the fist edition of the book, the special challenges associated with republishing it, and its significance to modern wargames and roleplaying games alike.

Numerous tips on creation of improvised models, terrain, and other wargaming props.

Hundreds of pieces of the ‘marginal art’ that illustrated the original 1911 edition of the book.

Eight photographs taken for the original edition of the book showing the props and games created by Wells and his sons.

Little Wars

Herbert George Wells 1866 1946 was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine 1888, The Island of Doctor Moreau 1896, The War of the Worlds 1897, The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance 1897 and The First Men in the Moon 1900 01. He was a prolific writer of both fiction and non fiction, and produced works in many different genres, including contemporary novels, history, and social commentary. He was also an outspoken socialist. His later works become increasingly political and didactic, and only his early science fiction novels are widely read today. Wells is sometimes referred to as ‘The Father of Science Fiction’. Among his most famous works are: Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story 1909, The History of Mr. Polly 1910, The Country of the Blind and Other Stories 1911, An Englishman Looks at the World 1914, God the Invisible King 1917 and In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace 1918.

The Outline of History

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book without typos from the publisher. 1920. Excerpt:…
XXVII THE TWO WESTERN REPUBLICS1 1. The Beginnings of the Latins. 2. A New Sort of State. 3. The Carthaginian Republic of Rich Men. 4. The First Punic War. 5. Cato the Elder and the Spirit of Cato. 6. The Second Punic War. 7. The Third Punic War. 8. How the Punic War Undermined Roman Liberty. 9. Comparison of the Roman Republic with a Modern State. IT is now necessary to take up the history of the two great republics of the Western Mediterranean, Rome and Carthage, and to tell how Rome succeeded in maintaining for some centuries an empire even greater than that achieved by the conquests of Alexander. But this new empire was, as we shall try to make clear, a political structure differing very profoundly in its nature from any of the great Oriental empires that had preceded it. Great changes in the texture of human society and in the conditions of social interrelations had been going on for some centuries. The flexibility and transferability of money was becoming a power and, like all powers in inexpert hands, a danger in human affairs. It was altering the relations of rich men to the state and to their poorer fellow citizens. This new empire, the Roman empire, unlike all the preceding empires, was not the creation of a great conqueror. No Sargon, no Thothmes, no Nebuchadnezzar, no Cyrus nor Alexander nor Chandragupta, was its fountain head. It was made by a republic. It grew by a kind of necessity through new concentrating and unifying forces that were steadily gathering power in human affairs. 1 A very convenient handbook for this and the next two chapters is Matheson’s Skeleton Outline of Roman History. But first it is necessary to give some idea of the state of affaire in Italy in the centuries immediately preceding th…

A Short History of the World

These first real humans beings we know of in Europe appear already to have belonged to one or other of at least two very distinct races. One of these races was of a very high type indeed; it was tall and big brained. One of the women’s skulls found exceeds in capacity that of the average man to day. One of the men’s skeletons is over six feet in height. The physical type resembled that of the North American Indian…
. They were savages, but savages of a high order. from ‘The First True Men’ When H. G. Wells published this popular history of planet Earth in 1922, the highest off the surface humans had reached was seven miles, barely 37,000 feet; the best guess at the planet’s age was merely ‘more than’ 2 billion years; the beginnings of organic life on Earth were still little understood. But with all the confidence of his immense genius and wide ranging appreciation for all things scientific, Wells presents a readable, concise survey of the state of knowledge at his time about the planet and human presence upon it. Wells asks that you read this hefty 1922 work adapted from his two volume Outline of History, published in 1920 ‘straightforwardly almost as a novel is read,’ and indeed, this story of Earth, from its very formation and the first appearance of ho*mo sapiens through the Russian Revolution and the reconstruction after World War I, reads like the most thrilling adventure story ever told. Though it has been factually supplanted by scholarship that came after it, this remains an engaging history, a classic of science fact from one of the fathers of modern science fiction. British author HERBERT GEORGE WELLS 1866 1946 is best known for his groundbreaking science fiction novels The Time Machine 1895, The Invisible Man 1897, and The War of the Worlds 1898.

Washington and the Riddle of Peace / Washington and the Hope of Peace

T his fate is not threatening civilization; it is happening to civilization before our eyes. The ship of civilization is not going to sink in five years’ time or in fifty years’ time. It is sinking now. from ‘The Immensity of the Issue and the Triviality of Man’ In the wake of World War I, the victor nations came together to shape the postwar era…
and in doing so, laid the ground for the next great war. That was already obvious in 1921, when H. G. Wells gathered in one volume his essays for the New York World, the Chicago Tribune, and other American and European newspapers written in reaction to what he saw and heard at the Washington Conference to organize the peace. Though known, along with Jules Verne, as one of the 19th century fathers of science fiction, here Wells explores more down to earth issues, from the ‘problem’ of Russia and Japan and how little could hope to be accomplished at this conference without their participation to the ‘economic decadence’ of the world and how to arrest it. Wells’ intriguing foresight shines through, making this a fascinating document of the international disaster of the World Wars. British author HERBERT GEORGE WELLS 1866 1946 is best known for his groundbreaking science fiction novels The Time Machine 1895, The Invisible Man 1897, and The War of the Worlds 1898. ALSO FROM COSIMO: Wells’s God the Invisible King, A Short History of the World, and The Soul of a Bishop.

The Open Conspiracy: What Are We To Do With Our Lives?

This is a guidebook on world control and management, a program that Wells believed should be orchestrated and would be successful through what he called the ‘Open Conspiracy’. This conspiracy is fully outlined in this work and is designed to be run by many separate organizations working together, as opposed to being run by just one group. Is this required reading for the world’s most powerful people? Maybe it is. Or maybe it should be. Wells was a visionary and genius whose work should be paid attention to. Chapters include The Idea of the Open Conspiracy, We Have to Clear and Clean Up Our Minds, The Revolution in Education, Religion in the New World, What Mankind Has to Do, Modern Forces Antagonistic to the Open Conspiracy, The Resistances of the Less Industrialized Peoples to the Drive of the Open Conspiracy, The Open Conspiracy Begins as a Movement of Discussion, Explanation and Propaganda, Development of the Activities of the Open Conspiracy, Human Life in the Coming World Community, and more.

The Open Conspiracy and Other Writings

WHAT ARE WE TO DO WITH OUR LIVES CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I The Present Crisis in Human Affairs i II The Idea of the Open Conspiracy 9 III We Have to Clear and Clean Up Our Minds 14 IV The Revolution in Education 23 V Religion in the New World 2 5 VI Modern Religion is Objective 34 VII What Mankind Has to Do 39 VIII Broad Characteristics of a Scientific World Commonweal 45 IX No Stable Utopia Is Now Conceivable 60 X The Open Conspiracy Is Not to Be Thought of as a Single Organization It Is a Conception of Life ottt of which Efforts, Organizations, and new Orientations Will Arise 61 XI Forces and Resistances in the Great Modern Communities Now Preva lent, which Are Antagonistic to the Open Conspiracy. The War with Tradition 69 XII The Resistances of the Less Industrial ized Peoples to the Drive of the Open Conspiracy 86 C ONTENTS CHAPTER PAO1 XIII Resistances and Antagonistic Forces in Our Conscious and Unconscious Selves 97 XIV The Open Conspiracy Begins as a Movement of Discussion, Explana tion, and Propaganda 106 XV Early Constructive Work of the Open Conspiracy 114 XVI Existing and Developing Movements which Are Contributory to the Open Conspiracy and which Must Develop a Common Consciousness. The Par able of Provinder Island 127 XVII The Creative Home, Social Group, and School the Present Waste of Ideal istic Will 136 XVIII Progressive Development of the Activi ties of the Open Conspiracy into a World Control and Commonweal The Hazards of the Attempt 140 XIX Human Life in the Coming World Community 146 The Present Crisis in Human Affairs THE world is undergoing immense changes. Never be fore have the conditions of life changed so swiftly and enormously as they have changed for mankind in the last fifty years. We have been carried along with no means of measuring the increasing swiftness in the suc cession of events. We are only now beginning to realize the force and strength of the storm of change that has come upon us. These changes have not come upon our world from without. No huge meteorite from outer space has struck our planet there have been no overwhelming outbreaks of volcanic violence or strange epidemic diseases the sun has not flared up to excessive heat or suddenly shrunken to plunge us into Arctic winter. The changes have come through men themselves. Quite a small num ber of people, heedless of the ultimate consequences of what they did, one man here and a group there, have made discoveries and produced and adopted inventions that have changed all the conditions of social life. We are now just beginning to realize the nature of these changes, to find words and phrases for them and put them down. First they began to happen, and then we began to see that they were happening. And now we are beginning to see how these changes are con nected together and to get the measure of their conse quences. We are getting our minds so clear about4Eem What are we to do with our Lives that soon we shall be able to demonstrate them and explain them to our children in our schools. We do not do so at present. We do not give our children a chance of discovering that they live in a world of universal change. What are the broad lines upon which these alterations of condition are proceeding It will be most convenient to deal with them in the order in which they came to be realized and seen clearly, rather than by the order in which they came about or by their logical order. They are more or less inter dependent changes they overlap and interact. It was only in the beginning of the twentieth century that people began to realize the real significance of that aspect of our changing conditions to which the phrase the abolition of distance has been applied. For a whole century before that there had been a continual increase in the speed and safety of travel and transport and the ease and swiftness with which messages could be transmitted, but this increase had not seemed to be a matter of primary importance…

The Conquest of Time

The Conquest of Time: Time is the one thing that governs our very being whether young or old, at the end of our days or just starting out in life, time is a fixed quantity. Measurable and exact, it orders our days and instructs our activity with a rigid and monotonous regularity. But what if time were to become fluid? If the hands on the sundial could be altered to speed on to the next day, or to revert to our yesterdays? Wouldn t this have immeasurable implications on every aspect of our lives? And if time becomes transient, the concept of death must surely take on a very different flavour. Once the controlling force of time has been usurped, a whole host of philosophical questions come into play questions that H G Wells ponders with remarkable dexterity. The Happy Turning: A Dream of Life: The fantasies of dreamland go an immeasurable way beyond what is now conceivable and practical. As an escape from the horrors of the final days of the Second World War, H G Wells turns his thoughts to the dream world a world unbound by the logic and reason of earthly matter and a world where he can come face to face with deities and supernatural beings. The fantasy he conceives is intelligent, exotic and thoroughly entertaining.

Crux Ansata

Besides writing science fiction like The War of the Worlds and The Invisible Man, Wells was deeply interested in history and current events. This book was written during World War II, after he had resigned as Minister of Allied Propaganda. While in this position he became privy to information that shocked him concerning the Roman Catholic Church. Much of what he found is in this book. After it was released a loud protest came from the Roman Catholic press accusing Wells, a respected writer, of spreading half truths, innuendoes, and logical fallacies. He responded by saying that the church routinely engages in a complex, modern boycott of liberal thought that requires us to fight this intolerance with our own intolerance of the Roman Catholic system. For the most part, this book has been swept under the rug of history because Wells offers credibility to an opposing view.

The Conquest of Time and The Happy Turning

The Conquest Of Time: Time is the one thing that governs our very being whether young or old, at the end of our days or just starting out in life, time is a fixed quantity. Measurable and exact, it orders our days and instructs our activity with a rigid and monotonous regularity. But what if time were to become fluid? If the hands on the sundial could be altered to speed on to the next day, or to revert to our yesterdays? Wouldn t this have immeasurable implications on every aspect of our lives? And if time becomes transient, the concept of death must surely take on a very different flavour. Once the controlling force of time has been usurped, a whole host of philosophical questions come into play questions that H G Wells ponders with remarkable dexterity. The Happy Turning: A Dream of Life: The fantasies of dreamland go an immeasurable way beyond what is now conceivable and practical. As an escape from the horrors of the final days of the Second World War, H G Wells turns his thoughts to the dream world a world unbound by the logic and reason of earthly matter and a world where he can come face to face with deities and supernatural beings. The fantasy he conceives is intelligent, exotic and thoroughly entertaining.

50 Great Short Stories

50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world’s finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan, and O Connor. The variety in style and subject is enormous, but all these stories have one point in common the enduring quality of the writing, which places them among the masterpieces of the world s fiction.

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II A

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, honored the best of science fiction’s early short stories. This volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas written between 1929 to 1964 and contains eleven great classics. There is no better anthology that captures the birth of science fiction as a literary field.

Published in 1973 to honor novellas that had come before the institution of the Nebula Awards, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame introduced tens of thousands of young readers to the wonders of science fiction and was a favorite of libraries across the country.

This volume contains novellas by Poul Anderson, John W. Campbell Jr., Lester del Rey, Robert A. Heinlein, C. M. Kornbluth, Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore, Eric Frank Russell, Cordwainer Smith, Theodore Sturgeon, H. G. Wells, and Jack Williamson.

Tainted: Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

Collected within are thirteen tales of horror and the macabre. Five classic works by author’s such as Edgar Allen Poe and H.G. Wells have inspired a new generation of twisted authors, tainted them, if you will. Keep the lights on; Tainted is loaded with darkness.

The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction

The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction features over a 150 years’ worth of the best science fiction ever collected in a single volume. The fifty two stories and critical introductions are organized chronologically as well as thematically for classroom use. Filled with luminous ideas, otherworldly adventures, and startling futuristic speculations, these stories will appeal to all readers as they chart the emergence and evolution of science fiction as a modern literary genre. They also provide a fascinating look at how our Western technoculture has imaginatively expressed its hopes and fears from the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century to the digital age of today. A free online teacher’s guide at www. wesleyan. edu/wespress/sfanthologyguide accompanies the anthology and offers access to a host of pedagogical aids for using this book in an academic setting. The stories in this anthology have been selected and introduced by the editors of Science Fiction Studies, the world’s most respected journal for the critical study of science fiction.

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