The most influential time travel story ever published.

Wells is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposely and selectively forwards or backwards in time. 

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 Wells, H. G. (2014). The time machine. New York: Signet Classic.

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Contemporary Fantasy

Written in 1895, this novel features an angel—a creature of fantasy unlike a religious angel—as the protagonist and takes place in contemporary England.

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Wells, H. G. (2009). The wonderful visit. Memphis: General Books.

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An Obsession with Creation

A tale that can be viewed in many ways as it multiple layers of social theory, master race evolution, and political theory, which makes it much more interesting than at first would appear.

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Wells, H. G., Ray, G. N., Heinemann (Firm),, & T. and A. Constable,. (1896). The island of Doctor Moreau. London: William Heinemann.

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The New Freedom of Bicycles

Written at the height of the cycling craze (1890–1905), when practical, comfortable bicycles first became widely and cheaply available and before the rise of the automobile.

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Wells, H. G. (2010). The wheels of chance. Champagne, Ill.: Book Jungle.

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A Grostesque Romance

A stranger wrapped in bandages arrives in town. He never removes his coat, glasses, or hat. Almost simultaneously, stories begin to circulate about an Invisible Man roaming around town. Is the stranger a madman or a man simply trying to survive in an unlikely predicament?

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Wells, H. G. (2010). The invisible man. Memphis, Tennessee: General Books.

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The Best and Worst of Mankind

The Earth comes under attack by the inhabitants of its closest celestial neighbor, Mars.

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Wells, H. G. (2017). The War of the Worlds. Ulverscroft Large Print Books.

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A Modern Day Rip Van Winkle

A man who dreams of the twentieth century is stricken with insomnia. Resorting to medication to help him sleep, he falls into a deep sleep that lasts two hundred years and wakes up as the richest man in the world.

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Wells, H. G. (2010). When the sleeper wakes. Miami, FL: HardPress Publishing.

Considered among his first fictional writings outside the science fiction genre, Wells wrote of a young science student named Mr Lewisham who struggles to further himself through academic achievement. When his former sweetheart returns, he finds his life turned upside down.

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Wells, H. G. (2010). Love and Mr Lewisham: The story of a very young couple. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

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Satire on Imperialism

Two English gentlemen escape their boring lives only to be captured by moon-dwelling Selenites. They must confront their own size when viewed in a cosmic perspective.

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Wells, H. G. (2017). The first men in the moon. Lanham: Dancing Unicorn Books.

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Visited by a Mermaid

For the fashionable and affluent Randolph Buntings, it was just another day at the beach - that was until Fred spotted a mysterious lady in a red dress and bathing-cap getting into difficulties far out at sea. Embarking on a brave and daring rescue attempt, Fred waded in and brought her safely to shore. Later they spot that this lady wasn’t quite ‘normal’ - she had a tail.

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Wells, H. G. (2007). The sea lady. New Delhi: Rupa & Co.

One of his lesser known works, The Food of the Gods is divided into three “books”: “Book I: The Discovery of the Food”; “Book II: The Food in the Village”; and “Book III: The Harvest of the Food.”

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Wells, H. G. (2013). The food of the gods. New York: Hesperus Press Ltd.

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The Story of a Simple Soul

Part of the "Everyman" series, this novel recounts the social ascent of a shop assistant and his painful adaptation to the new standards forced upon him.

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Wells, H. G. (2010). Kipps. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

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The novel is best known for its notion that a voluntary order of nobility known as the Samurai could effectively rule a "kinetic and not static" world state so as to solve "the problem of combining progress with political stability."

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Wells, H. G. (1920). A modern utopia. Leipzig: Tauchnitz.

Science Fiction

The strange vapors of a nearby comet begin to alter the air of Earth itself, engendering an incredible, long-lasting transformation in the way people think.

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Wells, H. G. (1927). In the days of the comet. London: Ernest Benn.

The War in the Air, a military science fiction novel by H. G. Wells,  is like many of Wells's works notable for its prophetic ideas, images, and concepts—in this case, the use of the aircraft for the purpose of warfare and the coming of World War I.

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Wells, H. G. (2005). The war in the air. Cirencester: Echo Library.

Describes the rebellion of Ann Veronica Stanley, "a young lady of nearly two-and-twenty," against her middle-class father's stern patriarchal rule. The novel dramatizes the contemporary problem of the New Woman. 

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Wells, H. G. (1900). Ann Veronica. New York: P. Smith.

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Tono-Bungay is narrated by George Ponderevo, who is persuaded to help develop the business of selling Tono-Bungay, a patent medicine created by his ambitious uncle Edward. George devotes seven years to organising the production and manufacture of a product which he believes to be "a damned swindle".

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Wells, H. G. (1908). Tono-Bungay. New York: Street & Smith.

The protagonist of The History of Mr. Polly is an antihero inspired by H. G. Wells' early experiences in the drapery trade: Alfred Polly, born circa 1870, a timid and directionless young man living in Edwardian England, who despite his own bumbling achieves contented serenity with little help from those around him.

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Wells, H. G. (2010). The history of Mr. Polly. Charleston, S.C.: Bibliobazaar.

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The revised edition of When the Sleeper Awakes originally published in 1899.

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Wells, H. G., Parrinder, P., & Sawyer, A. (2005). The sleeper awakes. London: Penguin Books.

Serialized in The English Review in 1910, the main character, Remington, undertakes the editing of an influential political weekly and returns to parliament on a platform advocating the state endowment of mothers, but his career is wrecked by his love affair with a brilliant young Oxford graduate.

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Wells, H. G. (1900). The new Machiavelli. London: Collins.

The novel treats satirically the absurd artificiality of Edwardian literature, reform movements, social life, and so on. The social sphere that Wells portrays in Marriage is that of the wealthy bourgeoisie.

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Wells, H. G. (1926). Marriage. London: T. Fisher Unwin.

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The protagonist is the novel's first-person narrator, Stephen Stratton. The Passionate Friends is written as if addressed to Stephen's eldest son, who is on the verge of adolescence. Stephen is the only child of a rector who loses his faith due to Darwinism

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Wells, H. G., & Boots Pure Drug Company,. (1931). The passionate friends. Nottingham: Boots Pure Drug Co., Ltd.

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The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman is also an extensive satire of many aspects of British society on the eve of World War I.

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Wells, H. G. (1925). The wife of Sir Isaac Harman. London: Collins.

The book is based on a prediction of nuclear weapons of a more destructive and uncontrollable sort than the world has yet seen.

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Wells, H. G. (1914). The world set free: A story of mankind. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz.

Bealby is the story of the escapade of a thirteen-year-old boy when he rebels against his placement as a steward's-room boy in the great house of an estate named Shonts (his stepfather, Mr. Darling, is a gardener there) and flees—not, however, before thoroughly upsetting a weekend party where the nouveau riche couple renting Shonts is entertaining the Lord Chancellor.

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Wells, H. G. (1945). Bealby ... Tenth edition. London: Methuen & Co.

A Satire

First published under the pseudonym Reginald Bliss, the satire is aimed at those who engage in literary pomposity and pretentious high-mindedness.

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Wells, H. G. (1915). Boon: The mind of the race, The wild asses of the devil, and The last trump ; being a first selection from the literary remains of George Boon, appropriate to the times, prepared for publication by Reginald Bliss. With an ambiguous introd. by H.G. Wells. New York: G.H. Doran.

The text of this novel of ideas presents itself as a book that has been written as the result of a promise to a dying man. 

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Wells, H. G. (2003). The research magnificent. Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Co.

Tells the story of a renowned writer, Mr. Britling, a protagonist who is quite evidently an alter ego of the author.

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Wells, H. G. (1917). Mr. Britling sees it through: In two volumes. Paris: Louis Conard.

A Novel (With just a Little Love in It) about Conscience and Religion and the Real Troubles of Life.

Tells the story of a spiritual crisis that leads Edward Scrope, Lord Bishop of Princhester, to give up his diocese in England's industrial heartland and leave the Anglican Church.

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Wells, H. G. (1907). The Soul of a bishop: A Novel (with just a little love in It) about conscience and religion and the real troubles of life. London: Cassel & C°.

1918 novel by H. G. Wells, is at once a satirical portrait of late-Victorian and Edwardian England, a critique of the English educational system on the eve of World War I, a study of the impact of that war on English society, and a general reflection on the purposes of education. Wells regarded it as "one of the most ambitious" of his novels.

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Wells, H. G. (1974). Joan and Peter. Portway, Bath: C. Chivers.

1919 novel by H. G. Wells, is a modern retelling of the story of Job.

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Wells, H. G. (2014). The undying fire: A contemporary novel. Lavergne, TN: Nabu Press.

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Wells, H. G. (1922). The secret places of the heart. London: Cassell.

 A novel — referred to by the author as a "scientific fantasy". It features a utopia located in a parallel universe.

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Wells, H. G. (1923). Men like gods : a novel. New York: The Macmillan Company.

1924 novel by H. G. Wells about a man from a Utopian future who dreams the entire life of an Englishman from the Victorian and Edwardian eras, Harry Mortimer Smith

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Wells, H. G. (2010). The dream: A novel. Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger Publishing.

Novel by H. G. Wells set in London and environs in 1920–1922 with two protagonists: Albert Edward Preemby and his daughter, Christina Alberta.

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Wells, H. G. (1926). Christina Alberta's father. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz.

1926 novel by H. G. Wells published initially in three volumes.

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Wells, H. G. (2001). The world of William Clissold. London: House of Stratus.

1927 novel by H. G. Wells set in an Italian villa early in 1926. 

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Wells, H. G. (1927). Meanwhile: The picture of a ady.l Leipzig: Tauchnitz.

A children's book with illustrations by H.G. Wells

Written in 1898; dedicated to his doctor's daughter.

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Wells, H. G. (1967). The adventures of Tommy. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Being the Story of a Gentleman of Culture and Refinement who suffered Shipwreck and saw no Human Beings other than Cruel and Savage Cannibals for several years. How he beheld Megatheria alive and made some notes of their Habits. How he became a Sacred Lunatic. How he did at last escape in a Strange Manner from the Horror and Barbarities of Rampole Island in time to fight in the Great War, and how afterwards he came near returning to that Island for ever. With much Amusing and Edifying Matter concerning Manners, Customs, Beliefs, Warfare, Crime, and a Storm at Sea. Concluding with some Reflections upon Life in General and upon these Present Times in Particular.

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Wells, H. G., & Bernhard Tauchnitz Verlag. (1929). Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz.

Mr. Parham is a university don with right-wing politics who dreams of finding a rich benefactor to finance a review he can edit.

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Wells, H. G. (2009). The autocracy of Mr. Parham. Kelly Bray, Cornwall: House of Stratus.

A 1932 novel by H. G. Wells, is a character study analyzing the psychological sources of resistance to Wellsian ideology, and was influenced by Wells's acquaintance with Carl Gustav Jung and his ideas.

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Wells, H. G. (n.d.). The bulpington of blup: Adventures, poses, stresses,conflicts and disaster in a contemporary brain. London: Hutchinson & Co.

A work of science fiction by H. G. Wells, published in 1933, which speculates on future events from 1933 until the year 2106. In the book, a world state is established as the solution to humanity's problems.

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Wells, H. G. (1967). The shape of things to come. London:  Transworld.

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The Croquet Player is a 1936 novella by H. G. Wells, "a sort of ghost story."

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Wells, H. G., & Huntington, J. (2004). The croquet player. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Brynhild is principally a literary satire in which Wells mocks developments in the contemporary literary scene in Great Britain, especially with respect to publicity.The novel also scrutinizes marital misunderstanding in a comic vein.

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Wells, H. G. (1937). Brynhild, or, The show of things. New York: C. Scribner's Sons.

It tells the story of a series of men who conjecture upon the possibility of the human race being altered, by genetic modification, by Martians to replace their own dying planet.

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Wells, H. G., & Huntington, J. (2006). Star begotten: A biological fantasia. Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University Press.

Education and its Place in Society

The story begins with an amusing sketch of a dyed-in-the-wool scholar, the master of Holy Innocents College, a preserver of culture, of true scholarship, born to appreciate without ever creating. ~ Nature, February 12, 1938

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Wells, H. G. (1937). The Camford visitation. London: Methuen & Co.

Stephen Wilbeck leads a carefree life. 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.

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Wells, H. G. (2002). Apropos of Dolores. London: House of Stratus.

In a land torn apart by civil war, Bolaris was fiercely loyal to the Strong Men. So when Number Four informed him that Ratzel, leader of the enemy, had been captured, it was naturally a cause for celebration.

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Wells, H. G. (1938). The brothers: A story. New York: Viking Press.

When Cook's newborn baby entered the world, he had nothing but hope for its future.

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Wells, H. G. (1939). The Holy Terror. New York: Simon and Schuster.

A Novel of Ideas

Stella has the world at her feet - good looks, brains, and a place at Cambridge University. Together with her admirer Gemini, she becomes interested in the work and mind of a psycho-therapist with exciting new ideas. However, when tragedy encroaches on their lives they soon come to realize that intellectualism brings little comfort or solace.

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Wells, H. G. (1940). Babes in the darkling wood. London: Secker & Warburg.

Allegory

The last of his utopian works, this allegorical novella spins a modernized version of the tale of Noah and the Flood.

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Wells, H. G. (1941). All aboard for Ararat. New York: Alliance Book Corporation.

A Satire

A satirical novel of one Englishman, a Mr. Edward Albert Tewler, from cradle to grave and his thoughts on religion, politics, education and sex.

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Wells, H. G. (1946). You can't be too careful: A sample of life, 1901-1951. Berne: Phoenix Pub. Co.

A humorous comic-strip narrative drawn by Wells at age 12-13

Wells, H. G., & Ray, G. N. (1957). The Desert Daisy ... With an introduction by Gordon N. Ray. [A facsimile of the original manuscript in the Library of the University of Illinois.]. Beta Phi Mu: Urbana.