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This is the tail that has cost many people their lives and will continue to do so. That you are reading this shows that man’s power though great, is not omnipotent. The power men have they covet dear …

In his preface to this book, Wells forecast (incorrectly) that A Modern Utopia would be the last of a series of volumes on social problems that began in 1901 with Anticipations and included Mankind i …

Ann Veronica describes the rebellion of Ann Veronica Stanley against her middle-class father’s stern patriarchal rule. The novel created a sensation when published in the fall of 1909 because of the …

Bealby: A Holiday is a comic novel written by H. G. Wells, first published in 1915. Bealby is a 13 year old boy who rebels against his job of a domestic servant in a ‘great house’ by running away. Du …

In the Days of the Comet is a 1906 science fiction book written by H. G. Wells, about the effects of a comet entering the earth’s atmosphere. This event brings about a great change in humanity, and o …

The First Men in the Moon tells the story of a journey to the moon undertaken by the two protagonists, a businessman narrator, Mr. Bedford, and an eccentric scientist, Mr. Cavor. Bedford and Cavor di …

The Invisible Man is a science fiction novella and tells the story of Griffin. He’s a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and invents a way to change a body’s refractive index t …

The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1904. It is divided into three books. Book 1 introduces Mr Bensington, a research chemist. …

A comic novel first published in 1910. Alfred Polly lives in the imaginary town of Fishbourne in Kent. Chapters 1–6 depict his life up to age 20, when he marries his cousin Miriam Larkins. Chapters 7 …

Man had not yet learned to fly when H.G. Wells conceived this story of a Martian attack on England. Giant cylinders crash to Earth, disgorging huge, unearthly creatures armed with heat-rays and fight …

First serialised in ‘Pearson’s Magazine’, The Sea Lady: A Tissue of Moonshine, by H. G. Wells was published in book form in 1902. It is a fantasy novel about a mermaid who comes ashore on the souther …

The story of Bert Smallways, a brilliant mechanist and accidental aeronaut, who finds himself as a reluctant stowaway upon the Vaterland, an airship piloted by a German Prince. Espionage, intrigue an …

The New Machiavelli was first serialized in The English Review in 1910. Because its plot notoriously derived from Wells’s affair with Amber Reeves and satirized Beatrice and Sidney Webb, it was ‘the …

Boon is a 1915 satirical novel by H. G. Wells, although it purports to be by the fictional character Reginald Bliss (Wells denied authorship for some time after the book was published). The book is a …

Kipps is a H. G. Wells novel, originally published in 1905. It’s the rags to riches story of Arthur Kipps, whose life takes him on a journey from a little shop in Kent and childhood loves, to an inhe …

Marriage is a 1912 novel by H. G. Wells about Marjorie Pope and R.A.G Trafford. The book goes through the history of their relationship and their subsequent marriage and all the adventures that bring …

Mr. Britling Sees It Through is a wartime novel by English writer, H. G. Wells, first published in 1916. One of the most popular novels in the UK and Australia during World War I, it tells the story …

The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, who called it ‘an exercise in youthful blasphemy’. The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecke …

The Passionate Friends: A Novel is a 1913 book by H. G. Wells. Written as a narration by the novel’s protagonist Stephen Stratton, and addressed to his eldest son. The book follows his life, time in …

The Research Magnificent is a 1915 novel by H. G. Wells. William Porphyry Benham inherits a lot of money so that he doesn’t have to work. He wants to live the ‘aristocratic’ life and the book follows …

The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian science fiction novel by H. G. Wells about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London, where, because of compound …

The sci-fi novel that actually gave us the term: ‘time machine’. The book’s protagonist travels to the year A.D. 802, 701, only to find that the state of the human race has changed considerably. He d …

Written in the same vein as ‘Three Men in a Boat’, The Wheels of Chance is a comic novel by H. G. Wells. Written during a cycling craze that swept the nation in the late 1800’s, the novel tells the t …

The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman is a 1913 novel by H. G. Wells. Lady Harman is in a loveless marriage with Sir Isaac. Despite great wealth and 4 children, the relationship is not happy, with Sir Isaac s …

Inspired by Victorian art critic John Ruskin’s remark that an angel appearing on earth in Victorian England would be shot on sight, The Wonderful Visit tells the story of a violin playing angel who c …

The World Set Free is a 1914 novel by H. G. Wells. A futuristic book that describes destructive weapons similar to nuclear ones, that would wipe out everything for miles. H. G. Wells had knowledge of …

Tono-Bungay is a 1909 novel by H. G. Wells. Narrated by George Ponderevo, who is persuaded to help sell Tono-Bungay, a medicine created by his uncle. Although he believes it to be a swindle, he spend …