H.G. Wells Bibliography

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#1
Short Stories
1887
A Tale of the Twentieth Century
1887
A Talk with Gryllotalpa
1887
A Vision of the Past
1888
The Devotee of Art
1893
The Man of the Year Million
1894
Æpyornis Island
1894
A Deal in Ostriches
1894
The Diamond Maker
1894
The Flowering of the Strange Orchid
1894
The Hammerpond Park Burglary
1894
The Lord of the Dynamos
1894
How Gabriel Became Thompson
1894
In the Avu Observatory
1894
In the Modern Vein: An Unsympathetic Love Story
1894
The Jilting of Jane
1894
The Man With a Nose
1894
A Misunderstood Artist
1894
The Stolen Bacillus
1894
The Thing in No. 7
1894
Through a Window
1894
The Thumbmark
1894
The Treasure in the Forest
1894
Triumphs of a Taxidermist
1894
A Family Elopement
1895
The Argonauts of the Air
1895
A Catastrophe
1895
The Cone
1895
How Pingwill Was Routed
1895
Le Mari Terrible
1895
The Moth
1895
Out Little Neighbour
1895
Pollock and the Porroh Man
1895
The Reconciliation
1895
The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes
1895
The Sad Story of a Dramatic Critic
1895
The Temptation of Harringay
1895
Wayde's Essence
1895
The Final Men
1895
The Flying Man
1895
The Grey Man
1896
The Plattner Story
1896
The Apple
1896
In the Abyss
1896
The Purple Pileus
1896
The Rajah's Treasure
1896
The Red Room
1896
The Sea Raiders
1896
A Slip Under the Microscope
1896
The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham
1896
Under the Knife
1897
The Crystal Egg
1897
The Lost Inheritance
1897
Mr. Marshall's Doppelgänger
1897
A Perfect Gentleman on Wheels
1897
The Presence by the Fire
1897
The Star
1897
Invisible in London
1898
Jimmy Goggles the God
1898
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
1898
Miss Winchelsea's Heart
1898
The Stolen Body
1898
Walcote
1898
Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation
1899
Mr. Brisher's Treasure
1899
A Vision of Judgement
1901
Filmer
1901
The New Accelerator
1902
The Inexperienced Ghost
1902
The Loyalty of Esau Common
1903
Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland
1903
The Magic Shop
1903
The Truth About Pyecraft
1903
The Valley of Spiders
1903
The Problem of the Birth Supply
1905
The Empire of the Ants
1906
The Door in the Wall
1909
The Beautiful Suit
1910
Little Mother Up the Morderberg
1910
My First Aeroplane
1915
The Story of the Last Trump
1915
The Wild Asses of the Devil
1920
The Invasion from Mars
1925
The Pearl of Love
1927
How We Made Tono-Bungay Hum
1928
The Adventures of Tommy
1931
A Woman's Heart
1932
The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper
1937
Answer to Prayer
1953
Depouillement - the Door in the Wall
1957
The Experimental Farm
1958
Peter Learns Arithmetic
1965
The Cure for Love
1984
The New Faust
1987
The Time Traveller Visits the Past
2007
The End of All Things
2016
The Haunted Ceiling
 
 
#2
Novelettes
1888
The Chronic Argonauts
1895
Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct)
1903
The Land Ironclads
1903
A Dream of Armageddon
1904
The Country of the Blind
#3
Essays
1891
Zoological Retrogression
1891
The Rediscovery of the Unique
1892
Ancient Experiments in Co-Operation
1893
On Extinction
1894
The Sun God and the Holy Stars
1894
Providence of Pain
1894
Life in the Abyss
1894
Another Basis for Life
1894
The Rate of Change in Species
1894
The Biological Problem of To-day
1894
The 'Cyclic' Delusion
1894
The Flat Earth Again
1895
Bio-Optimism
1895
Bye-Products in Evolution
1895
Death
1895
The Duration of Life
1895
The Visibility of Change in the Moon
1895
The Limits of Individual Plasticity
1895
'Guy Domville' at the St. James's
1896
Human Evolution, an Artificial Process
1896
Intelligence on Mars
1896
Concerning Skeletons
1896
The Possible Individuality of Atoms
1897
Morals and Civilisation
1898
On Comparative Theology
1901
Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought
1901
Certain Social Reactions
1901
Developing Social Elements
1901
Locomotion in the Twentieth Century
1901
The Conflict of Languages
1901
The Larger Synthesis
1901
The Life-History of Democracy
1901
The Probable Diffusion of Great Cities
1901
War in the Twentieth Century
1901
Faith, Morals, and Public Policy of the New Republic
1903
The English House of the Future
1903
Skepticism of the Instrument
1903
Thought in the Modern State
1903
The Man's Own Share
1907
This Misery of Boots
1908
The Things that Live on Mars
1912
My First Flight
1914
Of the New Reign
1914
Off the Chain
1914
The Coming of Biériot
1915
Of Art, of Literature, of Mr. Henry James
1920
An Experiment in Illustration
1921
The Grisly Folk
1923
The Ten Most Important Books in the World
1923
The League of Nations and the Federation of Mankind
1923
The Beauty of Flying
1923
The Future of the British Empire
1923
The Triumph of France
1923
Fifteen-Year-Old Mr. Amery
1923
H.G. Wells on the League of Nations
1923
The Aviation of the Half-Civilised
1923
Will Germany Break Into Pieces?
1923
H.G. Wells Replies to Winston Churchill
1923
H.G. Wells Views on Free Trade
1923
H.G. Wells on the Other Side in France
1923
Politics as a Public Nuisance
1923
The Re-Emergence of Mr. Lloyd George
1923
Spain and Italy Whisper Together
1923
Will Latin-America Leave the League?
1923
Some Fine Words and Bad Passports
1924
Locomotion and Administration, a Paper on Administrative Areas Read Before the Fabian Society
1924
The Case for Republicanism
1924
The Story of a Great Schoolmaster
1924
How We Muddle Through the Tears of Destiny
1924
Preservation of the Party System
1924
Scrapping the Gold Standard
1924
Is Czecho-Slovakia the Hub of Europe?
1924
The Gifts of New Sciences: H.G. Wells Prophesies
1924
The Revival of the Old Learning
1924
An Interview with Lenin
1924
The Fantasies of Mr. Belloc and Future of the World
1924
A Creative Educational Scheme for Britain
1924
Portugal and Prosperity: The Blessedness of Being a Little Nation
1924
The Practical Problem
1924
The Labour Party on Trial: The Folly of the Five Cruisers
1924
Dictators or Politicians? The Dilemma of Civilisation
1924
Youth and the Vote: The Rejuvenescence of the World
1924
Olive Branches of Steel: Should the Angels of Peace Carry Bombs?
1924
The Case of Unamuno: The Feeble Republic of Letters
1924
An Open Letter to Anatole France on His Eightieth Birthday
1924
The European Kaleidoscope: The German Will in Default
1924
Importance of China
1924
Air Armament: The Supremacy of Quality
1924
Labour Politicians: The Evaporation of the Intelligenzia
1924
Constructive Ideas and Their Relation to Current Politics
1924
The Wembley Empire: An Exhibition of Lost Opportunities
1924
Proportional Representation
1924
The Serfdom of Ignorance: The Right of Women to Knowledge
1924
Blinkers for Free Youth: Young America Asks to Hear and See
1924
The Lawlessness of America and the Way to Order
1924
The Shabby Schools of the Pious: Drains and the Odour of Sanctity
1924
The Incompatibility of India: Divorce or Legal Separation
1924
The Spirit of Fascism: Is There Any Good in It at All?
1924
The Race Conflict: Is It Unavoidable?
1924
The Schools of a New Age: A Forecast
1924
The Impudence of Flags: Our Power Resources and My Elephants, Whales, and Gorillas
1924
Has Communism a Future? The Possibility of a Socialist Revolution
1924
Labour's Little Houses
1924
The Triviality of Democracy and the Feminine Influence in Politics
1924
The Antagonism of Sex
1924
Living Through: The Truth About an Interview
1924
The Creative Passion
1924
After a Year of Journalism: An Outbreak of Auto-Obituary
1925
About Chesterton and Belloc
1926
Scepticism of the Instrument
1925
The American Outlook
1925
The Contemporary Novel
1925
The Euphemia Papers
1925
The Ideal Citizen
1926
Mr. Wells and Mr. Vowles
1926
A Memorandum on Peace Propaganda
1926
Democracy
1926
Divorce
1926
The Common-sense of Warfare
1926
The Endowment of Motherhood
1926
The Great State
1926
The League of Free Nations
1926
The Peace of the World
1926
The Possible Collapse of Civilisation
1926
Will the Empire Live?
1927
The Red Dust a Fact!
1927
Democracy Under Revision
1927
Wells Speaks Some Plain Words to Us
1927
History Is One
1927
The Human Adventure
1927
The Ten Great Discoveries
1927
What Is Success?
1929
Common Sense of World Peace
1932
The Future of the Novel
1934
An Evening at the Play
1934
Digression About Novels
1934
H.G. Wells on Reviewers in the 1890s
1936
I Wrote 'Things to Come' for Your Enjoyment
1938
Foretelling the Future
1940
A New Map of the World
1946
Mind Is Retrospective to the End
1946
New Light on the Record of the Rocks
1946
Precocious Maturity, a Method of Survival
1946
Race Suicide by Gigantism
1946
Recent Realisations of the Nature of Life
1946
The Antagonism of Age and Youth
1946
The End Closes upon the Mind
1946
There Is No 'Pattern of Things to Come'
1961
What Comes True
1977
Writing 'The Time Machine'
1981
Woman and Primitive Culture
1982
Utopias
2003
If I Were Dictator of the World
2009
The Extinction of Man: Some Speculative Suggestions
#4
Non-Fiction Books
1893
Text-Book of Biology
1893
Honours Physiography
1902
The Discovery of the Future
1903
Mankind in the Making
1906
The Future in America: A Search After Realities
1906
Socialism and the Family
1908
New Worlds for Old
1908
First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life
1911
Floor Games
1912
The Great State
1912
Great Thoughts from H.G. Wells
1912
Thoughts from H.G. Wells
1913
Little Wars: a Game for Boys from Twelve Years of Age to One Hundred and Fifty and for that More Intelligent Sort of Girl Who Likes Boys' Games and Books
1914
The War That Will End War
1915
The War and Socialism
1915
The Peace of the World
1916
What is Coming?
1916
The Elements of Reconstruction
1917
God the Invisible King
1917
War and the Future
1917
Introduction to Nocturne
1919
The Idea of a League of Nations
1919
The Way to a League of Nations
1920
The Outline of History
1920
Russia in the Shadows
1920
Frank Swinnerton
1921
The Salvaging of Civilization: The Probable Future of Mankind
1922
A Short History of the World
1922
Washington and the Hope of Peace
1923
Socialism and the Scientific Motive
1924
The Story of a Great Schoolmaster: Being a Plain Account of the Life of Sanderson of Oundle
1925
A Short History of Mankind
1926
Mr. Belloc Objects to "The Outline of History"
1927
Wells' Social Anticipations
1928
The Way the World is Going
1928
The Book of Catherine Wells
1928
The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution
1930
The Science of Life
1930
Divorce as I See It
1930
Points of View
1931
The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind
1932
What Should be Done - Now: A Memorandum on the World Situation
1932
After Democracy
1936
The Anatomy of Frustration
1939
The Fate of Homo Sapiens
1939
The New World Order: Whether It Is Attainable, How It Can Be Attained, and What Sort of World a World at Peace Will Have to Be
1940
The Common Sense of War and Peace: World Revolution or War Unending
1940
The Rights of Man: or, What Are We Fighting For?
1941
The Pocket History of the World
1941
Guide to the New World
1942
The Outlook for Homo Sapiens
1942
The Conquest of Time
1942
Modern Russian and English Revolutionaries
1942
Phoenix: A Summary of the Inescapable Conditions of World Reorganization
1943
Crux Ansata: An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church
1944
Reshaping Man's Heritage
1945
Mind at the End of Its Tether
1945
Marxism vs. Liberalism
2021
The Gifts of the New Sciences: H.G. Wells Prophesies
 
 
#5
Novellas
1895
The Time Machine
1897
A Story of the Stone Age
1899
A Story of the Days to Come
1936
The Croquet Player
1937
The Camford Visitation
1940
All Aboard for Ararat
1945
The Happy Turning: A Dream of Life
1957
The Desert Daisy
#7
Novels
1895
The Wonderful Visit
1896
The Island of Doctor Moreau
1896
The Wheels of Chance
1897
The Invisible Man
1898
The War of the Worlds
1899
The Sleeper Awakes
1900
Love and Mr. Lewisham
1901
The First Men in the Moon
1902
The Sea Lady
1904
The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth
1905
Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul
1905
A Modern Utopia
1906
In the Days of the Comet
1908
The War in the Air
1909
Tono-Bungay
1909
Ann Veronica
1910
The History of Mr. Polly
1911
The New Machiavelli
1912
Marriage
1913
The Passionate Friends
1914
The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman
1914
The World Set Free
1915
Bealby: A Holiday
1915
Boon
1915
The Research Magnificent
1916
Mr. Britling Sees It Through
1917
The Soul of a Bishop
1918
Joan and Peter
1919
The Undying Fire
1922
The Secret Places of the Heart
1923
Men Like Gods
1924
The Dream
1925
Christina Alberta's Father
1926
The World of William Clissold
1927
Meanwhile
1928
Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island
1930
The Autocracy of Mr. Parham
1932
The Bulpington of Blup
1933
The Shape of Things to Come
1937
Brynhild
1937
Star Begotten
1938
Apropos of Dolores
1938
The Brothers
1939
The Holy Terror
1940
Babes in the Darkling Wood
1941
You Can't Be Too Careful
1969
The Wealth of Mr. Waddy
 
 
#8
Short Story Collections
1895
Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Other Reminiscences
1895
The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents
1897
Thirty Strange Stories
1897
The Plattner Story and Others
1899
Tales of Speech and Time
1899
A Cure for Love
1903
Twelve Stories and a Dream
1911
The Country of the Blind and Other Stories
1911
The Door in the Wall and Other Stories
1913
The Star
1923
Tales of Wonder
1923
Tales of Life and Adventure
1923
The Country of the Blind
1924
Tales of the Unexpected
1925
The Empire of the Ants and Other Stories
1925
The Obliterated Man and Other Stories
1925
The Stolen Bacillus and Other Stories
1926
The Country of the Blind and Other Stories
1927
The Short Stories of H.G. Wells
1927
Selected Short Stories
1927
The Time Machine and Other Stories
1929
The Treasure in the Forest
1930
The Valley of Spiders
1931
Selections From the Early Prose Works of H.G. Wells
1931
The Stolen Body and Other Tales of the Unexpected
1931
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
1931
The Treasure in the Forest and Other Stories
1931
A Slip Under the Microscope
1931
A Woman's Heart and Other Stories
1931
The Valley of Spiders and Other Stories
1937
The Favorite Short Stories of H.G. Wells
1940
Short Stories by H.G. Wells
1943
The Land Ironclads
1943
The New Accelerator
1943
The Truth About Pyecraft and Other Short Stories
1943
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
1944
The Truth About Pyecraft and Other Stories
1946
The Time Machine: An Invention and Other Stories
1947
The Country of the Blind and Other Stories
1952
28 Science Fiction Stories of H.G. Wells
1953
Seven Stories
1956
Two Tales
1958
Selected Short Stories
1960
Best Stories of H.G. Wells
1963
The Time Machine and Other Stories
1964
The Valley of Spiders
1965
The Cone
1965
The Inexperienced Ghost and Nine Other Stories
1966
Best Science Fiction Stories of H.G. Wells
1966
The Complete Short Stories of H.G. Wells
1975
The Time Machine
1977
Empire of the Ants and 8 Science Fiction Stories
1977
The Empire of the Ants (and Other Stories)
1984
The Man with the Nose and Other Uncollected Stories of H.G. Wells
1990
Short Stories
1990
The Empire of Ants and Other Stories
1997
The Country of the Blind and Other Science-Fiction Stories
1998
The Red Room and Other Stories
2004
Selected Stories of H.G. Wells
2005
The Stolen Bacillus & Other Incidents
2005
The Country of the Blind
2005
The Stolen Bacillus
2006
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
2007
The Country of the Blind and Other Selected Stories
2011
H.G. Wells: Tales of the Weird and Supernatural
2011
The Door in the Wall
2013
The War of the Worlds
2015
A Slip Under the Microscope
2017
The Crystal Egg and Other Stories
2017
The Island of Doctor Moreau & Other Works
2017
Short Stories: Anthology of Classic Tales
2017
A Novel Journal: H.G. Wells
2018
The Amazing Stories Collection
2019
H.G. Wells: The Science Fiction Collection
2019
The Time Machine & Other Stories
2020
The Time Machine
2022
The Country of the Blind: And Other Stories
#9
Essay Collections
1897
Certain Personal Matters: A Collection of Material, Mainly Autobiographical
1901
Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought
1914
An Englishman Looks at the World: Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters
1918
In the Fourth Year
1925
A Year of Prophesying
1927
A Volume of Journalism
1927
The History of the World
1935
The New America: The New World
1938
World Brain
1939
Travels of a Republican Radical in Search of Hot Water
1975
Early Writings in Science and Science Fiction
1980
H.G. Wells's Literary Criticism
 
 
#10
Scripts
1929
The King Who Was a King: The Book of a Film
1935
Things to Come
1936
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
1936
The New Faust
 
 
#11
Autobiographies
1934
Experiment in Autobiography: Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain
1984
H.G. Wells in Love: Postscript to an Experiment in Autobiography
2005
H.G. Wells: A Sketch of His Life and Works
 
 
#12
Memoir
1944
'42 to '44: A Contemporary Memoir
 
 
#13
Writings Collection
1961
The Early H.G. Wells
 
 
#14
Poem
1979
The Rule of the Airmen
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