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Herbert George Wells

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Herbert George Wells (1866 — 1946). English writer. ~ Biography ~ Works on Wikisource

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Herbert George Wells (1866 — 1946). Escritor inglés. ~ Biografía ~ Obras en Wikisource

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Herbert George Wells (1866 — 1946). Écrivain britannique. ~ Biographie ~ Œuvres sur Wikisource

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Герберт Джордж Уэллс (1866 — 1946). английский писатель. ~ Биография ~ Произведения в Викитеке

Works

(English)  The works of this author are in the public domain in Canada, but may still be copyrighted in the USA and some countries in Europe. It is the responsibility of the user to determine whether the works are in the public domain in his or her respective country.

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English

• Pre-1923 works: see Wikisource.

• Men Like Gods: A Novel (1923)
• Socialism and the Scientific Motive (1923)
• To the Electors of London University, University General Election, 1923, from H. G. Wells, B.Sc., London (1923)
• The Labour Ideal of Education (1923)
• A Walk Along the Thames Embankment (1923)
• The Story of a Great School Master (1924)
• The Dream: A Novel (1924)
• The P.R. Parliament (1924)
• A Year of Prophesying (1924)
• Christina Alberta's Father (1925)
• A Forecast of the World's Affairs (1925)
• The World of William Clissold: A Novel at a New Angle, I, II, III (1926)
• Mr. Belloc Objects to the 'Outline of History' (1926)
• Mr. Wells and Mr. Vowles (1926), letter to the Editor of The New Age Vol. XXXVM, no. 24, p. 251. Letter concerning troublesome collaboration with Hugh Pembroke Vowles.
• Democracy Under Revision (1927)
• Playing at Peace (1927)
• Meanwhile: The Picture of a Lady (1927)
• The Stolen Body (1927)
• The Short Stories of H. G. Wells (1927) (later retitled The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells and subsequently updated in 1998)
  • includes A Vision of Judgment
• The Way the World is Going: Guesses & Forecasts of the Years Ahead (1928)
• The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution (1928, 1930 [subtitled A Second Version of This Faith of a Modern Man Made More Explicit and Plain], 1933 [no subtitle]), also published under the title What are We to do With our Lives? 1931)
• Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island: 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 (1928)
• The Book of Catherine Wells (1928) (edited by Wells)
• The King Who Was A King: The Book of a Film (US subtitle An Unconventional Novel) (1929)
• Common Sense of World Peace (1929)
• The Adventures of Tommy (1929)
• Imperialism and The Open Conspiracy (1929)
• The Autocracy of Mr. Parham: His Remarkable Adventures in this Changing World (1930)
• The Science of Life: A Summary of Contemporary Knowledge about Life and its Possibilities, I, II, III (with Julian S. Huxley and G. P. Wells) (1930) (subsequently reissued in nine volumes, 1934-1937, under the general title The 'Science of Life' Series)
• The Way to World Peace (1930)
• The Problem of the Troublesome Collaborator: An Account of Certain Difficulties in an Attempt to Produce a Work in Collaboration and of the Intervention of the Society of Authors Therein (1930)
• Settlement of the Trouble between Mr. Thring and Mr. Wells: A Footnote to the Problem of the Troublesome Collaborator (1930)
• What Are We To Do With Our Lives? (revision of The Open Conspiracy) (1931)
• The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind (USA 1931; first UK edition, 1932)
• After Democracy: Addresses and Papers on the Present World Situation (1932)
• The Bulpington of Blup: Adventures, Poses, Stresses, Conflicts, and Disaster in a Contemporary Brain (1932)
• What Should be Done Now? (1932)
• The Shape of Things to Come: The Ultimate Revolution (1933)
• Experiment in Autobiography: Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (since 1866), I, II (1934) (a third volume, entitled H. G. Wells in Love was published posthumously in 1984)
• Stalin-Wells Talk: The Verbatim Record and a Discussion (with Josef Stalin, George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Keynes, Ernst Toller and Dora Russell (1934)
• The New America: The New World (1935)
• Things to Come: A Film Story (1935)
• The Anatomy of Frustration: A Modern Synthesis (1936)
• The Croquet Player (1936)
• The Idea of a World Encyclopaedia (1936)
• The Man Who Could Work Miracles: A Film (1936)
• Star Begotten: A Biological Fantasia (US title, Star-Begotten) (1937)
• Brynhild, or the Show of Things (1937)
• The Camford Visitation (1937)
• The Informative Content of Education (1937)
• The Brothers: A Story (1938)
• World Brain (1938)
• Apropos of Dolores (1938)
• The Holy Terror (1939)
• Travels of a Republican Radical in Search of Hot Water (1939)
• The Fate of Homo Sapiens: An unemotional Statement of the Things that are happening to him now, and of the immediate Possibilities confronting him (US title: The Fate of Man) (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 (1939)
• The Rights of Man, Or What Are We Fighting For? (1940)
• Babes in the Darkling Wood (1940)
• The Common Sense of War and Peace: World Revolution of War Unending (1940)
• All Aboard for Ararat (1940)
• Guide to the New World: A Handbook of Constructive World Revolution (1941)
• You Can't Be Too Careful (1941)
• The Outlook for Homo Sapiens: An unemotional Statement of the Things that are happening to him now, and of the immediate Possibilities confronting him (1942) (this is an amalgamation of The Fate of Homo Sapiens and The New World Order)
• Science and the World-Mind (1942)
• Phoenix: A Summary of the Inescapable Conditions of World Reorganization (1942)
• A Thesis on the Quality of Illusion in the Continuity of Individual Life of the Higher Metazoa, with Particular Reference to the Species Homo Sapiens (1942)
• The Conquest of Time (1942)
• The New Rights of Man: Text of Letter to Wells from Soviet Writer, Who Pictures the Ordeal and Rescue of Humanistic Civilization - H. G. Wells's Reply and Program for Liberated Humanity (with Lev Uspensky) (1942)
• Crux Ansata: An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church (1943)
• The Mosley Outrage (1943)
• The Rights of Man: An Essay in Collective Definition (edited anonymously by Wells) (1943)
• '42 to '44: A Contemporary Memoir upon Human Behaviour during the Crisis of the World Revolution (1944)
• The Illusion of Personality (1944)
• The Happy Turning: A Dream of Life (1945)
• Mind at the End of Its Tether (1945)
• The Desert Daisy (posthumous publication of a work written in c. 1878-1880) (1957)
• The Wealth of Mr Waddy (posthumous publication of a work written in c. 1898-1905, which Wells revised and published as Kipps, edited by Harris Wilson) (1969)
• H. G. Wells in Love (posthumous third volume of his autobiography, edited by G. P. Wells) (1984)
• The Betterave Papers and Aesop's Quinine for Delphi, edited by John Hammond (2001)

French translations

• La Machine à explorer le temps (The Time Machine) (1895)
• L’Île du docteur Moreau (The Island of Doctor Moreau) (1896)
• L’Homme invisible (The Invisible Man) (1897)
• La Guerre des mondes (The War of Worlds) (1898)
• Anticipations (1901)
• Les Premiers Hommes dans la lune (1901)
• Miss Waters (The Sea Lady) (1902)
• Le Pays des Aveugles (The Country of the Blind) (1904)
• La Burlesque Équipée du cycliste (1906)
• Au temps de la comète (1906)
• Monsieur Britling commence à voir clair (1916)
• Dieu l'invisible roi (1917)
• La Flamme immortelle (1919)