Collected Works

This comprehensive collection - without images and optimized in file size for quick access - contains:A Modern UtopiaA Short History of the WorldAn Englishman Looks at the World / Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary MattersAnn Veronica: A Modern Love StoryAnticipations / Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and ThoughtBealby; A HolidayBoon, 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 TimesCertain Personal MattersFirst and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of LifeFloor Games; a companion volume to 'Little Wars'God, the Invisible KingIn the Days of the CometIn the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World PeaceJoan and Peter: The story of an educationKipps: The Story of a Simple SoulLittle 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)Love and Mr. LewishamMankind in the MakingMarriageMr. Britling Sees It ThroughRussia in the ShadowsSelect Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other ReminiscencesSocialism and the familyTales of Space and TimeText Book of Biology, VertebrataThe Country of the Blind, and Other StoriesThe Discovery of the FutureThe Door in the Wall, and Other StoriesThe First Men in the MoonThe Food of the Gods and How It Came to EarthThe Future in America: A Search After RealitiesThe History of Mr. PollyThe Invisible Man: A Grotesque RomanceThe Island of Doctor MoreauThe New MachiavelliThe New Teaching of History / With a reply to some recent criticisms of The Outline of HistoryThe Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and MankindThe Plattner Story, and OthersThe Red RoomThe Research MagnificentThe Salvaging Of CivilizationThe Sea LadyThe Secret Places of the HeartThe Sleeper Awakes / A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper WakesThe Soul of a BishopThe Stolen Bacillus and Other IncidentsThe Time MachineThe Undying Fire: A contemporary novelThe War in the AirThe War of the WorldsThe War That Will End WarThe Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling IdyllThe Wife of Sir Isaac HarmanThe Wonderful VisitThe World Set FreeThis Misery of BootsTono-BungayTwelve Stories and a DreamWar and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at WarWashington and the Riddle of PeaceWhat is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the WarWhen the Sleeper WakesHerbert George Wells wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called the 'father of science fiction', along with Jules Verne and the publisher Hugo Gernsback - utopian works and foresaw the advent of aircraft, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, satellite television and something resembling the World Wide Web. His science fiction imagined time travel, alien invasion, invisibility, and biological engineering...