Author:Herbert George Wells

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Herbert George Wells (1866–1946)

sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons gallery, quotes. A British writer best known for his science fiction novels, he was arguably one of the most prolific writers in the history of literature, and wrote works in nearly every genre, including short stories and nonfiction. The icon  identifies that the work includes a spoken word version.

Herbert George Wells

Works

Novels

• The Time Machine, (1895)
• The Wonderful Visit, (1895)
• The Island of Doctor Moreau, (1896)
• The Wheels of Chance, (1896)
• The Invisible Man, (1897)
• The War of the Worlds, (1898)
• The First Men in the Moon, (1901)
• The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth, (1904)
• Kipps (1905)
• The War in the Air, (1908)
• Tono-Bungay, (1909)
• Ann Veronica, (1909)
• The Sleeper Awakes, (1899, rewritten 1910)
• In the Days of the Comet, (1906)
• The History of Mr. Polly, (1910)
• The Soul of a Bishop, (1917)
• Mankind in the Making
• The Shape of Things to Come: The Ultimate Revolution (1933) (on Wikilivres)

Short Stories

• Æpyornis Island
• The Beautiful Suit (also called A Moonlight Fable)
• The Chronic Argonauts (1888)
• The Cone
• The Country of the Blind (1911)
• The Crystal Egg (1897)
• A Deal in Ostriches (1894)
• The Diamond Maker
• The Discovery of the Future
• The Door in the Wall
• A Dream of Armageddon (1901)
• The Empire of the Ants (1905)
• The Flowering of the Strange Orchid
• The Flying Man (1893)
• Filmer (1901)
• In the Avu Observatory
• In the Days of the Comet (pre-1907)
• The Jilting of Jane (1894)
• Jimmy Goggles the God
• The Lord of the Dynamos
• The Magic Shop (1903)
• The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1898)
• Miss Winchelsea's Heart
• A Moth—Genus Novo
• Mr. Brisher's Treasure
• Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation
• Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland
• The New Accelerator (1901)
• New Worlds for Old, 1913(?)
• The Obliterated Man
• The Plattner Story
• The Purple Pileus
• The Red Room
• The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes
• The Sea Lady (pre-1907)
• The Sea Raiders (1896)
• A Slip Under the Microscope
• The Star (1897)
• The Stolen Bacillus (1895)
• The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost
• The Stolen Body (1927) (on wikilivres)
• The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham
• The Temptation of Harringay (1895)
• Through a Window (1894)
• The Treasure in the Forest
• The Truth About Pyecraft (1903)
• The Triumphs of a Taxidermist (1894)
• Under the Knife (1896)
• The Valley of Spiders (1909)
• A Vision of Judgment (1927) (on Wikilivres)

Short story collections

• The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents (1895)

Other

• Floor Games (pre-1913)
• Little Wars (1913)
• The World Set Free (1914)
• Will Socialism Destroy the Home?, pre-1909
• Washington and the Riddle of Peace
• Outline of History[1]
• A Short History of the World[2]
• Zoological Retrogression (1891)
• What is Coming, 1918
• Anticipation
• Mankind in the Making
• A Modern Utopia

Transcription projects

• Index:The Soul of a Bishop.djvu
• Index:The Stolen Bacillus.djvu

Works about this author

• “Wells, Herbert George” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Wells, Herbert George” in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1946, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 60 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.