The Collected Works of H. G. Wells E-Book

H G Wells

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This comprehensive eBook presents significant works of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - estimated 25480 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • The Time Machine • The War of the Worlds • The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance • The Island of Doctor Moreau • A Short History of the World • The Red Room • Tales of Space and Time • 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. • The First Men in the Moon • The World Set Free • The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories • The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories • Twelve Stories and a Dream • When the Sleeper Wakes • The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind • Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story • Tono-Bungay • The Time Machine • Astounding Stories of Super-Science January Various • The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth • Text Book of Biology, Part: Vertebrata • The Pivot of CivilizationMargaret Sanger • Anticipations • The Sleeper Awakes • Astounding Stories, May, Various • A Modern Utopia • The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll • The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents • The War in the Air • Mr. Britling Sees It Through • Floor Games; a companion volume to "Little Wars" • Kipps • The New Machiavelli • The History of Mr. Polly • God, the Invisible King • The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance • Marriage • Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor • The Sea Lady • In the Days of the Comet • With the World's Great Travellers, Volume • The Discovery of the Future • The Secret Places of the Heart • What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War • Love and Mr. Lewisham • The Wonderful Visit • The Time Machine • Little Wars (A Game for Boys from twelve years of age to one hundred • Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; • Mankind in the Making • War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War • The Passionate Friends • The War of the Worlds • The Salvaging Of Civilization • The Island of Dr. Moreau • An Englishman Looks at the World • The Research Magnificent • First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life • New Worlds For Old: A Plain Account of Modern Socialism • The Soul of a Bishop • Certain Personal Matters • The Plattner Story and Others • Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences • Maxims and Opinions of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Selected From His Writings and Speeches During a Public Life of More Than Half a CenturyDuke of Arthur Wellesley Wellington • The First Men in the Moon • The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance • The War of the Worlds • War of the Worlds • Little Wars • Twelve Stories and a Dream • In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace • The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman •. etc.

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Table of Contents

The Time Machine

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

XII

EPILOGUE

The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells [1898]

BOOK ONE

THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS

CHAPTER ONE

THE EVE OF THE WAR

CHAPTER TWO

THE FALLING STAR

CHAPTER THREE

ON HORSELL COMMON

CHAPTER FOUR

THE CYLINDER OPENS

CHAPTER FIVE

THE HEAT-RAY

CHAPTER SIX

THE HEAT-RAY IN THE CHOBHAM ROAD

CHAPTER SEVEN

HOW I REACHED HOME

CHAPTER EIGHT

FRIDAY NIGHT

CHAPTER NINE

THE FIGHTING BEGINS

CHAPTER TEN

IN THE STORM

CHAPTER ELEVEN

AT THE WINDOW

CHAPTER TWELVE

WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

HOW I FELL IN WITH THE CURATE

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

IN LONDON

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

WHAT HAD HAPPENED IN SURREY

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

THE EXODUS FROM LONDON

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

THE "THUNDER CHILD"

BOOK TWO

THE EARTH UNDER THE MARTIANS

CHAPTER ONE

UNDER FOOT

CHAPTER TWO

WHAT WE SAW FROM THE RUINED HOUSE

CHAPTER THREE

THE DAYS OF IMPRISONMENT

CHAPTER FOUR

THE DEATH OF THE CURATE

CHAPTER FIVE

THE STILLNESS

CHAPTER SIX

THE WORK OF FIFTEEN DAYS

CHAPTER SEVEN

THE MAN ON PUTNEY HILL

CHAPTER EIGHT

DEAD LONDON

CHAPTER NINE

WRECKAGE

CHAPTER TEN

THE EPILOGUE

What is Coming?

A Forecast of Things after the War

By H.G. WELLS

1916

CONTENTS

I. FORECASTING THE FUTURE

II. THE END OF THE WAR[1]

III. NATIONS IN LIQUIDATION

IV. BRAINTREE, BOCKING, AND THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD

V. HOW FAR WILL EUROPE GO TOWARD SOCIALISM?

VI. LAWYER AND PRESS

VII. THE NEW EDUCATION

VIII. WHAT THE WAR IS DOING FOR WOMEN

Section 1

IX. THE NEW MAP OF EUROPE

Section 1

Section 2

X. THE UNITED STATES, FRANCE, BRITAIN, AND RUSSIA

Section 1

Section 2

XI. "THE WHITE MAN'S BURTHEN"

XII. THE OUTLOOK FOR THE GERMANS

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

THE WHEELS OF CHANCE; A BICYCLING IDYLL

By H.G. Wells

1896

I. THE PRINCIPAL CHARACTER IN THE STORY

II

III

IV. THE RIDING FORTH OF MR. HOOPDRIVER

V. THE SHAMEFUL EPISODE OF THE YOUNG LADY IN GREY

VI. ON THE ROAD TO RIPLEY

VII.

VIII.

IX. HOW MR. HOOPDRIVER WAS HAUNTED

X. THE IMAGININGS OF MR. HOOPDRIVER'S HEART

XI. OMISSIONS

XII. THE DREAMS OF MR. HOOPDRIVER

XIII. HOW MR. HOOPDRIVER WENT TO HASLEMERE

XIV. HOW MR. HOOPDRIVER REACHED MIDHURST

XV. AN INTERLUDE

XVI. OF THE ARTIFICIAL IN MAN, AND OF THE ZEITGEIST

XVII. THE ENCOUNTER AT MIDHURST

XVIII.

XIX.

XX. THE PURSUIT

XXI. AT BOGNOR

XXII.

XXIII.

XXIV. THE MOONLIGHT RIDE

XXV.

XXVI. THE SURBITON INTERLUDE

XXVII. THE AWAKENING OF MR. HOOPDRIVER

XXVIII. THE DEPARTURE FROM CHICHESTER

XXIX. THE UNEXPECTED ANECDOTE OF THE LION

XXX. THE RESCUE EXPEDITION

XXXI.

XXXII. MR. HOOPDRIVER, KNIGHT ERRANT

XXXIII. THE ABASEMENT OF MR. HOOPDRIVER

XXXIV.

XXXV.

XXXVI.

XXXVII. IN THE NEW FOREST

XXXVIII. AT THE RUFUS STONE

XXXIX.

XL.

XLI. THE ENVOY

WHEN THE SLEEPER WAKES

By H. G. Wells

CHAPTER I. INSOMNIA

CHAPTER II. THE TRANCE

CHAPTER III. THE AWAKENING

But Warming was wrong in that. An awakening came.

CHAPTER IV. THE SOUND OF A TUMULT

CHAPTER V. THE MOVING WAYS

CHAPTER VI. THE HALL OF THE ATLAS

CHAPTER VII. IN THE SILENT ROOMS

CHAPTER VIII. THE ROOF SPACES

CHAPTER IX. THE PEOPLE MARCH

CHAPTER X. THE BATTLE OF THE DARKNESS

CHAPTER XI. THE OLD MAN WHO KNEW EVERYTHING

He was startled by a cough close at hand.

CHAPTER XII. OSTROG

CHAPTER XIII. THE END OF THE OLD ORDER

CHAPTER XIV. FROM THE CROW'S NEST

CHAPTER XV. PROMINENT PEOPLE

CHAPTER XVI. THE AEROPHILE

CHAPTER XVII. THREE DAYS

CHAPTER XVIII. GRAHAM REMEMBERS

CHAPTER XIX. OSTROG'S POINT OF VIEW

CHAPTER XX. IN THE CITY WAYS

CHAPTER XXI. THE UNDER SIDE

CHAPTER XXII. THE STRUGGLE IN THE COUNCIL HOUSE

CHAPTER XXIII. WHILE THE AEROPLANES WERE COMING

CHAPTER XXIV. THE COMING OF THE AEROPLANES

THE WIFE OF SIR ISAAC HARMAN

CONTENTS

THE WIFE OF SIR ISAAC HARMAN

CHAPTER THE FIRST

§1

§2

§3

§4

CHAPTER THE SECOND

§1

§2

§3

§4

§5

§6

CHAPTER THE THIRD

§1

§2

§3

§4

§5

§6

§7

CHAPTER THE FOURTH

§1

§2

§3

§4

CHAPTER THE FIFTH

§1

§2

§3

§4

§5

§6

§7

§8

§9

CHAPTER THE SIXTH

§1

§2

§3

§4

§5

§6

§7

§8

§9

§10

§11

§12

§13

CHAPTER THE SEVENTH

§1

§2

§3

§4

§5

§6

§7

§8

CHAPTER THE EIGHTH

§1

§2

§3

§4

§5

§6

§7

§8

§9

§10

§11

CHAPTER THE NINTH

§1

§2

§3

§4

§5

§6

§7

§8

§9

§10

CHAPTER THE TENTH

§1

§2

§3

§4

§5

§6

§7

§8

§9

§10

§11

§12

§13

CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH

§1

§2

§3

§4

§5

§6

§7

§8

§9

§10

§11

§12

§13

CHAPTER THE TWELFTH

§1

§2

§3

§4

§5

§6

§7

§8

The Wonderful Visit

The Wonderful Visit byH. G. Wells

The Night of the Strange Bird.I.

The Coming of the Strange Bird.II.

The Hunting of the Strange Bird.III.

IV.

V.

The Vicar and the Angel.VI.

VII.

VIII.

Parenthesis on Angels.IX.

At the Vicarage.X.

XI.

XII.

The Man of Science.XIII.

XIV.

The Curate.XV.

XVI.

XVII.

After Dinner.XVIII.

XIX.

XX.

XXI.

Morning.XXII.

The Violin.XXIII.

The Angel Explores the Village.XXIV.

XXV.

XXVI.

XXVII.

Lady Hammergallow's View.XXVIII.

Further Adventures of the Angel in the Village.XXIX.

XXX.

Mrs Jehoram's Breadth of View.XXXI.

A Trivial Incident.XXXII.

The Warp and the Woof of Things.XXXIII.

The Angel's Debut.XXXIV.

XXXV.

XXXVI.

XXXVII.

The Trouble of the Barbed Wire.XXXVIII.

XXXIX.

Delia.XL.

Doctor Crump Acts.XLI.

Sir John Gotch Acts.XLII.

The Sea Cliff.XLIII.

Mrs Hinijer Acts.XLIV.

The Angel in Trouble.XLV.

XLVI.

The Last Day of the Visit.XLVII.

XLVIII.

XLIX.

L.

LI.

LII.

The Epilogue.

The Time Machine

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

XII

EPILOGUE

Tales of Space and Time

Tales of Space and Time

Contents

THE CRYSTAL EGG

THE STAR

A STORY OF THE STONE AGE

I—UGH-LOMI AND UYA

II—THE CAVE BEAR

III—THE FIRST HORSEMAN

IV—UYA THE LION

V—THE FIGHT IN THE LION'S THICKET

A STORY OF THE DAYS TO COME

I—THE CURE FOR LOVE

II—THE VACANT COUNTRY

III—THE WAYS OF THE CITY

IV—UNDERNEATH

V—BINDON INTERVENES

THE MAN WHO COULD WORK MIRACLESA PANTOUM IN PROSE

THE SOUL OF A BISHOP

Contents

THE SOUL OF A BISHOP

CHAPTER THE FIRST - THE DREAM

(1)

CHAPTER THE SECOND - THE WEAR AND TEAR OF EPISCOPACY

(1)

CHAPTER THE THIRD - INSOMNIA

(1)

CHAPTER THE FOURTH - THE SYMPATHY OF LADY SUNDERBUND

(1)

CHAPTER THE FIFTH - THE FIRST VISION

(1)

CHAPTER THE SIXTH - EXEGETICAL

(1)

CHAPTER THE SEVENTH - THE SECOND VISION

(1)

CHAPTER THE EIGHTH - THE NEW WORLD

(1)

CHAPTER THE NINTH - THE THIRD VISION

(1)

THE STOLEN BACILLUS AND OTHER INCIDENTS

BY H.G. WELLS

AUTHOR OF "THE TIME MACHINE"

TO

H.B. MARRIOTT WATSON

H.G. WELLS.

CONTENTS

I. THE STOLEN BACILLUS

II. THE FLOWERING OF THE STRANGE ORCHID

III. IN THE AVU OBSERVATORY

IV. THE TRIUMPHS OF A TAXIDERMIST

V. A DEAL IN OSTRICHES

VI. THROUGH A WINDOW

VII. THE TEMPTATION OF HARRINGAY

VIII. THE FLYING MAN

IX. THE DIAMOND MAKER

X. AEPYORNIS ISLAND

XI. THE REMARKABLE CASE OF DAVIDSON'S EYES

XII. THE LORD OF THE DYNAMOS

XIII. THE HAMMERPOND PARK BURGLARY

XIV. A MOTH—GENUS NOVO

XV. THE TREASURE IN THE FOREST

THE STOLEN BACILLUS

THE FLOWERING OF THE STRANGE ORCHID

IN THE AVU OBSERVATORY

THE TRIUMPHS OF A TAXIDERMIST

A DEAL IN OSTRICHES

THROUGH A WINDOW

THE TEMPTATION OF HARRINGAY

THE FLYING MAN

THE DIAMOND MAKER

AEPYORNIS ISLAND

THE REMARKABLE CASE OF DAVIDSON'S EYES

II.

III.

IV.

V.

THE LORD OF THE DYNAMOS

THE HAMMERPOND PARK BURGLARY

A MOTH—GENUS NOVO

THE TREASURE IN THE FOREST

THE SLEEPER AWAKES

PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION

H.G. WELLS.

CONTENTS

I. INSOMNIA

II. THE TRANCE

III. THE AWAKENING

IV. THE SOUND OF A TUMULT

V. THE MOVING WAYS

VI. THE HALL OF THE ATLAS

VII. IN THE SILENT ROOMS

VIII. THE ROOF SPACES

IX. THE PEOPLE MARCH

X. THE BATTLE OF THE DARKNESS

XI. THE OLD MAN WHO KNEW EVERYTHING

XII. OSTROG

XIII. THE END OF THE OLD ORDER

XIV. FROM THE CROW'S NEST

XV. PROMINENT PEOPLE

XVI. THE MONOPLANE

XVII. THREE DAYS

XVIII. GRAHAM REMEMBERS

XIX. OSTROG'S POINT OF VIEW

XX. IN THE CITY WAYS

XXI. THE UNDER-SIDE

XXII. THE STRUGGLE IN THE COUNCIL HOUSE

XXIII. GRAHAM SPEAKS HIS WORD

XXIV. WHILE THE AEROPLANES WERE COMING

XXV. THE COMING OF THE AEROPLANES

THE SLEEPER AWAKES

CHAPTER I

INSOMNIA

CHAPTER II

THE TRANCE

CHAPTER III

THE AWAKENING

CHAPTER IV

THE SOUND OF A TUMULT

CHAPTER V

THE MOVING WAYS

CHAPTER VI

THE HALL OF THE ATLAS

CHAPTER VII

IN THE SILENT ROOMS

CHAPTER VIII

THE ROOF SPACES

CHAPTER IX

THE PEOPLE MARCH

CHAPTER X

THE BATTLE OF THE DARKNESS

CHAPTER XI

THE OLD MAN WHO KNEW EVERYTHING

CHAPTER XII

OSTROG

CHAPTER XIII

THE END OF THE OLD ORDER

CHAPTER XIV

FROM THE CROW'S NEST

CHAPTER XV

PROMINENT PEOPLE

CHAPTER XVI

THE MONOPLANE

CHAPTER XVII

THREE DAYS

CHAPTER XVIII

GRAHAM REMEMBERS

CHAPTER XIX

OSTROG'S POINT OF VIEW

CHAPTER XX

IN THE CITY WAYS

CHAPTER XXI

THE UNDER-SIDE

CHAPTER XXII

THE STRUGGLE IN THE COUNCIL HOUSE

CHAPTER XXIII

GRAHAM SPEAKS HIS WORD

CHAPTER XXIV

WHILE THE AEROPLANES WERE COMING

CHAPTER XXV

THE COMING OF THE AEROPLANES

SELECT

CONVERSATIONS

WITH AN UNCLE

(now extinct)

and two other reminiscences by

H. G. WELLS

LONDON: JOHN LANE NEW YORK THE MERRIAM COMPANY 1895

Copyrighted in the United States. All rights reserved. Second Edition

TO MY DEAREST AND BEST FRIEND R. A. C.

PREFATORY

CONTENTS

SELECT CONVERSATIONS—

OF CONVERSATION AND THE ANATOMY OF FASHION THE THEORY OF THE PERPETUAL DISCOMFORT OF HUMANITY THE USE OF IDEALS THE ART OF BEING PHOTOGRAPHED BAGSHOT'S MURAL DECORATIONS ON SOCIAL MUSIC THE JOYS OF BEING ENGAGED LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI ON A TRICYCLE AN UNSUSPECTED MASTERPIECE THE GREAT CHANGE THE PAINS OF MARRIAGE

A MISUNDERSTOOD ARTIST THE MAN WITH A NOSE

OF CONVERSATION AND THE ANATOMY OF FASHION

THE THEORY OF THE PERPETUAL DISCOMFORT OF HUMANITY

THE USE OF IDEALS

THE ART OF BEING PHOTOGRAPHED

BAGSHOT'S MURAL DECORATIONS

ON SOCIAL MUSIC

THE JOYS OF BEING ENGAGED

LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI

A RHAPSODY

ON A TRICYCLE

AN UNSUSPECTED MASTERPIECE

(AUTHORESS UNKNOWN)

THE GREAT CHANGE

THE PAINS OF MARRIAGE

A MISUNDERSTOOD ARTIST

THE MAN WITH A NOSE

A SHORT

HISTORY OF THE WORLD

BY

H. G. WELLS

New York THE MACMILLAN & COMPANY 1922

Copyright 1922

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WORLD

I

THE WORLD IN SPACE

“LUMINOUS SPIRAL CLOUDS OF MATTER” (Nebula photographed 1910) Photo: G. W. Ritchey

THE NEBULA SEEN EDGE-ON Note the central core which, through millions of years, is cooling to solidity Photo: G. W. Ritchey

II

THE WORLD IN TIME

THE GREAT SPIRAL NEBULA Photo: G. W. Ritchey

A DARK NEBULA

Taken in 1920 with the aid of the largest telescope in the world. One of the first photographs taken by the Mount Wilson telescope. There are dark nebulæ and bright nebulæ. Prof. Henry Norris Russell, against the British theory, holds that the dark nebulæ preceded the bright nebulæ. Photo: Prof. Hale