The Best of H. G. Wells

The Best of H. G. Wells includes some of the greatest, most memorable, and most influential stories written by the incomparable H. G. Wells.


Included in this massive anthology of classic fiction are the following works:


Novels:


The First Men in the Moon (1901) 

The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth (1904) 

The Invisible Man (1897) 

The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) 

Kipps (1905)

Love and Mr. Lewisham (1899) 2nd ed.

The Sea Lady (1902)

The Soul of a Bishop (1917)

The Time Machine (1895) (British edition: Heinemann text)

The Time Machine (1895) (American edition: Holt text)

The War in the Air (1908)

The War of the Worlds (1898) 

The Wheels of Chance (1896) 

The Wonderful Visit (1895)

The World Set Free (1914)


Short stories:


The Apple (1896)

Æpyornis Island (1894)

The Argonauts of the Air (1895)

The Beautiful Suit (Also called A Moonlight Fable) (1909)

A Catastrophe (1895)

The Cone (1895)

The Country of the Blind (1911) 

The Crystal Egg (1897)

A Deal in Ostriches (1894)

The Diamond Maker (1894)

The Door in the Wall (1906)

A Dream of Armageddon (1901)

The Empire of the Ants (1905)

Filmer (1901)

The Flowering of the Strange Orchid (1894)

The Flying Man (1893)

The Hammerpond Park Burglary (1894)

In the Abyss (1897)

In the Avu Observatory (1894) 

In the Days of the Comet (pre-1907)

The Jilting of Jane (1894)

Jimmy Goggles the God (1898)

The Lord of the Dynamos (1894)

The Lost Inheritance (1897)

The Magic Shop (1903)

The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1898) 

Miss Winchelsea's Heart (1898)

In the Modern Vein - An Unsympathetic Love Story (1894)

A Moth—Genus Novo (1895)

Mr. Brisher's Treasure (1899)

Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation (1898)

Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland (1901)

The New Accelerator (1901)

The Plattner Story (1896)

Pollock and the Porroh Man (1895)

The Purple Pileus (1896)

The Red Room (1896) 

The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes (1895)

The Sad Story of a Dramatic Critic (Also called The Obliterated Man) (1895)

The Sea Raiders (1896)

A Slip Under the Microscope (1896)

The Star (1897)

The Stolen Bacillus (1895)

The Stolen Body (1927)

A Story of the Days to Come (1899)

The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost (1902)

The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham (1896)

The Temptation of Harringay (1895)

The Treasure in the Forest (1894)

The Triumphs of a Taxidermist (1894)

The Truth About Pyecraft (1903)

Through a Window (1894)

Under the Knife (1896) 

The Valley of Spiders (1909)

A Vision of Judgment (1927) 


About H. G. Wells:


Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, creative fiction, history, biography, satire, and autobiographies. Although influential in many genres, he is 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.


During his own lifetime, he was most notably a forward-looking, prophetic social critic who devoted his vast literary talents to the development of a progressive vision on a global scale. As a futurist, he wrote a number of utopian works and foresaw the advent of space travel, aircraft, satellite television, tanks, nuclear weapons, and something resembling the World Wide Web. His science fiction imagined time travel, invisibility, alien invasion, and biological engineering.


Brian Aldiss referred to Wells as the "Shakespeare of science fiction". Wells rendered his works convincing by instilling commonplace detail alongside a single extraordinary assumptions – dubbed “Wells’s law” – leading Joseph Conrad to hail him in 1898 as "O Realist of the Fantastic!". Wells’ most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, and the military science fiction The War in the Air. Wells was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.