Wells graduated from the Normal School of Science in London and taught school until 1893 when he began to write. At first this was restricted to short stories and essays, but his first novel, The Time Machine (1895) was a fantastic success. He followed this with The Wonderful Visit (1897), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898), When the Sleeper Wakes (1899), Love and Mr. Lewisham (1900), The First Men in the Moon (1901), The Food of the Gods (1904), A Modern Utopia (1905), Kipps (1905), The War in the Air (1908), Tono-Bungay (1909), Ann Veronica (1909), The History of Mr. Polly (1910), The New Machiavelli (1911), Bealby (1915), The World of William Clissold (1926), The Open Conspiracy (1928) and The Shape of Things to Come (1933). He also wrote numerous short stories including Twelve Stories and a Dream (1911) and The Country of the Blind (1911). Our selection includes his complete short stories. In 1920, he published his Outline of History and followed in 1922 with A Short History of the World, later brought up-to-date in 1933. His writing output slowed in his later years, but he did publish the excellent Experiment in Autobiography in 1934. |
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