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G. Wells">H. G. Wells</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Cover artist</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Anning_Bell" title="Robert Anning Bell">Robert Anning Bell</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Fantasy" title="Fantasy">Fantasy</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publisher</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/J._M._Dent" title="J. M. Dent">J. M. Dent</a> (UK)<br /><a href="/wiki/MacMillan_and_Co." class="mw-redirect" title="MacMillan and Co.">MacMillan and Co.</a> (US)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Publication date</div></th><td class="infobox-data">1895</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publication place</th><td class="infobox-data">United States/England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Media type</th><td class="infobox-data">Print</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Pages</th><td class="infobox-data">245</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Text</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Visit" class="extiw" title="s:The Wonderful Visit">The Wonderful Visit</a></i> at <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>The Wonderful Visit</b></i> is an 1895 novel by <a href="/wiki/H._G._Wells" title="H. G. Wells">H. G. Wells</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With an angel—a creature of <a href="/wiki/Fantasy" title="Fantasy">fantasy</a> unlike a religious angel—as protagonist and taking place in contemporary England, the book could be classified as <a href="/wiki/Contemporary_fantasy" title="Contemporary fantasy">contemporary fantasy</a>, although the genre was not recognised in Wells's time. <i>The Wonderful Visit</i> also has strong <a href="/wiki/Satire" title="Satire">satirical</a> themes, gently mocking customs and institutions of <a href="/wiki/Victorian_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Victorian England">Victorian England</a> as well as idealistic rebellion itself.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot_summary">Plot summary</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Wonderful_Visit&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Plot summary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>The Wonderful Visit</i> tells how an <a href="/wiki/Angel" title="Angel">angel</a> spends a little more than a week in southern England. He is at first mistaken for a bird because of his dazzling polychromatic plumage, for he is "neither the Angel of religious feeling nor the Angel of popular belief," but rather "the Angel of Italian art."<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a result, he is hunted and shot in the wing by an amateur ornithologist, the Rev. K. Hilyer, the vicar of Siddermoton, and then taken in and cared for at the vicarage. The creature comes from "the Land of Dreams" (also the angel's term for our world), and while "charmingly affable," is "quite ignorant of the most elementary facts of civilisation."<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During his brief visit he grows increasingly dismayed by what he learns about the world in general and about life in Victorian England in particular. As he grows increasingly critical of local mores, he is eventually denounced as "a Socialist."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The vicar, his host, meanwhile comes under attack by fellow clerics, neighbours, and even servants for harbouring a disreputable character (no one but the vicar believes he comes from another world, and people take to calling him "Mr. Angel"). The angel's one talent is his divine violin-playing, but he is discredited at a reception that Lady Hammergallow agrees to host when it is discovered that he cannot read music and confides to a sympathetic listener that he has taken an interest in the vicar's serving girl, Delia. Instead of healing, his wings begin to atrophy. The local physician, Dr. Crump, threatens to have him put in a prison or a madhouse. After the angel destroys some barbed wire on a local baronet's property, Sir John Gotch gives the vicar one week to send him away before he begins proceedings against him. </p><p>The Rev. Mr. Hilyer is regretfully planning how he will take the angel to London and try to establish him there when two catastrophes abort the plan. First, the angel, who "had been breathing the poisonous air of this Struggle for Existence of ours for more than a week," beats Sir John Gotch with Gotch's own whip in a fury after the local landowner insolently orders him off his land.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Distraught to think (mistakenly) that he has killed a man, he returns to the village to find the vicar's house in flames. Delia, the serving girl, has entered the burning building in an attempt to rescue the angel's violin: this extraordinary act comes as a revelation to the angel. "Then in a flash he saw it all, saw this grim little world of battle and cruelty, transfigured in a splendour that outshone the Angelic Land, suffused suddenly and insupportably glorious with the wonderful light of Love and Self-Sacrifice."<sup id="cite_ref-auto_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The angel attempts to rescue Delia, someone seems to see "two figures with wings" flash up and vanish among the flames, and a strange music that "began and ended like the opening and shutting of a door" suggests that the angel has gone back to where he came from, accompanied by Delia.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An epilogue reveals that "there is nothing beneath" the two white crosses in Siddermorton cemetery that bear the names of Thomas Angel and Delia Hardy, and that the vicar, who never recovered his aplomb after the angel's departure, died within a year of the fire. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Wonderful_Visit&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>The Wonderful Visit</i> was inspired by <a href="/wiki/John_Ruskin" title="John Ruskin">John Ruskin</a>'s remark that an angel appearing on earth in Victorian England would be shot on sight.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The novel's publication date of September 1895 means that it must have been read by the public as a commentary on the notorious <a href="/wiki/Trials_of_Oscar_Wilde" class="mw-redirect" title="Trials of Oscar Wilde">trial of Oscar Wilde</a>, whose prosecution had begun in February 1895 and who was imprisoned on 25 May 1895.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Wells dedicated the book to his friend Walter Low, who died of pneumonia in 1895. Low had helped Wells get a foothold in the world of journalism in 1891 when both were working at the University Correspondence College.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>The Wonderful Visit</i> was published in the same year (1895) as <i><a href="/wiki/Select_Conversations_with_an_Uncle" title="Select Conversations with an Uncle">Select Conversations with an Uncle</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Time_Machine" title="The Time Machine">The Time Machine</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Stolen_Bacillus_and_Other_Incidents" title="The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents">The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents</a></i>; at this time Wells's published output was about 7,000 words a day.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1907 <a href="/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw" title="George Bernard Shaw">George Bernard Shaw</a> discouraged Wells from thoughts he had long harboured of turning the book into a play; at least four attempts to dramatise the work—some of them realised, some not—seem to have been made, in 1896, 1900, 1921, and 1934.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Wonderful_Visit&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Reviews were favourable, with one contemporary reviewer calling <i>The Wonderful Visit</i> "a striking fantasia wrought with tact, charm and wit."<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Conrad" title="Joseph Conrad">Joseph Conrad</a>, whom Wells met when he reviewed his early work favourably, admired <i>The Wonderful Visit</i> and wrote to him to praise his "imagination so unbounded and so brilliant."<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For biographer Michael Sherbourne, <i>The Wonderful Visit</i> "presages the humour of <a href="/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut">Kurt Vonnegut</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Adaptations">Adaptations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Wonderful_Visit&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Adaptations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The novel was adapted to film by <a href="/wiki/Marcel_Carn%C3%A9" title="Marcel Carné">Marcel Carné</a> in 1974 as <i>La Merveilleuse visite</i>. An operatic adaptation, <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=La_visita_meravigliosa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="La visita meravigliosa (page does not exist)">La visita meravigliosa</a></i>, by <a href="/wiki/Nino_Rota" title="Nino Rota">Nino Rota</a>, premiered in 1970; an excerpt from the work was performed at <a href="/wiki/Federico_Fellini" title="Federico Fellini">Federico Fellini</a>'s funeral in 1993.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A 1988 adaptation for <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_4" title="BBC Radio 4">BBC Radio 4</a> by <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Gallagher" title="Stephen Gallagher">Stephen Gallagher</a> featured <a href="/wiki/Bernard_Cribbins" title="Bernard Cribbins">Bernard Cribbins</a> as The Vicar.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Wonderful_Visit&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.s4ulanguages.com/hgwells.html">"HGWells"</a>. <i>S4U Languages - Brazilian translation. Salvador and Sao Paulo. Ensino de idiomas and Brazilian Portuguese translations</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">23 March</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=S4U+Languages+-+Brazilian+translation.+Salvador+and+Sao+Paulo.+Ensino+de+idiomas+and+Brazilian+Portuguese+translations&rft.atitle=HGWells&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.s4ulanguages.com%2Fhgwells.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Wonderful+Visit" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSherbourne,_Michael2010" class="citation book cs1">Sherbourne, Michael (2010). <i>H.G. Wells: Another Kind of Life</i>. Peter Owen. p. 108.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=H.G.+Wells%3A+Another+Kind+of+Life&rft.pages=108&rft.pub=Peter+Owen&rft.date=2010&rft.au=Sherbourne%2C+Michael&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Wonderful+Visit" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">H.G. Wells, <i>The Wonderful Visit</i>, ch. 9.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">H.G. Wells, <i>The Wonderful Visit</i>, ch. 12.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">H.G. Wells, <i>The Wonderful Visit</i>, ch. 42.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">H.G. Wells, <i>The Wonderful Visit</i>, ch. 48.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-auto-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-auto_7-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-auto_7-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">H.G. Wells, <i>The Wonderful Visit</i>, ch. 50.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Norman and Jeanne McKenzie, <i>H.G. Wells: A Biography</i> (Simon and Schuster, 1973), p. 107; William Greensdale and Terence Rodgers, <i>Grant Allen: Literature and Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle</i> (Ashgate, 2005), p. 117.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Michael Sherbourne, <i>H.G. Wells: Another Kind of Life</i> (Peter Owen, 2010), pp. 76–77, 101.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Michael Sherborne, <i>H.G. Wells: Another Kind of Life</i> (Peter Owen, 2010), p. 118.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">David C. Johnson, <i>H.G. Wells: Desperately Mortal: A Biography</i> (<a href="/wiki/Yale_University_Press" title="Yale University Press">Yale University Press</a>, 1986), pp. 143, 540-51n.41; Michael Sherborne, <i>H.G. Wells: Another Kind of Life</i> (Peter Owen, 2010), p. 245.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">David C. Johnson, <i>H.G. Wells: Desperately Mortal: A Biography</i> (Yale University Press, 1986), p. 205.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">David C. Johnson, <i>H.G. Wells: Desperately Mortal: A Biography</i> (Yale University Press, 1986), p. 162.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Michael Sherbourne, <i>H.G. Wells: Another Kind of Life</i> (Peter Owen, 2010), p. 108.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ninorota.com/pages/fulldesc.php?title_id=89">"Nino Rota Music Catalogue"</a>. <i>www.ninorota.com</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Wells bibliography">Bibliography</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Novels</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Time_Machine" title="The Time Machine">The Time Machine</a></i> (1895)</li> <li><i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">The Wonderful Visit</a></i> (1895)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Island_of_Doctor_Moreau" title="The Island of Doctor Moreau">The Island of Doctor Moreau</a></i> (1896)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wheels_of_Chance" title="The Wheels of Chance">The Wheels of Chance</a></i> (1896)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Invisible_Man" title="The Invisible Man">The Invisible Man</a></i> (1897)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds" title="The War of the Worlds">The War of the Worlds</a></i> (1898)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Sleeper_Awakes" title="The Sleeper Awakes">When the Sleeper Wakes</a></i> (1899)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Love_and_Mr_Lewisham" title="Love and Mr Lewisham">Love and Mr Lewisham</a></i> (1900)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_First_Men_in_the_Moon" title="The First Men in the Moon">The First Men in the Moon</a></i> (1901)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Sea_Lady" title="The Sea Lady">The Sea Lady</a></i> (1902)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Food_of_the_Gods_and_How_It_Came_to_Earth" title="The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth">The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth</a></i> (1904)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kipps" title="Kipps">Kipps</a></i> (1905)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Modern_Utopia" title="A Modern Utopia">A Modern Utopia</a></i> (1905)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/In_the_Days_of_the_Comet" title="In the Days of the Comet">In the Days of the Comet</a></i> (1906)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_War_in_the_Air" title="The War in the Air">The War in the Air</a></i> (1908)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tono-Bungay" title="Tono-Bungay">Tono-Bungay</a></i> (1909)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ann_Veronica" title="Ann Veronica">Ann Veronica</a></i> (1909)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_History_of_Mr_Polly" title="The History of Mr Polly">The History of Mr Polly</a></i> (1910)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Sleeper_Awakes" title="The Sleeper Awakes">The Sleeper Awakes</a></i> (1910)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Machiavelli" title="The New Machiavelli">The New Machiavelli</a></i> (1911)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Marriage_(novel)" title="Marriage (novel)">Marriage</a></i> (1912)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Passionate_Friends:_A_Novel" title="The Passionate Friends: A Novel">The Passionate Friends</a></i> (1913)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wife_of_Sir_Isaac_Harman" title="The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman">The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman</a></i> (1914)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_World_Set_Free" title="The World Set Free">The World Set Free</a></i> (1914)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bealby" title="Bealby">Bealby</a></i> (1915)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Boon_(novel)" title="Boon (novel)">Boon</a></i> (1915)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Research_Magnificent" title="The Research Magnificent">The Research Magnificent</a></i> (1915)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mr._Britling_Sees_It_Through" title="Mr. Britling Sees It Through">Mr. Britling Sees It Through</a></i> (1916)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_Bishop" title="The Soul of a Bishop">The Soul of a Bishop</a></i> (1917)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Joan_and_Peter" title="Joan and Peter">Joan and Peter</a></i> (1918)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Undying_Fire_(Wells_novel)" title="The Undying Fire (Wells novel)">The Undying Fire</a></i> (1919)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Secret_Places_of_the_Heart" class="mw-redirect" title="The Secret Places of the Heart">The Secret Places of the Heart</a></i> (1922)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Men_Like_Gods" title="Men Like Gods">Men Like Gods</a></i> (1923)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Dream_(novel)" title="The Dream (novel)">The Dream</a></i> (1924)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Christina_Alberta%27s_Father" title="Christina Alberta's Father">Christina Alberta's Father</a></i> (1925)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_World_of_William_Clissold" title="The World of William Clissold">The World of William Clissold</a></i> (1926)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Meanwhile_(novel)" title="Meanwhile (novel)">Meanwhile</a></i> (1927)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mr._Blettsworthy_on_Rampole_Island" title="Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island">Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island</a></i> (1928)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Autocracy_of_Mr._Parham" title="The Autocracy of Mr. Parham">The Autocracy of Mr. Parham</a></i> (1930)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Bulpington_of_Blup" title="The Bulpington of Blup">The Bulpington of Blup</a></i> (1932)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Shape_of_Things_to_Come" title="The Shape of Things to Come">The Shape of Things to Come</a></i> (1933)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Croquet_Player" title="The Croquet Player">The Croquet Player</a></i> (1936)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Brynhild_(novel)" title="Brynhild (novel)">Brynhild</a></i> (1937)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Star_Begotten" title="Star Begotten">Star Begotten</a></i> (1937)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Camford_Visitation" class="mw-redirect" title="The Camford Visitation">The Camford Visitation</a></i> (1937)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Apropos_of_Dolores" class="mw-redirect" title="Apropos of Dolores">Apropos of Dolores</a></i> (1938)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Brothers_(novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Brothers (novel)">The Brothers</a></i> (1938)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Holy_Terror_(Wells_novel)" title="The Holy Terror (Wells novel)">The Holy Terror</a></i> (1939)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Babes_in_the_Darkling_Wood" class="mw-redirect" title="Babes in the Darkling Wood">Babes in the Darkling Wood</a></i> (1940)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/All_Aboard_for_Ararat" title="All Aboard for Ararat">All Aboard for Ararat</a></i> (1940)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/You_Can%27t_Be_Too_Careful" class="mw-redirect" title="You Can't Be Too Careful">You Can't Be Too Careful</a></i> (1941)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Nonfiction</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Anticipations" title="Anticipations">Anticipations</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Certain_Personal_Matters" title="Certain Personal Matters">Certain Personal Matters</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Crux_Ansata" title="Crux Ansata">Crux Ansata</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Discovery_of_the_Future" title="The Discovery of the Future">The Discovery of the Future</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/An_Englishman_Looks_at_the_World" title="An Englishman Looks at the World">An 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