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font-style:italic; padding-bottom:0.2em;">Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul <span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Kipps%3A+The+Story+of+a+Simple+Soul&rft.author=%5B%5BH.+G.+Wells%5D%5D&rft.date=1905&rft.pub=%5B%5BMacmillan+Publishers%7CMacmillan%5D%5D&rft.place=United+Kingdom&rft.pages=380"></span></caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Kipps.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a9/Kipps.jpg/220px-Kipps.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="325" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a9/Kipps.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="237" data-file-height="350" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">First edition</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Author</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/H._G._Wells" title="H. G. Wells">H. G. Wells</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/Social_novel" title="Social novel">Social novel</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publisher</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Macmillan_Publishers" title="Macmillan Publishers">Macmillan</a></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">1905</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publication place</th><td class="infobox-data">United Kingdom</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Pages</th><td class="infobox-data">380</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Text</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Kipps" class="extiw" title="s:Kipps">Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul</a></i> at <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul</b></i> is a novel by <a href="/wiki/H._G._Wells" title="H. G. Wells">H. G. Wells</a>, first published in 1905. It was reportedly Wells's own favourite among his works,<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> and it has been adapted for stage, cinema and television productions, including the musical <i><a href="/wiki/Half_a_Sixpence" title="Half a Sixpence">Half a Sixpence</a></i>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot">Plot</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kipps&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Plot"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The eponymous character is Arthur "Artie" Kipps, an illegitimate orphan. In Book I, "The Making of Kipps", he is raised by his aged aunt and uncle, who keep a little shop in <a href="/wiki/New_Romney" title="New Romney">New Romney</a> on the southeastern coast of <a href="/wiki/Kent" title="Kent">Kent</a>. He attends the Cavendish Academy – "a middle-class school", not a "<a href="/wiki/School_boards_in_England_and_Wales" title="School boards in England and Wales">board school</a>"<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> – in <a href="/wiki/Hastings" title="Hastings">Hastings</a> in <a href="/wiki/East_Sussex" title="East Sussex">East Sussex</a>. "By inherent nature he had a sociable disposition",<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> and he befriends Sid Pornick, the son of a neighbour. Kipps also falls in love with Sid's younger sister, Ann. Ann gives him half a sixpence as a token of their love when, at 14, he is apprenticed to the <a href="/wiki/Folkestone" title="Folkestone">Folkestone</a> Drapery Bazaar, run by Mr Shalford. </p><p>The Pornicks move away and Kipps forgets Ann. He becomes infatuated with Helen Walshingham, who teaches a woodcarving class on Thursday nights. Chitterlow, an actor and aspiring playwright, meets Kipps by running into him with his bicycle, and they have a drunken evening together that leads to Kipps being "swapped" (dismissed) from his job. Chitterlow then brings to his attention a newspaper advertisement that leads to an unexpected inheritance for Kipps from his grandfather of a house and £26,000.<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> </p><p>In Book II, "Mr Coote the Chaperon", Kipps fails in his attempt to adapt to his new position in the social hierarchy of Folkestone. By chance he meets a Mr Coote, who undertakes his social education. That leads to renewed contact with Helen Walshingham, and they become engaged. However, the process of bettering himself alienates Kipps more and more, especially since Helen makes it clear that she wants to take advantage of Kipps' fortune to establish herself and her brother in London society. Chance meetings with Sid, who has become a socialist, and then with Ann, who is now a housemaid, lead Kipps to abandon social conventions and his engagement to Helen, and marry his childhood sweetheart. </p><p>In Book III, "Kippses", the attempt to find a house suitable to his new status precipitates Kipps back into a struggle with the "complex and difficult" English social system. Kipps and Ann quarrel. Then they learn that Helen's brother, a solicitor, has lost most of their fortune through speculation. That leads to a happier situation when Kipps opens a branch of the Associated Booksellers' Trading Union (Limited) in <a href="/wiki/Hythe,_Kent" title="Hythe, Kent">Hythe</a> and they have a son. The success of Chitterlow's play, in which Kipps has invested £2,000, restores their fortune, but they are content to remain shopkeepers in a small coastal town. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Themes">Themes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kipps&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Themes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Kipps</i> is a rags-to-riches study in class differences, and the novel's chief dramatic interest is in how the protagonist negotiates the intellectual, moral and emotional difficulties that come with wealth and a change of social status. Kipps is the only character in the novel who is fully developed and all events are narrated from his point of view. A narrator's voice offers occasional comments, but only towards the end of the novel does this voice speak out in a page-long denunciation of "the ruling power of this land, Stupidity," which is "a monster, a lumpish monster, like some great clumsy griffin thing, like the <a href="/wiki/Crystal_Palace_Dinosaurs" title="Crystal Palace Dinosaurs">Crystal Palace</a> <a href="/wiki/Labyrinthodon" class="mw-redirect" title="Labyrinthodon">labyrinthodon</a>, like Coote, like the leaden Goddess of the <a href="/wiki/The_Dunciad" title="The Dunciad">Dunciad</a>, like some fat, proud flunkey, like pride, like indolence, like all that is darkening and heavy and obstructive in life".<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>Kipps's friend Sid becomes a socialist and houses a boarder, Masterman, who argues that society "is hopelessly out of joint. Man is a social animal with a mind nowadays that goes around the globe, and a community cannot be happy in one part and unhappy in another.... Society is one body, and it is either well or ill. That's the law. This society we live in is ill."<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> However, while Kipps admires Masterman and is in part receptive to his point of view, he tells Ann that "I don't agree with this socialism."<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At one time Wells intended to develop Masterman into a major character who would convert Kipps to socialism, and he wrote several versions in which he played an important role at the end of the novel.<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 speech of Artie Kipps is a careful rendering of the pronunciation of the English language as Wells first learned it. Kipps never masters another way of speaking, and after much effort he reverts to the manner of his upbringing: "'Speckylated it!' said Kipps, with an illustrative flourish of the arm that failed to illustrate. 'Bort things dear and sold 'em cheap, and played the 'ankey-pankey jackass with everything we got. That's what I mean 'e's done, Ann.'"<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> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Writing_and_publication">Writing and publication</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kipps&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Writing and publication"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wells worked on <i>Kipps</i> for seven years, completing a draft entitled <i>The Wealth of Mr Waddy</i> in January 1899 and finishing the novel as it now exists in May 1904.<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> <i>Kipps</i> changed considerably over this period of extended drafting: the <a href="/wiki/Manuscript" title="Manuscript">manuscript</a>, now in the Wells Archive at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Illinois" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Illinois">University of Illinois</a>, consists of more than 6,000 sheets, and includes, in the words of Harris Wilson, "literally scores of false starts, digressions, and abandoned episodes."<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><p>In the finished novel Book 1 and Book 2 are of roughly comparable lengths, but Book 3 is much shorter. This disproportion reflects the fact that originally the third Book contained an extended episode in which the consumptive socialist Masterman visits Kipps in Hythe and dies slowly, lecturing about revolution as he goes and speculating about the possibilities of utopian communism. Critics have praised Wells for cutting this episode, whilst also seeing it as a sign of things to come in his writing career: "Wells, in this episode, slips into the discursive and didactic; his characters are almost forgotten as they expound his own social ideas and criticism ... [it is] Wells's first substantial attempt, and acknowledged failure, since he left it out, to reconcile narrative and ideology."<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>Wells was eager for the novel to succeed, and he harassed his publisher, Macmillan, with ideas for unorthodox publicity stunts, such as sending men with sandwich boards into the theatre district in the West End of London, or posters saying "Kipps Worked Here" outside Portsmouth & Southsea Railway Station.<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> <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=Kipps&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Though <i>Kipps</i> eventually became one of Wells's most successful novels, at first it was slow to sell. While 12,000 copies had been sold by the end of 1905, more than a quarter of a million had been sold by the 1920s.<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><p>The novel received high praise from <a href="/wiki/Henry_James" title="Henry James">Henry James</a>, but <a href="/wiki/Arnold_Bennett" title="Arnold Bennett">Arnold Bennett</a> complained that it showed "ferocious hostility to about five-sixths of the characters".<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> </p><p>Wells's biographer David C. Smith calls the novel "a masterpiece" and argued that with <i>Kipps</i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_History_of_Mr_Polly" title="The History of Mr Polly">The History of Mr Polly</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/Tono-Bungay" title="Tono-Bungay">Tono-Bungay</a></i>, Wells "is able to claim a permanent place in English fiction, close to <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Dickens</a>, because of the extraordinary humanity of some of the characters, but also because of his ability to invoke a <i>place</i>, a <i>class</i>, a <i>social scene</i>."<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<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=Kipps&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Adaptations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Kipps</i> has been adapted for other media several times. </p> <ul><li>In 1912 Wells and <a href="/wiki/Rudolf_Besier" title="Rudolf Besier">Rudolf Besier</a> adapted it for the stage.</li> <li>In 1921 there was a <a href="/wiki/Kipps_(1921_film)" title="Kipps (1921 film)">silent film version</a> set in <a href="/wiki/Folkestone" title="Folkestone">Folkestone</a>, and (for the final scene) shot on location in <a href="/wiki/Canterbury" title="Canterbury">Canterbury</a> and partly at the <a href="/wiki/Savoy_Hotel" title="Savoy Hotel">Savoy Hotel</a>. Wells was an extra in the film.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Kipps_(1941_film)" title="Kipps (1941 film)">1941 film adaptation</a> starred <a href="/wiki/Michael_Redgrave" title="Michael Redgrave">Michael Redgrave</a> in the title role.</li> <li>The eight-part television serial by <a href="/wiki/Granada_Television" class="mw-redirect" title="Granada Television">Granada Television</a>, with Brian Murray as Kipps, was shown on the <a href="/wiki/ITV_(TV_network)" title="ITV (TV network)">ITV</a> network between 14 October and 2 December 1960; it <a href="/wiki/Lost_television_broadcast#Wiping" title="Lost television broadcast">no longer exists</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The stage musical <i><a href="/wiki/Half_a_Sixpence" title="Half a Sixpence">Half a Sixpence</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/David_Heneker" title="David Heneker">David Heneker</a> and <a href="/wiki/Beverley_Cross" title="Beverley Cross">Beverley Cross</a>, based on <i>Kipps</i>, was originally mounted in the West End of London as a star vehicle for <a href="/wiki/Tommy_Steele" title="Tommy Steele">Tommy Steele</a> and transferred to Broadway with Steele in the 1965–1966 season. It was <a href="/wiki/Half_a_Sixpence_(film)" title="Half a Sixpence (film)">filmed in 1967</a>, again with Steele in the starring role.</li> <li>A 2016 revival of <i><a href="/wiki/Half_a_Sixpence_(2016_musical)" title="Half a Sixpence (2016 musical)">Half a Sixpence</a></i> (an adaptation which took inspiration from, and added to, both H. G. Wells's original novel and the 1963 musical, with the book written by <a href="/wiki/Julian_Fellowes" title="Julian Fellowes">Julian Fellowes</a> and additional music done by George Stiles & Anthony Drewe, with Drewe adding extra lyrics) premiered at the <a href="/wiki/Chichester_Festival_Theatre" title="Chichester Festival Theatre">Chichester Festival Theatre</a>, running from the 14th of July to the 2nd of September, as a co-production with <a href="/wiki/Cameron_Mackintosh" title="Cameron Mackintosh">Cameron Macintosh</a>. The show moved to the <a href="/wiki/West_End_theatre" title="West End theatre">West End</a> (retaining its original Chichester cast apart from the actor playing Uncle Bert) running at the <a href="/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Coward_Theatre" title="Noël Coward Theatre">Noel Coward Theatre</a> from 29 October 2016 to 2 September 2017. One of the performances was filmed and broadcast on <a href="/wiki/Sky_Arts" title="Sky Arts">Sky Arts</a> and <a href="/wiki/Now_(Sky)" class="mw-redirect" title="Now (Sky)">NowTV</a> on 21 December 2019, being retitled <i>Kipps</i> due to a change in licensing name.</li> <li>In 1984 <a href="/wiki/Michelene_Wandor" title="Michelene Wandor">Michelene Wandor</a> dramatised <i>Kipps</i> in five parts for <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_4" title="BBC Radio 4">BBC Radio 4</a>, starring <a href="/wiki/Paul_Daneman" title="Paul Daneman">Paul Daneman</a> as the narrator (referred to as "H. G. Wells"), <a href="/w/index.php?title=Mark_Straker&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mark Straker (page does not exist)">Mark Straker</a> as Kipps and <a href="/wiki/Nickolas_Grace" title="Nickolas Grace">Nickolas Grace</a> as Chitterlow.</li> <li>A second BBC Radio 4 adaptation, by <a href="/wiki/Mike_Walker_(radio_dramatist)" title="Mike Walker (radio dramatist)">Mike Walker</a>, this time in two parts, was broadcast in May 2006, starring <a href="/wiki/Bryan_Dick" title="Bryan Dick">Bryan Dick</a> as Kipps, <a href="/wiki/Donald_Sumpter" title="Donald Sumpter">Donald Sumpter</a> as Kipps's Uncle, and <a href="/wiki/Deborah_Findlay" title="Deborah Findlay">Deborah Findlay</a> as Kipps's Aunt.</li></ul> <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=Kipps&action=edit&section=6" 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 reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-2"> <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">back cover blurb, Fontana edition, 1961</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">H. G. Wells, <i>Kipps</i>, II, 1, §2.</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>Kipps</i>, I, 1, §1.</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>Kipps</i>, I, 6, §5.</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>Kipps</i>, III, 2, §5.</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>Kipps</i>, II, 7, §4.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">H. G. Wells, <i>Kipps</i>, II, 9, §3.</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 MacKenzie, <i>H. G. Wells: A Biography</i> (Simon & Schuster, 1973), pp. 193–94.</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">H. G. Wells, <i>Kipps</i>, III, 3, §1.</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">Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie, <i>H. G. Wells: A Biography</i> (Simon & Schuster, 1973), pp. 187, 192.</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">Harris Wilson, "The Death of Masterman: A Repressed Episode in H. G. Wells's Kipps", <i>PMLA</i> 86:1 (Jan., 1971), p. 63.</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">Wilson, p. 69.</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">Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie, <i>H. G. Wells: A Biography</i> (Simon & Schuster, 1973), p. 187.</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 Sherborne, <i>H. G. Wells: Another Kind of Life</i> (Peter Owen, 2010), p. 167.</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">Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie, <i>H. G. Wells: A Biography</i> (Simon & Schuster, 1973), p. 194.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">David C. Smith, <i>H. G. Wells: Desperately Mortal: A Biography</i> (Yale UP, 1986), pp. 202; 199–200.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Kaleidoscope British Independent Television Drama Research Guide 1955–2010</i>, page 2307 (Simon Coward, Richard Down & Christopher Perry; Kaleidoscope Publishing, 2nd edition, 2010, <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 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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 href="/wiki/The_Wonderful_Visit" title="The Wonderful Visit">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 class="mw-selflink selflink">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 Englishman Looks at the World</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Experiment_in_Autobiography" title="Experiment in Autobiography">Experiment in Autobiography</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Fate_of_Man" class="mw-redirect" title="The Fate of Man">The Fate of Man</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/First_and_Last_Things" title="First and Last Things">First and Last Things</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Floor_Games" title="Floor Games">Floor Games</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Future_in_America" title="The Future in America">The Future in America</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/God_the_Invisible_King" title="God the Invisible King">God the Invisible King</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/In_the_Fourth_Year" title="In the Fourth Year">In the Fourth Year</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Little_Wars" title="Little Wars">Little Wars</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mankind_in_the_Making" title="Mankind in the Making">Mankind in the Making</a></i></li> <li><i><a 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