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Very good. xiii, [3], 72, [4] pages. Minor cover wear at corners noted. This is No. 194 of the Burt Franklin Bibliography and Reference Series. The author/bibliographer wrote in the Preface "The following compilation is, I believe, the first complete bibliography of the books and pamphlets of H. G. Wells to be published. The present bibliography, within its limits, will be found, I think, to give, accurately and fully, all the information which the collector or student of the works of H. G. Wells will require. Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866-13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games. Wells is now 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, however, he was most prominent as a forward-looking, even prophetic social critic who devoted his literary talents to the development of a progressive vision on a global scale. A futurist, he wrote a number of utopian works and foresaw the advent of aircraft, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, satellite television and something resembling the World Wide Web. His science fiction imagined time travel, alien invasion, invisibility, and biological engineering. Brian Aldiss referred to Wells as the "Shakespeare of science fiction", while American writer Charles Fort referred to him as a "wild talent". Wells rendered his works convincing by instilling commonplace detail alongside a single extraordinary assumption-dubbed "Wells's law"-leading Joseph Conrad to hail him in 1898 as "O Realist of the Fantastic! ". His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895), which was his first novel, The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898) and the military science fiction The War in the Air (1907). Wells was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times. Wells's earliest specialized training was in biology, and his thinking on ethical matters took place in a specifically and fundamentally Darwinian context. He was also an outspoken Socialist from a young age, often (but not always, as at the beginning of the First World War) sympathizing with pacifist views. His later works became increasingly political and didactic, and he wrote little science fiction, while he sometimes indicated on official documents that his profession was that of journalist. Novels such as Kipps and The History of Mr. Polly, which describe lower-middle-class life, led to the suggestion that he was a worthy successor to Charles Dickens, but Wells described a range of social strata and even attempted, in Tono-Bungay (1909), a diagnosis of English society as a whole.
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Very Good. No Jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Hardcover 1968 reprint edition. Ex-library book with stamps and labels attached. Binding firm. Pages unmarked and clean. Fading to covers, otherwise text in very good condition. Burt Franklin Bibliography and Reference Series #194. [72 pages]
