Section 19

EPILOGUE 217 He subsides into a pensive state, watches you furtvely, bustles nervously with glasses, and presently leaves the bar. _ He is a bachelor man—his tastes were ever bachelor, and there are no women folk in the house. Outwardly he buttons—it is expected of him—but in his more vital privacies, in the matter of braces, for example, he still turns to string. He conducts his house without enterprise, but with eminent decorum, His movements are slow, and he is a
great thinker. But he has a reputation for wisdom.
and for a respectable parsimony in the village, and
his knowledge of the roads of the South of England
would béat Cobbett.
- On Sunday mornings, every Sunday morning, all the year round, while he is closed to the outer world, and every night after ten, he goes into his bar parlour, bearing a glass of gin faintly tinged with water, and having placed this down, he locks the door and examines the blinds, and even looks under the table. And then, being satisfied of his solitude, he unlocks the cupboard, and a box in the cupboard, and a drawer in that box, and produces three volumes bound in brown leather, and places them solemnly in the middle of the table. The covers are weather-worn and tinged with an algal green—for
once they sojourned in a ditch, and some of the |
pages have been washed blank by dirty water, The landlord sits down in an arm-chair, fills a long clay pipe slowly—gloating over the books the while, Then he pulls one towards him and begins to study it, turning over the leaves backwards and forwards, .
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His brows are knit and his lips move painfully.
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: 1893
1895
In the Days of the Comet.
‘The War in the Air.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Text-Book of Biology (2 vole: Ne
Honours Phystography (with R. A. Ghat Select Conversations with an Uncle.
The Time Machine. The Wonderful Visit. - The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents.
The Island of Dr. Moreau,
The Wheels of Chance.
The Plattner Story and Others.
The Invisible Man.
Certain Personal Matters.
Thirty Strange Stories.
The War of the Worlds.
When the Sleeper Wakes.
Tales of Space and Time,
Love.and Mr. Lewisham.
The First Men in the Moon.
Anticipations.
The Sea Lady.
Mankind in the Making. Twelve Stories and a Dream. ; ; e The Food of the Gods. A Modern Utopia. Kipps.
The Future in America. New Worlds for Old.
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; 1908
1909 1910 IgIl
1912
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
IQIQ 1920
1921 1922
BIBLIOGRAPRY -
First and Last Things.
Tono Bungay.
Anne Veronica.
The Hitstory of Mr. Polly.
The New Machiavellt.
The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories. _
Floor Games.
The Great State (Essays by Wells and 12 others).
Marriage.
Little Wars.
The Passionate Friends.
An Englishman Looks at the World.
The World Set Free.
The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman.
Boon . .. Being a first selection from the liter remains of George Boon... with an ambiguous introduction by H. G. Wells.
Bealby.
The Research Magnificent.
What is Coming?
Mr. Britling Sees It Through.
War and the Future.
God the Invisible King.
The Soul of a Bishop.
In the Fourth Year.
Joan and Peier.
The Undying Fire.
The Outline of History (2 vols.).
Russia in the Shadows.
The Salvaging of Civilization.
Washingion and the Hope of Peace.
The Secret Places of the Heart.
A Short History of the World.
1925
8 927 1928 r929
1930 1931
1932 933 934 935
BIBLIOGRAPHY Q2I
Men Like Gods. The Story of a Great Schoolmaster. The Dream. A Year of Prophesying. Atlantic Edition of the Works of H. G. Wells. (28 vols.). A Forecast of the World’s Affairs. Christina Alberta’s Father. The World of William Clissold (3 seh Meanwhile. The Short Stories of H. G. Weils (Bena. "Gon: tains a few not previously published). The Way the World 1s going. The Open Conspiracy. Mr. Blessworthy on Rampole Island. The King Who Was a King. The Adventures of Tommy. The Autocracy of Mr. Parham. What are We to Do With Our Lives (Revised Edition of The Open Conspiracy). The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind. The Shape of Things to Come. Experiment in Autobiography. Science of Life Series with, G. P. Wells and Julian Huxley. | _ Biology of the Human Race. ' Drama of Life. Evolution: Fact and Theory. History and Advent of Life. How Animals Behave, Living Body. Man’s Mind and Behaviour. Patterns of Life. Reproduction, Heredity and Development of Sex.
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1935 1936
1937 1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1944 1945
_ The Happy Turning.
‘BIBLIOGRAPHY
The New America: the New World. es
The Anatomy of Frustration: a Modem Synthesis. : ;
The Man who could Work Miracles (Film Story).
Science of Life.
World Brain (Lectures).
A Propos of Dolores.
The Brothers.
The Fate of Homo Sapiens.
Brynhild.
Holy Terror.
The New World Order.
All Aboard for Ararat.
Babes in the Darkling Wood.
Film Stories.
Star Begotten.
Common Sense of War and Peace (Penguin Special).
Guide to the New World,
A Handbook of Constructive World Revolution.
You Can’t Be Too Careful.
The Conquest of Time (Written to ‘rena First and Last Things)...
The Outlook of Homo Sapiens (Amalgamadaa modernization of The Fate of Homo Sapiens, and The New World Order).
Phoenix. A Summary of the inescapable com- ditions of World Reorganisation.
Science and the World Mind.
A Contemporary Memoir (1942-44).
Mind at the End of tts Tether.
Booxs asour H. Wes Woe: a ! The World of H. G. Wells by Van Wyck Brooks. Supers and Supermen by Philip Guedalla. ; H. G. Wells : Educationist by F. H. Doughty _ HG. Wells : a sketch for a portrait by Geoffrey West. — H. G. Wells: Prophet of Our Day by Antonina ; Vallentin (1950). HM. G. Wells: a biography by ‘Vincent Brome 1951 H, G. Wells : by Norman Nicholson (1951) _H. G. Wells and His Family by M. M. pe aa (1956). Henry James and H. G. Wells by Leon Edel and , Gordon N. Ray (1958). Be ee
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