The H.G. Wells Conservatory

While searching for H.G.'s book titles I came across several papers/pamphlets that he published as well. There are dozens of them and the few that I included are not intended to neglect the existence of the others - more will be included later. At times it was also not clear as to whether some works qualify as books in their own right, some may only be short stories or pamphlets. Also, a point should be made about the numerous collections of short stories published under many different titles - there are too many to list, but the principle early ones are included.

Perhaps the only equal of H.G.'s great literary skill was his enormous literary output, which was prodigious indeed. A very conservative estimate is that he wrote some 30,000 pages of printed text published in book form over his working lifetime. This means that Wells' average output was (at minimum) about one and one-half pages per day, seven days a week for 55 years. Put another way, If one had access to all Wells' books and decided to read all of them in one year, it would mean going through 82 pages every day. So, not only does the Wells enthusiast have the pleasure of always finding something new by H.G. to read, but there can always be a full lifetime of rewarding re-reading as well.

Geoff Doyle

-June 30th, 1999.