Critical Response to H.G. Wells

WILLIAM J. SCHEICK is J.R. Millikan Centennial Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. He was formerly the editor of Texas Studies in Language and Literature and has served on a number of editorial boards. He has published some 15 books and more than 150 articles.

• Series Foreword by Cameron Northouse Introduction: H. G. Wells and the Literate Subconscious Experiment in Autobiography by H. G. Wells The Lounger by Anonymous The Early H. G. Wells by Bernard Bergonzi Literature by Anonymous The War of the Worlds by John St. Loe Strachey Mr. Sammler's War of the Planets by Allan Chavkin The Ideas of H. G. Wells by Anonymous History, Adventure, and School Stories by Anonymous The Natural History of H. G. Wells by John R. Reed Sociological Speculations by F. C. S. S. Mr. Well's Kipps by F. G. Bettany The Novels of Wells, Bennett and Galsworthy by William Bellamy Encounters with the "White Sphinx": The Re-Vision of Poe in Wells's Early Fiction by Catherine Rainwater Mr. Wells's New Novel by W. H. Chesson A Fictioneer of the Laboratory by H. L. Mencken The New Machiavelli by Arnold Bennett H. G. Wells and Mrs. Humphry Ward by John R. Reed The Novel of Ideas by Rebecca West Keeping the Game Going: The Re-Vision of Poe in Wells's Later Fiction by Catherine Rainwater Ellen Glasgow's Outline of History in The Shadowy Third and Other Stories by Catherine Rainwater Mr. Wells's New Novel by E. B. Osborn Mr. H. G. Wells's Pamphlet Novel by Richard Jennings H. G. Wells's and Henry James's Two Ladies by Janet Gabler-Hover Schopenhauer, Spengler, and Wells by William J. Scheick Afterword: The Contemporary Novel by H. G. Wells Supplementary Readings: 1956-1994 Index