Does anyone read H.G. Wells anymore? The question has been asked periodically since his death in 1946, and the answer is invariably a qualified yes. Of Wells’s more than 100 books, his best known ...

Introduction: The text ; The Sphinx-question ; The two socialisms ; Eloi and Morlocks ; The two cultures -- "The time machine, an invention" (1895) (annotated text of the first London edition) -- ...