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1. H. G. Wells – Teacher to the World 11. H. G. Wells. Die Zeitmaschine. (Illustrierte 21. H. G. Wells. Picshua [sketch] ‘Omaggio to 1. H. G. Wells (1866-1946). Text-book of Klassiker, no. 46) [Aachen: Bildschriftenverlag, P.C.B.’ [1900] Biology. London: W.B. Clive & Co.; University 196-]. Wells Picshua Box 1 H. G. Wells Correspondence College Press, [1893]. Wells Q. 823 W46ti:G Wells 570 W46t, vol. 1, cop. 1 Time Traveler 12. H. G. Wells. La machine à explorer le temps. 7. Fantasias of Possibility 2. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History, Being a Translated by Henry-D. Davray, illustrated by 22. H. G. Wells. The World Set Free [holograph Plain History of Life and Mankind. London: G. Max Camis. Paris: R. Kieffer, [1927]. manuscript, ca. 1913]. Simon J. James is Head of the Newnes, [1919-20]. Wells 823 W46tiFd Wells WE-001, folio W-3 Wells Q. 909 W46o 1919 vol. 2, part. 24, cop. 2 Department of English Studies, 13. H. G. Wells. Stroz času : Neviditelný. 23. H. G. Wells to Frederick Wells, ‘Oct. 27th 45’ Durham University, UK. He has 3. H. G. Wells. ‘The Idea of a World Translated by Pavla Moudrá. Prague: J. Otty, [Holograph letter]. edited Wells texts for Penguin and Encyclopedia.’ Nature, 138, no. 3500 (28 1905. Post-1650 MS 0667, folder 75 November 1936) : 917-24. Wells 823 W46tiCzm. World’s Classics and The Wellsian, the Q. 505N 24. H. G. Wells’ Things to Come. Produced by scholarly journal of the H. G. Wells Alexander Korda, directed by William Cameron Society. He is the author of Maps of 4. H. G. Wells. Picshua [sketch] ‘The Shop of 4. Fantastic Transport Menzies. United Artists, 1936. Utopia: H. G. Wells, Modernity and the All this world is heavy with the promise of greater Authorship.’ [November 1895]. 14. H. G. Wells. ‘The Land Ironclads.’ The Strand Wells 09 T-01 and T-16 Wells Picshua Box 1 Magazine, 26, no. 156 (December 1903): 751-64. End of Culture (OUP 2012). things, and a day will come, one day in the unending 052 STR 25. H. G. Wells. Picshua [sketch] ‘The Future.’ 1908. 21 September−21 December 2016 succession of days, when beings, beings who are now 2. The Time Machine 15. H. G. Wells. ‘The First Men in the Moon.’ The Wells Picshua Box 1, 6 22b 5. H. G. Wells. The Time Machine: An Invention. Strand Magazine, 20, no. 120 (December 1900): Caroline Szylowicz is the Kolb- London: William Heinemann, 1895. 697-705. latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand 052 STR H. G. Wells Proust Librarian and Curator of Wells 823 W46ti 1895 cop. 5 Time Traveler 8. Human Rights and World Peace upon this earth as one stands upon a footstool, and shall 26. H. G. Wells. The Rights of Man; or, What Are Rare Books and Manuscripts at the 6. H. G. Wells. The Time Machine: An Invention. 16. H. G. Wells. The War in the Air, and We Fighting For? [typescript, ca. 1940]. University of Illinois Library. New York: H. Holt and Company, 1895. Particularly How Mr. Bert Smallways Fared Wells RI-001, folio 629 laugh and reach out their hands amid the stars. WELLS 823 W46 ti cop. 2 While It Lasted. Illustrated by A. C. Michael. Special thanks to Adam Doskey, London: George Bell and Sons, 1908. 27. H. G. Wells. The Rights of Man; or, What Valerie Hotchkiss, Travis McDade, 7. H. G. Wells. The Time Machine: An Invention; WELLS 823 W46w cop. 4 and cop. 5 Are We Fighting For? Harmondsworth: Penguin With a Preface by the Author Written for this Books, 1940. Eva Miller, Dennis Sears, and Joe Edition; and Designs by W.A. Dwiggins. New Wells 940.93 W46r Lenkart; to Conservators Quinn York: Random House, 1931. 5. Future Technologies Ferris and Cher Schneider; and to Wells 823 W46ti 1931 17. H. G. Wells. The Conquest of Time. London: 28. H. G. Wells. Mind at the End of its Tether. Watts & Co., 1942. London: William Heinemann, 1945. Miyuki Meyer and Angela Waarala Wells 104 W46c Wells 824 W46m 1945 in the Library’s Digital Content 3. The Time Machine in the World Creation Unit. 8. H. G. Wells. The Time Machine. New York: 18. H. G. Wells. ‘When the Sleeper Wakes.’ 29. Your Human Rights:The Universal (H. G. Wells, The Discovery of the Future: A Discourse Delivered to the Illustrated by Henri Lanos. The Graphic, no. 1529 Declaration of Human Rights Proclaimed by the Berkley, [1963?]. Design by Nivens Design. Royal Institution on January 24, 1902) Wells 823 W46ti 1963 (18 March 1899): 329-31. United Nations. December 10, 1948. Introduction 072 GR by Eleanor Roosevelt. New York: Ellner 9. H. G. Wells. The Time Machine and The Man Publishers, 1950. © 2016, The Board of Trustees of the Who Could Work Miracles. London: Pan Books 323.4 Un36y University of Illinois Ltd., 1953. 6. The End of the World Wells 823 W46ti 1953 cop. 2 19. H. G. Wells. The War of the Worlds [holograph The Rare Book & Manuscript Library manuscript, ca. 1897]. Curated by 10. H. G. Wells. Mashina vremeni. Translated Wells WOW-001, folio 93a 346 Library, 1408 West Gregory Drive, by Ė. K. Pimenova, edited by Evgeniǐ Ivanovich Simon J. James and Caroline Szylowicz ︠ ︡ Urbana, IL 61801 Zamiatin. Saint Petersburg: “Vsemirnaia lit-ra” 20. H. G. Wells. The Time Machine [holograph pri Gos. Izd., 1920. manuscript, ca. 1894]. The Rare Book & Manuscript Library Wells 823 W46tiRz Wells TT-001, folio 231 www.library.illinois.edu/rbx University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/hgwells2016 Yet for all his success, Wells died with unfulfilled ambitions: Wells’s key intellectual influences were Darwin and Plato. If H. G. Wells asked, late in life, what he wanted for his epitaph, he chose the correctly educated human beings, liberated by the possibilities words, ‘I told you so. You damned fools.’ Even more than literary of future technology, can organize culture and politics in the best Time Traveler success, what Wells wanted was to teach his readership – indeed possible way, then a modern Republic might be possible. For No writer is more renowned for his ability to anticipate the his first two books, preceding The Time Machine by two years, Wells it was crucial for everyone to be taught about humankind’s future than H. G. Wells. His writing foresaw the aeroplane, the were textbooks, Honours Physiography and Text-Book of Biology. shared evolutionary origin, and for outmoded ideas of national tank, space travel, the atomic bomb, and the worldwide web; his Later in his career, he disavowed the term ‘artist’ for his declared sovereignty to be put aside in favor of building a utopian World fantastic fiction imagined time travel, flights to the moon, alien vocation, preferring ‘journalist.’ Wells did not merely want his State. If, however, humanity persisted with inadequate education, invasion, and human beings with the powers of gods. Wells is one creations to be aesthetically successful but to make a difference economic inequality, and nation states going to war against each of the most influential writers in the English language. In the years to life as it is really lived. On this issue, Wells explosively fell other, then the future he predicts for homo sapiens is a bleak one. between the wars he reached millions of readers worldwide with out with Henry James. Tiring of the older writer’s patronizing The Time Traveler journeys to the year 802,701 and witnesses The Outline of History, which told the story of humanity from its comments on his work, Wells cruelly lampooned him in his 1915 humanity having degenerated into the subspecies of the effete Eloi evolutionary origins to the utopian World State he hoped would novel Boon. In his 1934 Autobiography, Wells remembers the and the apelike Morlocks; traveling further into the future, he sees be the outcome of his prophecies, and broadcast his message Item 18, detail from illustration. disagreement thus: that all animal life on Earth has become extinct and no trace of us to cinema audiences in Things to Come. His major scientific remains. ‘Human history,’ he wrote in the Outline, ‘becomes more Item 26. romances The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds have never One could not be in a room with him for ten minutes without Item 4. and more a race between education and catastrophe.’ been out of print. Hailed as a genius from his debut in print, he has realizing the importance he attached to the dignity of this art Item 27. helped shape the imagination of a range of writers from George of his. But I was disposed to regard a novel as about as much Having seen his dreams of a co-operative world community Orwell to Jorge Luis Borges to every science fiction writer who has an art form as a marketplace or a boulevard. You went by it on thwarted not once but twice by catastrophic World Wars, in the come after him. your various occasions. 1940s Wells turned to ensuring human rights and freedom at the level of the individual. Letters that Wells wrote to the Times

While literature students are taught now to be suspicious of texts Item 29. newspaper led to the Sankey Committee for Human Rights, and which have a palpable design upon their reader, Wells’s aims for the influence of Wells’s 1942 pamphlet The Rights of Man; Or fiction to be useful are, in their way, more ambitious than James’s What Are We Fighting For? can be seen in the United Nations for the novel to be beautiful. In his essay ‘The Contemporary 1948 Declaration of Universal Human Rights. Passionate to the Novel,’ Wells called for the novel last for the lot of future generations to be better, Wells appeals for Item 23. international laws that will guarantee the right to life, education, to be the social mediator, the vehicle of understanding, the work, trade, and property for every man and woman on Earth. instrument of self- examination, the parade of morals and the Wells’s vision has passed into law but not yet into reality: this exchange of manners, the factory of customs, the criticism of twentieth-century prophet clearly has lessons from which the laws and institutions and of social dogmas and ideas. twenty-first century can still learn.

Simon J. James Durham University Item 28.

Item 16. Item 7, detail from title page. Item 9. Item 29, detail. Item 11. Item 24.