novels and many short stories, articles and social tracts. His novels
are of three types: science fiction, realistic novels on contemporary
problems and social tracts.
Wells belonged to the world o f science. Science plays an
important part in his best works, but the principal theme, even in
these works is not science but the social problems o f the day. His
creative work is divided into two periods:
The first period begins in 1895 and lasts up to the outbreak
o f World War 1. His famous works of this period are: ’’The Time
Machine”, “The Invisible Man”, “The War o f the Worlds”, “The
First Men in the Moon”.
The second period comprises works written from 1914 up to
the end o f World War II. His most important works o f the period
are: “The War That Will End War”, ’’Russia in the Shadows”,
“The World of William Glissold”, “Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole
Island”, “Experiment in Autobiography”.
Well’s best works are his science fiction. They give the reader
from the very beginning a forward-looking habit, and that is ex
actly what the writer aimed at. He believed in the great liberation
that science could bring to man, but he blamed the existing sys
tem because it used scientific achievements for evil aims. His
criticism goes along two lines:
1. Scientific progress is more advanced than the cultural level
o f the people and their moral understanding o f how to make use
o f it. Such being the case, science will sooner be used for de
struction than for the good of mankind.
2. The enormous economic breach between the upper and
working classes is widened by scientific progress. If this process
goes on, it will lead to the degeneration of the human race. In the
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