Tono-Bungay

A draper's assistant takes a cycling holiday and collides, literally, with a young woman running away from home. A comic road novel drawn straight from the shop counter Wells escaped.

H. G. Wells

A poor science student maps out his whole career on a schedule pinned to the wall, and then falls in love. The first novel where Wells wrote about his own life rather than the future.

H. G. Wells

A shop assistant inherits a fortune and discovers that money does not come with instructions for how to behave. Wells thought this was the best thing he ever wrote.

H. G. Wells

A young woman walks out of her father's house to study biology and live on her own terms. The book was denounced from pulpits and banned from libraries when it appeared.

H. G. Wells

A miserable shopkeeper decides to burn down his shop and walk away from his life. Wells' funniest novel, and the one that most clearly says what he thought of respectable failure.

H. G. Wells