Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>The Oxford Handbook of H. G. Wells offers a wide-ranging overview of the life and work of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Accessible to scholars, students, and general readers, the forty-seven chapters, written by an international and multidisciplinary team of Wells scholars, range across his remarkable literary output—including his short stories, novels, and journalism—as well as his voluminous sociological, historical, and political writings. The volume combines analysis of famous individual texts by Wells, such as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, and The Outline of History, with explorations of important themes in his work, including evolutionary theory, technology, time, empire, socialism, race, eugenics, feminism, war, and the natural environment. The volume concludes with discussion of the impact Wells had on writers around the world.</jats:p>