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The Undying Fire: A contemporary novel

Chapter 1: THE UNDYING FIRE A CONTEMPORARY NOVEL
By H. G. Wells
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A philosophical novel opens with a cosmic exchange between a veiled divine presence and an energetic adversary debating creation, uniqueness, and the source of life. The scene shifts to a seaside community where ordinary domestic rhythms are disrupted by mysterious visitors and urgent moral dilemmas. A grave human crisis leads to a medical operation and sustained inquiry into whether death is final, while letters and telegrams link personal loss to public argument. By interleaving celestial disputation, intimate drama, clinical intervention, and epistolary detail, the work examines faith, free will, and the uneasy coexistence of scientific inquiry and spiritual belief.

THE UNDYING FIRE
Mr. Wells has also written the following novels:
  • LOVE AND MR. LEWISHAM
  • KIPPS
  • MR. POLLY
  • THE WHEELS OF CHANCE
  • THE NEW MACHIAVELLI
  • ANN VERONICA
  • TONO BUNGAY
  • MARRIAGE
  • BEALBY
  • THE PASSIONATE FRIENDS
  • THE WIFE OF SIR ISAAC HARMAN
  • THE RESEARCH MAGNIFICENT
  • MR. BRITLING SEES IT THROUGH
  • THE SOUL OF A BISHOP
  • JOAN AND PETER

The following fantastic and imaginative romances:

  • THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
  • THE TIME MACHINE
  • THE WONDERFUL VISIT
  • THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU
  • THE SEA LADY
  • THE SLEEPER AWAKES
  • THE FOOD OF THE GODS
  • THE WAR IN THE AIR
  • THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON
  • IN THE DAYS OF THE COMET
  • THE WORLD SET FREE
And numerous short stories now collected in one volume under the title of
  • THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND

A series of books upon social, religious, and political questions:

  • ANTICIPATIONS (1900)
  • MANKIND IN THE MAKING
  • FIRST AND LAST THINGS
  • NEW WORLDS FOR OLD
  • A MODERN UTOPIA
  • THE FUTURE IN AMERICA
  • AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD
  • WHAT IS COMING?
  • ITALY, FRANCE, AND GREAT BRITAIN AT WAR
  • GOD THE INVISIBLE KING
  • IN THE FOURTH YEAR

And two little books about children’s play, called:

  • FLOOR GAMES and LITTLE WARS

THE UNDYING FIRE
A CONTEMPORARY NOVEL

BY
H. G. WELLS
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1919
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1919,
By H. G. WELLS.
Set up and electrotyped. Published May, 1919.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
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