Chapter I: Front Matter

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.

To
All Schoolmasters and Schoolmistresses
and every
Teacher in the World

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
1. THE PROLOGUE IN HEAVEN 1

2. AT SEA VIEW, SUNDERING-ON-SEA 17

3. THE THREE VISITORS 39

4. DO WE TRULY DIE? 100

5. ELIHU REPROVES JOB 133

6. THE OPERATION 200

7. LETTERS AND A TELEGRAM 214

THE UNDYING FIRE