<영어로 읽는 웰스의 역사소설 ? 생명과 이류의 평범한 역사 >
"The Whole Story of Man" 또는 "Beinging Plain History of Life and Mankind"라는 부제가 붙은 역사 개요는 H. G. Wells의 작품으로 지구의 기원에서 제 1 차 세계 대전까지 세계의 역사를 정리한 역사소설이다. 이 책은 200만부 이상 판매되었고, 여러 나라 언어로 번역되어 고등 교육기관의 역사교육에 상당한 영향을 미쳤다.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
BOOK I : THE MAKING OF OUR WORLD
Chapter I. The Earth in Space and Time
Chapter II. The Record of the Rocks
Chapter III. Natural Selection and the Changes of Species
Chapter IV. The Invasion of the Dry Land by Life
Chapter V. Changes in the World’s Climate
Chapter VI. The Age of Reptiles
Chapter VII. The Age of Mammals

BOOK II : THE MAKING OF MEN
Chapter VIII. The Ancestry of Man
Chapter IX. The Neanderthal Men, an Extinct Race. (The Early Palæolithic Age)
Chapter X. The Later Postglacial Palæolithic Men, the First True Men. (Later Palæolithic Age)
Chapter XI. Neolithic Man in Europe
Chapter XII. Early Thought
Chapter XIII. The Races of Mankind
Chapter XIV. The Languages of Mankind

BOOK III : THE DAWN OF HISTORY
Chapter XV. The Aryan-speaking Peoples in Prehistoric Times
Chapter XVI. The First Civilizations
Chapter XVII. Sea Peoples and Trading Peoples
Chapter XVIII. Writing
Chapter XIX. Gods and Stars, Priests and Kings
Chapter XX. Serfs, Slaves, Social Classes, and Free Individuals

BOOK IV : JUDEA, GREECE, AND INDIA
Chapter XXI. The Hebrew Scriptures and the Prophets
Chapter XXII. The Greeks and the Persians
Chapter XXIII. Greek Thought and Literature
Chapter XXIV. The Career of Alexander the Great
Chapter XXV. Science and Religion at Alexandria
Chapter XXVI. The Rise and Spread of Buddhism

BOOK V : THE RISE AND COLLAPSE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
Chapter XXVII. The Two Western Republics
Chapter XXVIII. From Tiberius Gracchus To the God Emperor in Rome
Chapter XXIX. The Cæsars between the Sea and the Great Plains of the Old World

BOOK VI : CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM
Chapter XXX. The Beginnings, the Rise, and the Divisions of Christianity
Chapter XXXI. Seven Centuries in Asia (CIRCA 50 B.C. TO A.D. 650)
Chapter XXXII. Muhammad and Arab Islam
Chapter XXXIII. Christendom and the Crusades

BOOK VII .THE GREAT MONGOL EMPIRES OF THE LAND WAYS AND THE NEW EMPIRES OF THE SEA WAYS
Chapter XXXIV. The Great Empire of Jengis Khan and his Successors
Chapter XXXV. The Renascence of Western Civilization

BOOK VIII .THE AGE OF THE GREAT POWERS
Chapter XXXVI. Princes, Parliaments, and Powers
Chapter XXXVII. The New Democratic Republics of America and France
Chapter XXXVIII. The Career of Napoleon Bonaparte
Chapter XXXIX. The Realities and Imagination of the Nineteenth Century. The Increase of Knowledge and Clear Thinking. The Nationalist Phase
Chapter XL. The International Catastrophe of 1914 and the Close of the Great Power Period

BOOK IX . THE NEXT STAGE IN HISTORY
Chapter XLI. Man’s Coming of Age. The Probable Struggle for the Unification of the World into one Community of Knowledge and Will