The short stories of H.G. Wells
Publisher: Ernest Benn
Published: 1948
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1038
Subjects: English Science fiction; English Short stories
Notes: "Fourteenth impression 1948, New Edition (Reset) 1948"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: The time machine and other stories. The time machine ; The empire of the ants ; A vision of judgment ; The land ironclads ; The beautiful suit ; The door in the wall ; The pearl of love ; The country of the blind; title: The stolen bacillus and other incidents. The stolen bacillus ; The flowering of the strange orchid ; In the Avu Observatory ; The triumphs of a taxidermist ; A deal in ostriches ; Through a window ; The temptation of Harringay ; The flying man ; The diamond maker ; Aepyornis Island ; The remarkable case of Davidson's eyes ; The lord of the dynamos ; The hammerpond Park burglary ; The moth ; The treasure in the forest; title: The Plattner story and others. The Plattner story ; The argonauts of the air ; The story of the late Mr. Elvesham ; In the abyss ; The apple ; Under the knife ; The sea raiders ; Pollock and the Porroh man ; The red room ; The cone ; The purple pileus ; The jilting of Jane ; In the modern vein : an unsympathetic love story ; A catastrophe ; The lost inheritance ; The sad story of a dramatic critic ; A slip under the microscope; title: The reconciliation; title: My first aeroplane; title: Little mother up the Morderberg; title: The story of the last trump; title: The grisly folk; title: Tales of space and time. The crystal egg ; The star ; A story of the Stone Age ; A story of the days to come ; The man who could work miracles; title: Twelve stories and a dream. Filmer ; The magic shop ; The valley of spiders ; The truth about Pyecraft ; Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland ; The inexperienced ghost ; Jimmy Goggles the god ; The new accelerator ; Mr. Ledbetter's vacation ; The stolen body ; Mr. Brisher's treasure ; Miss Winchelsea's heart ; A dream of Armageddon.