Selected Stories of H. G. Wells by H G Wells

Selected Stories of H. G. Wells by H G Wells

Ursula K. Le Guin's selection of twenty-six stories showcases H. G. Wells's genius and reintroduces readers to his singular talent for making the unbelievable seem utterly plausible.

He envisioned a sky filled with airplanes before Orville Wright ever left the ground. He described the spectacle of space travel decades before men set foot on the moon. H. G. Wells was a visionary, a man of science with an enduring literary touch, and his originality and inventiveness are fully on display in this essential collection.

Wells imagined both dark and bright futures because his creed allowed both while promising neither, and because the eighty years of his life were years of immense intellectual and technological accomplishment and appalling violence and destruction.--Ursula K. Le Guin, from the introduction

Everything one imagines in the way of genius and fun.--Rebecca West

Including these stories:

A Slip Under the Microscope
The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes
The Plattner Story
Under the Knife
The Crystal Egg
The New Accelerator
The Stolen Body
The Argonauts of the Air
In the Abyss
The Star
The Land Ironclads
A Dream of Armageddon
The Lord of the Dynamos
The Valley of Spiders
The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
The Magic Shop
Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland
The Door in the Wall
The Presence by the Fire
A Vision of Judgment
The Story of the Last Trump
The Wild Asses of the Devil
Answer to Prayer
The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper
The Country of the Blind

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ISBN 13	9780812970753
ISBN 10	0812970756
Title	Selected Stories of H. G. Wells
Author	H G Wells
Series	Modern Library Classics
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2004-07-13
Number of pages	432
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