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Short Fiction
章节(57)
- In the Modern Vein 0:00
- The Triumphs of a Taxidermist 24:43
- The Stolen Bacillus 34:30
- The Hammerpond Park Burglary 50:58
- The Jilting of Jane 1:08:30
- The Flowering of the Strange Orchid 1:25:10
- In the Avu Observatory 1:44:54
- The Diamond Maker 2:02:24
- The Treasure in the Forest 2:21:18
- Through a Window 2:40:28
- The Lord of the Dynamos 3:00:17
- Aepyornis Island 3:22:31
- A Deal in Ostriches 3:52:36
- The Flying Man 4:03:37
- The Temptation of Harringay 4:19:45
- The Moth 4:32:50
- The Remarkable Case of Davidson’s Eyes 4:58:07
- A Catastrophe 5:22:46
- Pollock and the Porroh Man 5:44:41
- The Cone 6:23:44
- The Argonauts of the Air 6:52:18
- A Slip Under the Microscope 7:22:06
- Under the Knife 8:08:29
- The Red Room 8:46:24
- The Plattner Story 9:09:50
- The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham 10:01:21
- In the Abyss 10:47:01
- The Apple 11:26:10
- The Purple Pileus 11:46:15
- The Sea Raiders 12:15:26
- The Crystal Egg 12:41:24
- The Lost Inheritance 13:25:51
- A Story of the Stone Age 13:42:50
- A Story of the Days to Come 16:10:02
- The Star 19:46:51
- The Man Who Could Work Miracles 20:18:05
- Miss Winchelsea’s Heart 21:02:53
- Mr. Ledbetter’s Vacation 21:47:21
- The Stolen Body 22:34:28
- Jimmy Goggles the God 23:15:39
- Mr. Brisher’s Treasure 23:47:24
- A Vision of Judgment 24:11:46
- A Dream of Armageddon 24:23:29
- The New Accelerator 25:31:29
- Filmer 26:07:21
- Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland 26:50:59
- The Land Ironclads 27:25:50
- The Valley of Spiders 28:19:13
- The Truth About Pyecraft 28:47:06
- The Magic Shop 29:11:30
- The Country of the Blind 29:38:09
- The Obliterated Man 30:40:34
- The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost 31:02:29
- The Door in the Wall 31:35:32
- The Empire of the Ants 32:20:01
- The Beautiful Suit 32:59:23
- The Pearl of Love 33:10:30
H. G. Wells is probably best known for his imaginative longer works, such as his novels The War of the Worlds and The Invisible Man; but he was also a prolific short story writer. This Standard Ebooks edition of his short fiction includes fifty-five of Wells’ stories, written between 1894 and 1909 and compiled from the collections The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents (1895), The Plattner Story and Others (1897), Tales of Time and Space (1899), Twelve Stories and a Dream (1903), The Country of the Blind and Other Stories (1911), and other sources. They are presented here in approximate order of first publication.
The stories vary wildly in genre and theme, ranging from tales of domestic romance, to ghost stories and tropical adventures, to far-future science fiction. Interestingly, many of the stories deal with the exciting but also frightening prospect of heavier-than-air flight and aerial warfare, and it is worth noting that these stories were written some years before the Wright brothers first took to the air.