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This collection of short stories by H. G. Wells is the most comprehensive yet, and showcases the hugely fertile imagination of the great author, whose ideas and storylines remain hugely relevant to this day.
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HG Wells was born in Bromley, Kent in 1866. After working as a draper's apprentice and pupil-teacher, he won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in 1884, studying under T H Huxley. It was with THE TIME MACHINE (1895) that he had his real breakthrough. Today he is regarded as one of the all-time greatest authors of science fiction.
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H.G. Wells is best known for his novels but he worked out many of his most original ideas, and ways of telling a story, in his short fiction. This magnificent collection brings together his entire short story output plus the novellas from "Tales of Space and Time" plus his introduction to "The Country of the Blind" - one of the most important statements on the short story. Most readers will probably turn first to the science fiction but they will also find ghost stories like 'The Red Room' and social comedies like 'The Jilting of Jane', all of which are testimony to Wells' astonishing diversity. Expensive, but a must buy for anybody intersted in science fiction, the short story or Edwardian literature.
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Great Writer. Varied stories. Hours of pleasure. I have read all of the short stories now and, in a couple of years time, I shall probably read them all again. Well worth purchasing.
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My Father received this book as a school prize back in the 1930's. I really enjoyed the stories and bought my own copy and now have bought a copy for my nephew, which I am sure he will enjoy too.
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