• Publication: The Famous Short Stories of H. G. WellsPublication Record # 811291
• Author: H. G. Wells
• Date: 1938-00-00
• Publisher: Garden City Publishing Co.
• Pages: vi+1015
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes: • No statement of printing on copyright page. • First printing has Doubleday, Doran device on copyright page. [Currey] • Reissue of The Short Stories of H. G. Wells • Both Clutes have the year as 1938, Currey and OCLC have 1937 Based on the Literary Guild copy of 1937: • page numbers • The story listed as "My First Aeroplane" is given in the table of contents and on the story as "My First Aëroplane". The story has a subtitle of ("Alaudra Magna"). • The story listed as "A Dream of Armageddon" is listed as such in the table of contents, but the story's title is "The Dream" over "A Dream of Armageddon".
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 1037375241
  • Reginald-1: 15067B

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 3 • The Time Machine • [H. G. Wells' Time Machine Universe] • (1895) • novel by H. G. Wells
• 88 • The Empire of the Ants • (1905) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 105 • A Vision of Judgment • (1911) • short story by H. G. Wells (variant of A Vision of Judgement 1899)
• 111 • The Land Ironclads • (1903) • novelette by H. G. Wells
• 135 • The Beautiful Suit • non-genre • (1909) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 140 • The Door in the Wall • (1906) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 158 • The Pearl of Love • (1925) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 163 • The Country of the Blind • (1904) • novelette by H. G. Wells
• 191 • The Stolen Bacillus • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 198 • The Flowering of the Strange Orchid • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 207 • In the Avu Observatory • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 215 • The Triumphs of a Taxidermist • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 219 • A Deal in Ostriches • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 224 • Through a Window • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 233 • The Temptation of Harringay • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 239 • The Flying Man • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 246 • The Diamond Maker • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 254 •
  Æpyornis Island^?Aepyornis Island
  • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 266 • The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 277 • The Lord of the Dynamos • non-genre • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 287 • The Hammerpond Park Burglary • non-genre • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 295 • The Moth • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 306 • The Treasure in the Forest • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 317 • The Plattner Story • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 338 • The Argonauts of the Air • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 351 • The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 369 • In the Abyss • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 386 • The Apple • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 395 • Under the Knife • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 410 • The Sea Raiders • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells (variant of The Sea-Raiders)
• 421 • Pollock and the Porroh Man • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 438 • The Red Room • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 448 • The Cone • non-genre • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 460 • The Purple Pileus • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 473 • The Jilting of Jane • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 481 • In the Modern Vein: An Unsympathetic Love Story • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 492 • A Catastrophe • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 501 • The Lost Inheritance • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 508 • The Sad Story of a Dramatic Critic • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 517 • A Slip Under the Microscope • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 539 • The Reconciliation • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 549 • My First Aeroplane • [Little Mother • 1] • (1910) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 563 • Little Mother Up the Mörderberg • [Little Mother • 2] • (1910) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 577 • The Story of the Last Trump • (1915) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 595 • The Grisly Folk • (1921) • essay by H. G. Wells
• 613 • The Crystal Egg • (1897) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 631 • The Star • (1897) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 643 • A Story of the Stone Age • (1899) • novella by H. G. Wells (variant of Stories of the Stone Age 1897)
• 701 • A Story of the Days to Come • (1899) • novella by H. G. Wells
• 792 • The Man Who Could Work Miracles • (1898) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 813 • Filmer • (1901) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 832 • The Magic Shop • (1903) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 844 • The Valley of Spiders • (1903) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 856 • The Truth About Pyecraft • (1903) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 867 • Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland • (1903) • short story by H. G. Wells (variant of Mr Skelmersdale in Fairyland)
• 881 • The Inexperienced Ghost • (1902) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 895 • Jimmy Goggles the God • (1898) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 908 • The New Accelerator • (1901) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 923 • Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation • (1898) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 942 • The Stolen Body • (1898) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 959 • Mr. Brisher's Treasure • (1899) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 970 • Miss Winchelsea's Heart • (1898) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 988 • A Dream of Armageddon • (1901) • novelette by H. G. Wells