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Twelve Stories and a Dream

H. G. Wells

Book Overview: 

Collection of short stories

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .after he had watched its monstrous alacrity of search and escape for a little while, and tempted it to bite his broken sword, he lifted up his iron-heeled boot and smashed it into a pulp. He swore as he did so, and for a time sought up and down for another.

Then presently, when he was surer these spider swarms could not drop into the ravine, he found a place where he could sit down, and sat and fell into deep thought and began after his manner to gnaw his knuckles and bite his nails. And from this he was moved by the coming of the man with the white horse.

He heard him long before he saw him, as a clattering of hoofs, stumbling footsteps, and a reassuring voice. Then the little man appeared, a rueful figure, still with a tail of white cobweb trailing behind him. They approached each other without speaking, without a salutation. The little man was fatigued and shamed to the pitch of hopeless bitterness, and came to a stop at last, face to face with hi. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Filmer 2.75⭐
The Magic Shop 3.5⭐
The Valley of Spiders 4.25⭐
The Truth About Pyecraft 3.5⭐
Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland 3.5⭐
The Inexperienced Ghost 4⭐
Jimmy Googles the God 4⭐
The New Accelerator 5⭐
Mrs. Ledbetter's Vacation 5⭐
The Stolen Body 5⭐
Mr. Brisher's Treasure 4⭐
Miss Winchelsea's Heart 3.5⭐
A Dream

Debo aceptar que no disfrute mucho las historias y terminé leyéndolo por obligación y no por gusto :'(

This is one of my favorite books, if only for the laughs of The Truth About Pyecraft, the mystery of The Magic Shop, and the tension of the Dream at the end. A must read for any HG Wells Fans.

I had almost forgotten how vivid and imaginative H. G. Wells could be. This book is a classic that forgot to get famous.
Each of the stories is a master piece in itself, fragments of brilliant storylines that netflix has not got to yet. Stories like "The Truth about Pyecraft" and "The New Accelerator

I had to check and double-check when this book was released.
1903.
I have read bits and pieces of Wells before, a short story here or there in other collections, but never really reflected on it like now.
This is as the title says, twelve stories and a, well, it's a story as well, about a dream, and

En la actualidad es difícil sorprender al aficionado al género fantástico y de ciencia ficción, con la cantidad de ideas y medios con los que nos bombardean. Pero hubo una época en que el público se sorprendía ante la atrevida imaginación de ciertos autores. Este era el caso de H.G. Wells, todo un p

Un compendio de historias con sus altos y sus bajos, pero que deja claro lo visionario que fue H.G. Wells. Mis favoritas fueron "Filmer", "Un nuevo acelerador" y "El corazón de Miss Wilchelsea".

Un genio.

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