30 Strange Stories

H. G. Wells

• Publisher: Books on Demand
• Year: 2019
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783734707346
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Science Fiction
• Index: Literature

The buying of orchids always has in it a certain speculative flavour. You have before you the brown shrivelled lump of tissue, and for the rest you must trust your judgment, or the auctioneer, or your good-luck, as your taste may incline. The plant may be moribund or dead, or it may be just a respectable purchase, fair value for your money, or perhaps-for the thing has happened again and again-there slowly unfolds before the delighted eyes of the happy purchaser, day after day, some new variety, some novel richness, a strange twist of the labellum, or some subtler colouration or unexpected mimicry. Pride, beauty, and profit blossom together on one delicate green spike, and, it may be, even immortality. For the new miracle of Nature may stand in need of a new specific name, and what so convenient as that of its discoverer? "Johnsmithia"! There have been worse names.

Table of contents

• 30 Strange Stories
• THE STRANGE ORCHID
• ÆPYORNIS ISLAND
• THE PLATTNER STORY
• THE ARGONAUTS OF THE AIR
• THE STORY OF THE LATE MR. ELVESHAM
• THE STOLEN BACILLUS
• THE RED ROOM
• A MOTH(GENUS UNKNOWN)
• IN THE ABYSS
• UNDER THE KNIFE
• THE RECONCILIATION
• A SLIP UNDER THE MICROSCOPE
• IN THE AVU OBSERVATORY
• THE TRIUMPHS OF A TAXIDERMIST
• A DEAL IN OSTRICHES
• THE RAJAH’S TREASURE
• THE STORY OF DAVIDSON’S EYES
• THE CONE
• THE PURPLE PILEUS
• A CATASTROPHE
• LE MARI TERRIBLE
• THE APPLE
• THE SAD STORY OF A DRAMATIC CRITIC
• THE JILTING OF JANE
• THE LOST INHERITANCE
• POLLOCK AND THE PORROH MAN
• THE SEA RAIDERS
• IN THE MODERN VEINAN UNSYMPATHETIC LOVE STORY
• THE LORD OF THE DYNAMOS
• THE TREASURE IN THE FOREST
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