| The Door in the Wall and Other Stories Contributor(s): Wells, H. G. (Author), 1stworld Library (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1421832429 ISBN-13: 9781421832425 Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society OUR PRICE: $25.60 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2007 Annotation: Large Format for easy reading. Collection of short stories. Modernist science fiction work. Focuses on the conflict between science and the imagination. From the author of such classics as The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds. "The Door in the Wall" is considered his finest short story. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 1110 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.72 lbs) 148 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: One confidential evening, not three months ago, Lionel Wallace told methis story of the Door in the Wall. And at the time I thought that so far as he was concerned it was a true story. He told it me with such a direct simplicity of conviction that I could not do otherwise than believe in him. But in the mor-ning, in my own flat, I woke to a different atmosphere, and as I lay in bed and recalled the things he had told me, stripped of the glamour of his earnest slow voice, denuded of the focussed shaded table light, the shadowy atmosphere that wrapped about him and the pleasant bright things, the dessert and glasses and napery of the dinner we had shared, making them for the time a bright little world quite cut off from every-day realities, I saw it all as frankly incredible. "He was mystifying " I said, and then: "How well he did it . . . . . It isn't quite the thing I should have expected him, of all people, to do well." |