THE DOOR IN THE WALL AND OTHER TALES - 8 Titles in One Edition

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H. G. Wells. THE DOOR IN THE WALL AND OTHER TALES - 8 Titles in One Edition

THE DOOR IN THE WALL AND OTHER TALES - 8 Titles in One Edition

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Table of Contents

The Door in the Wall

I

II

III

IV

The Star

A Dream of Armageddon

The Cone

A Moonlight Fable

The Diamond Maker

The Lord of the Dynamos

The Country of the Blind

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H. G. Wells

A Dream of Armageddon

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“Did you ever play North-West Passage with me? … . . No, of course you didn’t come my way!”

“It was the sort of game,” he went on, “that every imaginative child plays all day. The idea was the discovery of a North-West Passage to school. The way to school was plain enough; the game consisted in finding some way that wasn’t plain, starting off ten minutes early in some almost hopeless direction, and working one’s way round through unaccustomed streets to my goal. And one day I got entangled among some rather low-class streets on the other side of Campden Hill, and I began to think that for once the game would be against me and that I should get to school late. I tried rather desperately a street that seemed a cul de sac, and found a passage at the end. I hurried through that with renewed hope. ‘I shall do it yet,’ I said, and passed a row of frowsy little shops that were inexplicably familiar to me, and behold! there was my long white wall and the green door that led to the enchanted garden!

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