The Door in the Wall and Other Stories
THE DOOR IN THE WALL is the story of a promising public figure used up by his job and obsessed by a vision of an enchanted garden he had known as a child. It is a tale all of us know, the attempt to recover a period when our lives were simpler and complications lay far in the future.Other titles...
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THE DOOR IN THE WALL is the story of a promising public figure used up by his job and obsessed by a vision of an enchanted garden he had known as a child. It is a tale all of us know, the attempt to recover a period when our lives were simpler and complications lay far in the future.Other titles are: "The Star," "A Dream of Armageddon," "The Cone," "A Moonlight Fable," "The Diamond Maker," "The Lord of the Dynamos," and Wells' durably celebrated story of true freedom and the human spirit "The Country of the Blind."
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
2940012290380 (0012290386)
Publish date: February 26th 2011
Publisher: Classic Science Fiction
Pages no: 298
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Classics,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Literary Fiction,
Modern Classics,
Short Stories,
Fiction
I bought this collection on a whim a couple of years ago, and it languished on my shelf, unread. I had tried reading Wells before, back in college, War of the Worlds and The Time Machine, and was fairly unimpressed. His language was stuffy and old-fashioned, I thought, and his allegories tortured....
Kind of weird but still enjoyable.
Enchanted gardens with spotted panthers - that'll do me. A short story, very short indeed but good and thought-provoking.
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