Thirty Strange Stories

by HG Wells

Contents

  1. Title page and introductory matter
  2. CONTENTS
  3. THE STRANGE ORCHID
  4. ÆPYORNIS ISLAND
  5. THE PLATTNER STORY
  6. THE ARGONAUTS OF THE AIR
  7. THE STORY OF THE LATE MR. ELVESHAM
  8. THE STOLEN BACILLUS
  9. THE RED ROOM
  10. A MOTH (GENUS UNKNOWN)
  11. IN THE ABYSS
  12. UNDER THE KNIFE
  13. THE RECONCILIATION
  14. A SLIP UNDER THE MICROSCOPE
  15. IN THE AVU OBSERVATORY
  16. THE TRIUMPHS OF A TAXIDERMIST
  17. A DEAL IN OSTRICHES
  18. THE RAJAH’S TREASURE
  19. THE STORY OF DAVIDSON’S EYES — I
  20. II
  21. III
  22. IV
  23. V
  24. THE CONE
  25. THE PURPLE PILEUS
  26. A CATASTROPHE
  27. LE MARI TERRIBLE
  28. THE APPLE
  29. THE SAD STORY OF A DRAMATIC CRITIC
  30. THE JILTING OF JANE
  31. THE LOST INHERITANCE
  32. POLLOCK AND THE PORROH MAN
  33. THE SEA RAIDERS — I
  34. II
  35. III
  36. IN THE MODERN VEIN AN UNSYMPATHETIC LOVE STORY
  37. THE LORD OF THE DYNAMOS
  38. THE TREASURE IN THE FOREST