The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories
H. G. Wells
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A collection of short stories by H. G. Wells, author of "The Time Machine" and "War of the Worlds". The science fiction master ranges over a variety of topics, each original and unexpected. Included in this collection is "The Country of the Blind" where a man with sight hopes to make himself king. In other stories a stranger offers to sell diamonds on the street, a magic door appears requires a sacrifice to go through it, a demon machine tries to become a god, an engineer finds an engineering solution to a love triangle, and a man dreams or does he? - Summary by Beth Thomas (5 hr 0 min)
Chapters
The Door in the Wall | 53:25 | Read by J. Olpecre |
The Star | 30:23 | Read by Jacquelyn Bengfort |
The Cone | 34:01 | Read by EmmaS |
A Moonlight Fable | 11:21 | Read by Andrea Kotzer |
The Diamond Maker | 20:10 | Read by JudyDerby |
Lord of the Dynamos | 27:43 | Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024) |
The Country of the Blind (Part 1) | 31:24 | Read by VfkaBT |
The Country of the Blind (Part 2) | 33:15 | Read by VfkaBT |
A Dream of Armageddon (Part 1) | 26:09 | Read by R.J. Siva |
A Dream of Armageddon (Part 2) | 33:07 | Read by R.J. Siva |
Reviews
A Fun Collection
Teichert
H.G. Wells is always fun and intriguing. This collection, though not as strong as his more famous works, is no different really. I particularly liked "The Star," "Lord of the Dynamos," and "The Country of the Blind." I don't know what the reader of "The Cone" was doing. I couldn't understand so much of the story that I had to look it up online to figure it out.