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The Favorite Short Stories of H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells

First published 1937
Publisher Doubleday, Doran
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Pages 437


31 stories The Time Machine and 30 short stories The so-called Favorite short stories appear to be those published by Doubleday, Doran in the first 437 pages of its 1015-page editions of the long-time comprehensive 63-story collection --from Doubleday as The Short Stories in 1929 and The Famous Short Stories in 1937. The sequence of stories appears to be unchanged from 1927 through 1988, in various editions and printings. So these may be everyone's first 31 of 63 stories.


No statement of printing on copyright page. Page numbers are from the 63-story 1015-page collection The Famous Stories of H. G. Wells (Doubleday, Doran, 1937). The 437 pages and 31 story titles reported for this one imply that it is a reprint truncated at page 437.

WorldCat provides a list of Contents, 31 story titles in the sequence below, under 3 section headings: • The Time Machine and Other Stories (8) • The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents (15) • The Plattner Story and Others (8) This appears to be a truncation of the 63-story collection, as if the first volume of a two-volume edition.

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 The Time Machine H. G. Wells Novella
88 The Empire of the Ants H. G. Wells Short Story
105 A Vision of Judgment H. G. Wells Short Story
111 The Land Ironclads H. G. Wells Novelette
135 The Beautiful Suit H. G. Wells Short Story
140 The Door in the Wall H. G. Wells Short Story
158 The Pearl of Love H. G. Wells Short Story
163 The Country of the Blind H. G. Wells Novelette
191 The Stolen Bacillus H. G. Wells Short Story
198 The Flowering of the Strange Orchid H. G. Wells Short Story
207 In the Avu Observatory H. G. Wells Short Story
215 The Triumphs of a Taxidermist H. G. Wells Short Story
219 A Deal in Ostriches H. G. Wells Short Story
224 Through a Window H. G. Wells Short Story
233 The Temptation of Harringay H. G. Wells Short Story
239 The Flying Man H. G. Wells Short Story
246 The Diamond Maker H. G. Wells Short Story
254 Æpyornis Island H. G. Wells Short Story
266 The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes H. G. Wells Short Story
277 The Lord of the Dynamos H. G. Wells Short Story
287 The Hammerpond Park Burglary H. G. Wells Short Story
295 The Moth H. G. Wells Short Story
306 The Treasure in the Forest H. G. Wells Short Story
317 The Plattner Story H. G. Wells Short Story
338 The Argonauts of the Air H. G. Wells Short Story
351 The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham H. G. Wells Short Story
369 In the Abyss H. G. Wells Short Story
386 The Apple H. G. Wells Short Story
395 Under the Knife H. G. Wells Short Story
410 The Sea Raiders H. G. Wells Short Story
421 Pollock and the Porroh Man H. G. Wells Short Story