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A Catastrophe

H. G. Wells

First published 1897
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

First published in the New Budget. Locus attributes it to an August 1895 edition. Other sources, including the Complete Short Story Omnibus, attribute it to the 04 April 1895 edition.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1897 Cover Thirty Strange Stories Edward Arnold Collection 345
March 1897 Cover The Plattner Story and Others Methuen Collection 239
1898 Cover Thirty Strange Stories Harper & Brothers Collection 345
July 1900 Cover The Plattner Story and Others Tauchnitz Collection 234
1905 Cover Novelle straordinarie Fratelli Treves Collection 174
1924 Cover Tales of Life and Adventure W. Collins Sons Collection 35
1925 In the Days of the Comet and Seventeen Short Stories T. Fisher Unwin Omnibus
1925 In the Days of the Comet and Seventeen Short Stories Charles Scribner's Sons Omnibus
1927 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 562
1927 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 562
September 1927 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 562
October 1927 The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 562
1929 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Doubleday, Doran Collection
1929 The Famous Short Stories of H. G. Wells The Literary Guild Collection
1930 Cover Der Apfel vom Baum der Erkenntnis Zsolnay Collection |11
1937 Cover The Famous Short Stories of H. G. Wells Doubleday, Doran Collection 492
1938 Cover The Famous Short Stories of H. G. Wells Garden City Publishing Co. Collection 492
1938 Cover The Famous Short Stories of H. G. Wells Doubleday, Doran Collection 492
September 1946 Cover The Time Machine: An Invention and Other Stories Penguin Books Collection 192
1948 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 562
1954 Tales of Life and Adventure Collins Collection
1957 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 562
1959 Cover De tijdmachine en andere verhalen Het Spectrum Collection 95
1960 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection
1965 The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection
1965 Cover Tales of Life and Adventure Collins Collection 48
September 1966 Cover The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 502
1974 Cover Thirty Strange Stories Causeway Books Collection 345
1974 Cover The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 502
1978 Cover De tijdmachine en andere verhalen Het Spectrum Collection 95
1984 Cover De tijdmachine en andere verhalen Het Spectrum Collection
1987 The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells St. Martin's Press Collection 502
1993 Cover De tijdmachine en andere verhalen Het Spectrum Collection 95
March 1998 Cover Thirty Strange Stories Carroll & Graf Collection 277
May 1998 Cover The Red Room and Other Stories Phoenix Collection 22
August 1998 Cover The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells J. M. Dent Collection 230
May 2007 Cover The Country of the Blind and Other Selected Stories Penguin Books Collection |4
December 2007 Cover The Country of the Blind and Other Selected Stories Penguin Books Collection 33
April 2011 Cover Complete Short Story Omnibus Gollancz Collection 250
April 2013 Cover The Plattner Story and Others Forgotten Books Collection
June 2013 Cover The Plattner Story and Others Project Gutenberg Collection |239
June 2019 Thirty Strange Stories Project Gutenberg Collection |345
March 2024 Cover Tales of Life and Adventure Faded Page Collection |5