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A Slip Under the Microscope

H. G. Wells

First published 1897
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

<br>A university botany student, who is in competition with another student for the affections of a third student, unintentionally 'cheats' in an exam.


First published in Yellow Book, January 1896
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1897 Cover Thirty Strange Stories Edward Arnold Collection 216
March 1897 Cover The Plattner Story and Others Methuen Collection 274
1898 Cover Thirty Strange Stories Harper & Brothers Collection 216
July 1900 Cover The Plattner Story and Others Tauchnitz Collection 269
1905 Cover Novelle straordinarie Fratelli Treves Collection 186
August 1911 Cover The Country of the Blind and Other Stories Thomas Nelson & Sons Collection 260
August 1913 The Country of the Blind and Other Stories Thomas Nelson & Sons Collection 260
1924 Cover Tales of Life and Adventure W. Collins Sons Collection 162
1925 The First Men in the Moon and Some More Human Stories T. Fisher Unwin Omnibus |3
1925 The First Men in the Moon and Some More Human Stories Charles Scribner's Sons Omnibus
1927 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 591
1927 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 591
September 1927 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 591
October 1927 The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 591
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
June 1931 A Slip Under the Microscope Haldeman-Julius Collection
1937 Cover The Famous Short Stories of H. G. Wells Doubleday, Doran Collection 517
1938 Cover The Famous Short Stories of H. G. Wells Garden City Publishing Co. Collection 517
1938 Cover The Famous Short Stories of H. G. Wells Doubleday, Doran Collection 517
September 1946 Cover The Time Machine: An Invention and Other Stories Penguin Books Collection 202
1948 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 591
1954 Tales of Life and Adventure Collins Collection
1957 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 591
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 149
February 1965 Cover The Inexperienced Ghost and Nine Other Stories Bantam Books Collection 90
July 1966 The Inexperienced Ghost and Nine Other Stories Bantam Books Collection 90
September 1966 Cover The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 529
1974 Cover Thirty Strange Stories Causeway Books Collection 216
1974 Cover The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 529
1982 Cover Works of H. G. Wells Avenel Books Omnibus 694
1987 The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells St. Martin's Press Collection 529
October 1996 Cover The Country of the Blind and Other Stories Oxford University Press Collection |18
March 1998 Cover Thirty Strange Stories Carroll & Graf Collection 173
August 1998 Cover The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells J. M. Dent Collection 250
April 2004 The Country of the Blind and Other Stories Project Gutenberg Collection |18
July 2004 Cover Selected Stories of H. G. Wells Modern Library Collection 5
January 2006 Cover The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories The Echo Library Collection |18
May 2007 Cover The Country of the Blind and Other Selected Stories Penguin Books Collection |8
December 2007 Cover The Country of the Blind and Other Selected Stories Penguin Books Collection 81
March 2010 Cover The Country of the Blind and Other Stories Waking Lion Press Collection 169
April 2011 Cover Complete Short Story Omnibus Gollancz Collection 272
January 2013 Cover The Country of the Blind and Other Stories CreateSpace Collection 130
April 2013 Cover The Plattner Story and Others Forgotten Books Collection
June 2013 Cover The Plattner Story and Others Project Gutenberg Collection |274
July 2013 Cover The Country of the Blind and Other Stories CreateSpace Collection 249
February 2015 Cover A Slip Under the Microscope Penguin Books Collection 27
February 2015 Cover A Slip Under the Microscope Penguin Books Collection |2
January 2017 Cover The Crystal Egg and Other Stories Wordsworth Editions Collection 175
April 2017 Cover The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories Enhanced Media Publishing Collection |18
June 2019 Thirty Strange Stories Project Gutenberg Collection |216
March 2024 Cover Tales of Life and Adventure Faded Page Collection |17