<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
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
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| 1897 |
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Thirty Strange Stories | Edward Arnold | Collection | 216 |
| March 1897 |
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The Plattner Story and Others | Methuen | Collection | 274 |
| 1898 |
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Thirty Strange Stories | Harper & Brothers | Collection | 216 |
| July 1900 |
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The Plattner Story and Others | Tauchnitz | Collection | 269 |
| 1905 |
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Novelle straordinarie | Fratelli Treves | Collection | 186 |
| August 1911 |
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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 |
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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 |
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The Short Stories of H. G. Wells | Ernest Benn | Collection | 591 |
| 1927 |
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The Short Stories of H. G. Wells | Ernest Benn | Collection | 591 |
| September 1927 |
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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 |
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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 |
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The Famous Short Stories of H. G. Wells | Doubleday, Doran | Collection | 517 |
| 1938 |
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The Famous Short Stories of H. G. Wells | Garden City Publishing Co. | Collection | 517 |
| 1938 |
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The Famous Short Stories of H. G. Wells | Doubleday, Doran | Collection | 517 |
| September 1946 |
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The Time Machine: An Invention and Other Stories | Penguin Books | Collection | 202 |
| 1948 |
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The Short Stories of H. G. Wells | Ernest Benn | Collection | 591 |
| 1954 | Tales of Life and Adventure | Collins | Collection | ||
| 1957 |
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The Short Stories of H. G. Wells | Ernest Benn | Collection | 591 |
| 1960 |
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The Short Stories of H. G. Wells | Ernest Benn | Collection | |
| 1965 | The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells | Ernest Benn | Collection | ||
| 1965 |
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Tales of Life and Adventure | Collins | Collection | 149 |
| February 1965 |
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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 |
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The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells | Ernest Benn | Collection | 529 |
| 1974 |
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Thirty Strange Stories | Causeway Books | Collection | 216 |
| 1974 |
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The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells | Ernest Benn | Collection | 529 |
| 1982 |
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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 |
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The Country of the Blind and Other Stories | Oxford University Press | Collection | |18 |
| March 1998 |
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Thirty Strange Stories | Carroll & Graf | Collection | 173 |
| August 1998 |
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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 |
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Selected Stories of H. G. Wells | Modern Library | Collection | 5 |
| January 2006 |
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The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories | The Echo Library | Collection | |18 |
| May 2007 |
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The Country of the Blind and Other Selected Stories | Penguin Books | Collection | |8 |
| December 2007 |
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The Country of the Blind and Other Selected Stories | Penguin Books | Collection | 81 |
| March 2010 |
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The Country of the Blind and Other Stories | Waking Lion Press | Collection | 169 |
| April 2011 |
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Complete Short Story Omnibus | Gollancz | Collection | 272 |
| January 2013 |
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The Country of the Blind and Other Stories | CreateSpace | Collection | 130 |
| April 2013 |
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The Plattner Story and Others | Forgotten Books | Collection | |
| June 2013 |
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The Plattner Story and Others | Project Gutenberg | Collection | |274 |
| July 2013 |
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The Country of the Blind and Other Stories | CreateSpace | Collection | 249 |
| February 2015 |
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A Slip Under the Microscope | Penguin Books | Collection | 27 |
| February 2015 |
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A Slip Under the Microscope | Penguin Books | Collection | |2 |
| January 2017 |
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The Crystal Egg and Other Stories | Wordsworth Editions | Collection | 175 |
| April 2017 |
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The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories | Enhanced Media Publishing | Collection | |18 |
| June 2019 | Thirty Strange Stories | Project Gutenberg | Collection | |216 | |
| March 2024 |
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Tales of Life and Adventure | Faded Page | Collection | |17 |