The first concise publication of H. G. Wells's shorter fiction.

Contents:

• The Time Machine (1895)
• The Empire of the Ants (1905)
• A Vision of Judgement (1899)
• The Land Ironclads (1903)
• The Beautiful Suit (1909)
• The Door in the Wall (1906)
• The Pearl of Love (1925)
• The Country of the Blind (1904)
• The Stolen Bacillus (1894)
• The Flowering of the Strange Orchid (1894)
• In the Avu Observatory (1894)
• The Triumphs of a Taxidermist (1894)
• A Deal in Ostriches (1894)
• Through a Window (1894)
• The Temptation of Harringay (1895)
• The Flying Man (1893)
• The Diamond Maker (1894)
• Æpyornis Island (1894)
• The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes (1895)
• The Lord of the Dynamos (1894)
• The Hammerpond Park Burglary (1894)
• The Moth (1895)
• The Treasure in the Forest (1894)
• The Plattner Story (1896)
• The Argonauts of the Air (1895)
• The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham (1896)
• In the Abyss (1896)
• The Apple (1896)
• Under the Knife (1896)
• The Sea-Raiders (1896)
• Pollock and the Porroh Man (1895)
• The Red Room (1896)
• The Cone (1895)
• The Purple Pileus (1896)
• The Jilting of Jane (1894)
• In the Modern Vein: An Unsympathetic Love Story (1894)
• A Catastrophe (1895)
• The Lost Inheritance (1897)
• The Sad Story of a Dramatic Critic (1915)
• A Slip Under the Microscope (1896)
• The Reconciliation (1895)
• My First Aeroplane (1910)
• Little Mother Up the Mörderberg (1910)
• The Story of the Last Trump (1915)
• The Grisly Folk (1921)
• The Crystal Egg (1897)
• The Star (1897)
• A Story of the Stone Age (1897)
• A Story of the Days to Come (1899)
• The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1898)
• Filmer (1901)
• The Magic Shop (1903)
• The Valley of Spiders (1903)
• The Truth About Pyecraft (1903)
• Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland (1901)
• The Inexperienced Ghost (1902)
• Jimmy Goggles the God (1898)
• The New Accelerator (1901)
• Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation (1898)
• The Stolen Body (1898)
• Mr. Brisher's Treasure (1899)
• Miss Winchelsea's Heart (1898)
• A Dream of Armageddon (1901)