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The Door in the Wall and Other Stories |  | Author: H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Publisher: Public Domain Books
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  4 reviews
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B000SN6IN2
Publication Date: March 1, 1996
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 Still fun to read March 20, 2010
Louie Louie (Saipan)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
These eight stories were better than I remembered them. In these stories, Wells wrote mainly about the time he lived in, and he is very capable of bringing the reader back to the time and helping them to see just what it was like. From a historical perspective, fascinating.
The plots are intriguing, and the characters are believable. Unlike Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who I think was only able to bring Holmes and Watson to life and found it difficult to write about other characters, Wells creates numerous characters that come alive.
Even the Country of the Blind, which I never liked much before, was interesting not just as a story but as a provocative statement on culture, religion and science.
I loved this book and highly recommend it.
 More Wall Than Door November 27, 2009
Joanne Marinelli (Philadelphia, PA USA)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Wells is never quite able to break free from an industrial age mindset, and this has always been one of his drawbacks for me towards the appreciation of his work. The title story stands on its own as a classic juxtaposition of cosmopolitan worldliness against idyllic innocence, but Wells was never visionary enough to transcend his time, and his scientific suppositions seem quaint by today's standards, especially "A Dream of Armageddon" which is pretty much a contradiction in terms, even if one accepts the historical constraints on the author. "The Lord of the Dynamics" is also offensively exploitative even if you allow for the bigotry of the age. There may be some minor typographical errors that the text preparer missed, particularly in "The Cone," I am not sure, but if you like the faith in mechanical supremacy that so called classical speculative fiction offers, then you like H.G. Wells, but he just isn't quite my cup of tea, even conceding his place as a master storyteller.
good stories November 6, 2009
Cynthia A. Thornton (Hot Springs, AR)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I got this book in an instant on my Kindle and so far I love it. I haven't yet read all the stories but the ones I have read I have really enjoyed. It's really easy to read even though it's written in an old style.
 Free SF Reader January 20, 2008
Blue Tyson
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
Another collection somewhat like Twelve Stories and a Dream, with a mixture of genres. This one throws in a couple of darkly humoured pieces in the last three stories. The best are Empire of the Ants and The Country of the Blind.
Door In the Wall. G. Wells : The Door in the Wall - H. G. Wells
Door In the Wall. G. Wells : The Empire of the Ants - H. G. Wells
Door In the Wall. G. Wells : A Vision of Judgment - H. G. Wells
Door In the Wall. G. Wells : The Land Ironclads - H. G. Wells
Door In the Wall. G. Wells : The Beautiful Suit - H. G. Wells
Door In the Wall. G. Wells : The Pearl of Love - H. G. Wells
Door In the Wall. G. Wells : The Country of the Blind - H. G. Wells
Door In the Wall. G. Wells : The Reconciliation - H. G. Wells
Door In the Wall. G. Wells : My First Aeroplane - H. G. Wells
Door In the Wall. G. Wells : Little Mother Up the Mörderberg - H. G. Wells
Door In the Wall. G. Wells : The Story of the Last Trump - H. G. Wells
Door In the Wall. G. Wells : The Grisly Folk - H. G. Wells
Other places to go.
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Just waiting for the takeover.
4 out of 5
Supernatural stuff seen.
2 out of 5
Give tanks a try.
3.5 out of 5
Fashion victim.
2.5 out of 5
It stings, chuck it away.
3 out of 5
Hard to be King, no matter how many eyes.
4 out of 5
Too much biffo is a killer.
3.5 out of 5
Pigs and vicars? Why are they upset?
3.5 out of 5
Snow way to climb a mountain.
3.5 out of 5
Judgement day music.
2.5 out of 5
Prehistoric people story.
3 out of 5
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