... COMET BY H. G. WELLS A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...e of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... life seems so cut off from the new, so alien and so unreasonable, that at times I find it bordering upon the in- credible. The data have gone, the bu... ...as caught midway in a gust of passion; and a curious accident put me for a time in the very nucleus of the new order. My memory takes me back across t... ...cketed “As used in the American army.” I had drawn out my balance from the savings bank, matter of two pounds and more, to make this purchase, and I f... ...eaks in our roof. We held our little house on lease; the owner was a mean, saving old man named Pettigrew, who lived in a villa adorned with plaster i... ...ys was with- drawn. As it ascended toward the zenith, as the last trailing daylight went after the abdicating sun, its greenish white il- lumination b... ...ions any more. A great desire had come to me to escape from life, from the daylight which is heat and conflict and desire, into that cool night of ete... ...es,” as we called them then—the United States of America, the Cape Colony, Australia, and New Zealand—spent much of the nineteenth century in the fran...

...Excerpt: I saw a gray-haired man, a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing: He seemed to be in a room in a tower, very high, so that through the tall window on his left one perceived only distances, a remote horizon of sea, a headland and that vague haze and glitter in the sunset that many miles away marks a city. A...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells, the ... ...ked incidents that make up the bulk of the book called T ales of Space and Time, no short story of mine of the slight- est merit is excluded from this... ...o longer anything of the kind. I have not written one now for quite a long time, and in the past five or six years I have made scarcely one a year. Th... ...hen you are engaged to him?” asked my wife. “Not engaged, ma’am; but he is saving money to buy a ring—hammyfist.” “Well, Jane, when you are properly e... ...continued, looking upward; “the moon is still smothered by the vestiges of daylight.” Horrocks stared at him with the expression of a man who has sudd... ...t him with the expression of a man who has suddenly awakened. “Vestiges of daylight? … Of course, 21 H.G . Wells of course.” He too looked up at the ... ...esday his chicks all had the staggers, on Friday his cousin came home from Australia, and on Saturday he broke his ankle. What a whirl of excitement!—... ...edifices had a singular resemblance to tombs and mausoleums and monuments, saving only that they were all uniformly black instead of being white, as m...

...Introduction: The enterprise of messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the two series of linked incidents that make up the bulk of the book called Tales of Space and Time, no short story of mine of the ...

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