The Man Who Could Create Miracles. Novellas, Stories

The English writer Herbert Wells is known primarily as the author of the novels «The Time Machine», «The Invisible Man», «The War of the Worlds». However, Wells also created numerous short stories marked by inexhaustible imagination, astonishing thematic breadth, and consistently engaging plots. This collection includes almost all of the writer's minor prose - novellas and stories, from the first attempts of Wells the student to the later works written by an already recognized master of literature, thinker, scientist, and public figure, acclaimed by global fame. Most of the works included in the collection are published in new translations, almost two dozen of them have never been published in the USSR and Russia.