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Title: Tales of Space and Time

Author: Herbert George Wells

Release Date: November 30, 2008 [EBook #27365]

Language: English

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Tales of Space and Time

Tales of Space
and Time

_By_ H. G. WELLS, _Author
of "When the Sleeper Wakes"
"The War of the Worlds"
etc._

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HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
LONDON AND NEW YORK
1900

Copyright, 1899, by HARPER & BROTHERS

_All rights reserved_

Transcriber's Note:

Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Dialect
and variant spellings have been retained. The oe ligature is shown
as {oe}, whilst the Greek letter _theta_ is represented by {th}.

Contents

PAGE
THE CRYSTAL EGG 1

THE STAR 35

A STORY OF THE STONE AGE 59

A STORY OF THE DAYS TO COME 165

THE MAN WHO COULD WORK MIRACLES 325

THE CRYSTAL EGG

There was, until a year ago, a little and very grimy-looking shop near
Seven Dials, over which, in weather-worn yellow lettering, the name of
"C. Cave, Naturalist and Dealer in Antiquities," was inscribed. The
contents of its window were curiously variegated. They comprised some
elephant tusks and an imperfect set of chessmen, beads and weapons, a
box of eyes, two skulls of tigers and one human, several moth-eaten
stuffed monkeys (one holding a lamp), an old-fashioned cabinet, a
flyblown ostrich egg or so, some fishing-tackle, and an extraordinarily
dirty, empty glass fish-tank. There was also, at the moment the story
begins, a mass of crystal, worked into the shape of an egg and
brilliantly polished. And at that two people, who stood outside the
window, were looking, one of them a tall, thin clergyman, the other a
bla