Audiobook46 minutes
The Door in the Wall: Classic Tales Edition
Written by H. G. Wells
Narrated by B. J. Harrison
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About this audiobook
A young boy unlocks a world of joy and imagination. But when he returns the next day, he finds the door is not there. It has moved. How can a door move? And what is the real meaning of The Door in the Wall?
Author
H. G. Wells
H.G. Wells is considered by many to be the father of science fiction. He was the author of numerous classics such as The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The War of the Worlds, and many more.
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Reviews for The Door in the Wall
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5this is the first time I give 5 ⭐ rating to h g wells book.. the audiobook is amazing
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Maybe my favorite short story of all time. Good reading, too.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Reason for Reading: I enjoy the author.This is a small book, about the size of a man's hand and contains three short stories. 2011 is the fiftieth anniversary of the Penguin Modern Classics list and in honour of this event they have published 50 of these "Mini Modern" books to celebrate the great short story writers. The books are all uniform.I like H.G. Wells; I've read all his fiction, some of the novels more than once. I especially like his science fiction, the classics "The Time Machine" and "The Invisible Man". I read his short stories when I was a kid in a humongous old tome entitled "The Complete Works of H.G. Wells", though it's completeness was referring to his fiction, so I must have come across these stories at least once before though they were not familiar to me at this reading. The three stories are very different from each other. The first is mostly humorous with a trick ending, the second is what we expect when we hear the name H.G. Wells: science fiction and the third is more a horror story in the vein on Poe. None of the stories were particularly impressive to me. They were all OK, with the sci-fi one standing out amongst the three but I'm sure someone could have picked three more outstanding stories to represent this great writer. Overall, just OK.The Door in the Wall - The titular story in this collection and the longest is about a man who recounts the story of an old school chum who came to visit him in the night who tells him the tale of how he has been haunted his entire life by a mysterious door in the wall, which he entered once, and the narrator tells us how this story ends tragically. 3/5The Sea Raiders - A day when the Devonshire coast is attacked by strange aggressive man-eating tentacled sea creatures. My favourite of the collection. 4/5The Moth - A man is either being haunted by his late academic rival or his death has driven him insane. 3/5
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5An uninspiring collection of short stories. I was disappointed with this book after reading The War of the Worlds, which is brilliant. The stories were not very interesting and fell short somehow. The storytelling was somewhat lacking. H.G. Wells is not a master of the short story!There appears to different versions of this book. My copy contained the following stories:The Door in the WallThe StarA Dream of ArmageddonThe ConeA Moonlight FableThe Diamond MakerThe Lord of the DynamosThe Country of the Blind
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Includes "The Country of the Blind." There is little science fiction per se in this collection, and aside from "The Country of the Blind" the stories as a whole are a bit mediocre, though "The Door in the Wall" and "A Midnight Fable" do have an air of fantasy and whimsicality to them and "The Star" is a fairly interesting "end of the world" disaster story.