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The Magic Shop

Author
H. G. Wells
Read by
Raphael Croft
Language
English
Length
20 minutes
ISBN
9781802566253
Published
17 May 2025
Imprint
Fantastica
  • Science fiction
  • sci fi
  • h.g. wells
  • philosophy
  • adventure
  • action
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • time travel
  • future

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Description

A father, a boy, a shop that sells more than tricks. Wells’s Magic Shop begins as a treat and turns the screw: objects that should not work, a proprietor who should not smile like that. Wonder with a draught under the door. Gideon wants the trick; the father wants it to be a shop. What they buy is a lesson in not asking for too much wonder. Wells turning a High Street treat into a mild nightmare. Gideon’s treat, a proprietor who smiles too much, a rule of wonder you should not test. Read in English, unabridged.

Author

H. G. Wells (1866–1946) was born in Bromley, trained in biology under Huxley, and turned that laboratory habit into fiction. The Time Machine sent a Victorian into deep time; The War of the Worlds brought the sky down on the Home Counties. He wrote as if the future were a social problem with monsters attached. The novels argue while they entertain. A draper's son who made scientific romance a public language.

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