The Treasure In The Forest

Name: The Treasure In The Forest
Author: H. G. Wells
ISBN: 9781787242050

Author: H. G. Wells
Series: World Classics
Language: English
Length: 18 pages
ISBN: 9781787242050
Published: 5 March 2017
Imprint: Fantastica

Science fiction
sci fi
h.g. wells
philosophy
adventure
action
fiction
fantasy
time travel
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Evans and Hooker canoe into a tropical forest after killing Chang-hi for his map to Spanish gold. They find a corpse beside a hole of ingots and thorns like poisoned darts; greed ignores the chart's warning. Evans falls; Hooker reads the dashes too late as the poison takes him. Wells's short tale of treasure that kills the men who seize it.

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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