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User Review - eclecticdodo - LibraryThingA collection of 33 short stories, some excellent, some ok, and some plain pointless. It is presented as a book of science-fiction but some of the stories are simply observations on life and not sci-fi ... Read full review
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| Title | The Plattner Story and Others Methuen's colonial library |
| Author | Herbert George Wells |
| Publisher | Methuen & Company, 1897 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Dec 12, 2007 |
| Length | 301 pages |
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