H. G. Wells 47 min read

Four of Wells's finest strange tales, buried treasure, a flying man, and the terrors of Aepyornis Island, in Finnish.

This Finnish collection gathers H. G. Wells short stories including 'The Treasure in the Forest,' 'The Flying Man,' 'Aepyornis Island,' and 'The Triumphs of a Taxidermist,' opening on two men rowing toward a fatal shore. Prime Wells, ranging from adventure to dark comedy, from the founding imagination of the genre. Read it for classic Wells short fiction, sharp, strange, and endlessly inventive.

In its time

Published in 1911, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

47 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).