H. G. Wells 2 hr 34 min read

One confidential evening, Lionel Wallace tells the narrator of a green door in a white wall that opened, once, onto an enchanted garden, a door he has glimpsed since, and always passed by.

H. G. Wells's 1911 collection gathers some of his finest short fiction, including the haunting title tale. Elegant, wistful, masterful. Read it for the father of modern SF in a quieter, more melancholy key, the unforgettable parable of the door to paradise, and other subtle wonders, from a master at the height of his art.

In its time

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

Reading it

2 hr 34 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).