H. G. Wells 1 hr 47 min read

A distinguished bacteriologist hands a visitor a tube of deadly cholera to admire, never suspecting the pale stranger is an anarchist who means to loose the plague upon London.

This is a 1907 Finnish translation of H. G. Wells's early story collection The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents. Witty, inventive, superbly turned. Read it for a sparkling assortment of Wells's earliest tales, the title bioterror comedy plus strange orchids, a flying man, and Aepyornis Island, showing the young master's gift for the eerie and the ironic, here rendered for Finnish readers.

In its time

Published in 1895, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

1 hr 47 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).