Tales of Space and Time

Project Gutenberg's Tales of Space and Time, by Herbert George Wells This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Tales of Space and Time Author: Herbert George Wells Release Date: November 30, 2008 [EBook #27365] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TALES OF SPACE AND TIME *** Produced by Chris Curnow, Lindy Walsh, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Tales of Space and Time Tales of Space and Time By H. G. WELLS, Author of "When the Sleeper Wakes" "The War of the Worlds" etc. HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS L O N D O N A N D N E W Y O R K 1900 Copyright, 1899, by Harper & Brothers All rights reserved Transcriber's Note: Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Dialect and variant spellings have been retained. Contents PAGE The Crystal Egg 1 The Star 35 A Story of the Stone Age 59 A Story of the Days to Come 165 The Man who could Work Miracles 325 [1] THE CRYSTAL EGG There was, until a year ago, a little and very grimy-looking shop near Seven Dials, over which, in weather-worn yellow lettering, the name of "C. Cave, Naturalist and Dealer in Antiquities," was inscribed.