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Short Fiction
was compiled from short stories published between 1894 and 1909 by
H. G. Wells.

This ebook was produced for
Standard Ebooks
by
Kenneth Williams and David Grigg,
and is based on transcriptions from
various sources
and on digital scans from
various sources.

The cover page is adapted from
In the Laboratory,
a painting completed in about 1856 by
Henry Alexander.
The cover and title pages feature the
League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy
typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by
The League of Moveable Type.

The first edition of this ebook was released on
February 15, 2019, 9:08 p.m.
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