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    A Study Guide for H.G. Wells's "Door in the Wall"
    A Study Guide for H.G. Wells's "Door in the Wall"
    A Study Guide for H.G. Wells's "Door in the Wall"
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    A Study Guide for H.G. Wells's "Door in the Wall"

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    A Study Guide for H.G. Wells's "Door in the Wall," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 6, 2016
    ISBN9781535822107
    A Study Guide for H.G. Wells's "Door in the Wall"

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      A Study Guide for H.G. Wells's "Door in the Wall" - Gale

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      The Door in the Wall

      H. G. Wells

      1911

      Introduction

      H. G. Wells’s short story The Door in the Wall was first published in 1911 as part of a collection titled The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories. The conflict between science and imagination is the major theme of the story, which was enormously popular when it first appeared. Today Wells’s reputation rests almost entirely upon his science fiction novels, which include The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898), all of which are acknowledged classics of the science fiction genre and continue to be widely read and adapted into other media. The Door in the Wall is considered by both readers and critics to be Wells’s finest short

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