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H. G. Wells

The Magic Shop — H. G. Wells

The Magic Shop — H. G. Wells

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I had seen the Magic Shop from afar several times; I had passed it once or twice, a shop window of alluring little objects, magic balls, magic hens, wonderful cones, ventriloquist dolls, the material of the basket trick, packs of cards that looked all right, and all that sort of thing.

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On an ordinary walk along Regent Street, young Gip leads his father into a shop that seems to sell genuine magic. The demonstrations begin as delightful tricks, but the rooms shift, the shopkeeper grows stranger, and the boundary between wonder and danger quietly disappears. H. G. Wells captures a child’s enchantment—and a parent’s mounting unease—in one of his most imaginative short stories.

This Nile Book Store edition presents the story as a clean standalone EPUB, carefully extracted from the public-domain collection Twelve Stories and a Dream, together with Jennifer Fournier’s complete LibriVox reading.

  • Clean, reflowable standalone EPUB
  • Complete audiobook — approximately 25 minutes
  • Centered playable audio preview
  • Original, full-color Nile Book Store cover
  • Carefully prepared navigation and metadata

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Edition details

  • Author: H. G. Wells
  • First published: 1903
  • Language: English
  • Formats: EPUB and MP3 audiobook
  • Narrator: Jennifer Fournier
  • Genre: Fantasy, speculative fiction, short story
  • Source: Project Gutenberg eBook #1743
  • Illustrations: No interior illustrations in the source edition

Public-domain text and recording in the United States. This Nile Book Store edition adds original cover design, standalone formatting, metadata, and presentation.

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