The Door in the Wall, and other stories
by H. G. Wells
1906
ISBN/ASIN: 1600964893
Number of pages: 345
Description:
The Door in the Wall is the story of a promising public figure used up by his job and obsessed by a vision of an enchanted garden he had known as a child. It is a tale all of us know, the attempt to recover a period when our lives were simpler and complications lay far in the future.
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