| "The Man Who Could Work Miracles" | |
|---|---|
| Short story by H. G. Wells | |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction |
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"The Man Who Could Work Miracles" is a British fantasy-comedy short story by H. G. Wells first published in 1898 in The Illustrated London News. It carried the subtitle "A Pantoum in Prose".[1]
The story is an early example of contemporary fantasy (not yet recognized, at the time, as a specific subgenre). In common with later works falling within this definition, the story places a major fantasy premise (a wizard with enormous, virtually unlimited magic power) not in an exotic semi-medieval setting but in the drab routine daily life of suburban London, very familiar to Wells himself.
- ^ Maunder, Andrew (22 April 2015). Encyclopedia of the British Short Story. Infobase Learning. ISBN 9781438140704 – via Google Books.