Riots & uprisings (1575 pages found in this category)


The Lost Inheritance

Short story by H. G. Wells first published in 1896, about the lost will left by a rich uncle.

The Love Potion

Oil painting by the English artist Evelyn de Morgan, created in 1903.

The Magic Circle

Oil painting by John William Waterhouse, one of his earliest depictions of a classical sorceress.

The Magic Shop

Short story by H. G. Wells first published in 1903, about a young boy and his father's visit to a shop selling disturbingly realistic magical illusions.

The Man in the Moone

Book by the English divine and Church of England bishop Francis Godwin (1562–1633), describing a "voyage of utopian discovery".

The Man of the Year Million

Satirical essay by H. G. Wells first published in 1893, about the evolution of human beings into a form resembling a human foetus.

The Man Who Could Work Miracles

Short story by H. G. Wells about a man who is granted the power to do anything merely by willing it to happen.

The Man with a Nose

Short story by H. G. Wells first published in 1894, about a man's reflections on his unsightly nose.

The Mezzotint

Horror story by M. R. James, first published in 1904, about an engraving that changes every time it is looked at.

The Misses Williams-Wynn

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