H. G. Wells 
Door in the Wall, and Other Stories 

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. Other titles are: "The Star, " "A Dream of Armageddon, " "The Cone, " "A Moonlight Fable, " "The Diamond Maker, " "The Lord of the Dynamos, " and Wells’ durably celebrated story of true freedom and the human spirit "The Country of the Blind." (Goodreads)