H. G. Wells 
The Plattner Story and Others 

The Plattner Story and Others is a collection of seventeen short stories written by H. G. Wells. ‘The Plattner Story’ (New Review, April 1896)
‘The Argonauts of the Air’,
‘The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham’,
‘In the Abyss’,
‘The Apple’,
‘Under the Knife’,
‘The Sea Raiders’,
‘Pollock and the Porroh Man’,
‘The Red Room’,
‘The Cone’,
‘The Purple Pileus’,
‘The Jilting of Jane’,
‘In the Modern Vein’,
‘A Catastrophe’,
‘The Lost Inheritance’,
‘The Sad Story of a Dramatic Critic’,
‘A Slip Under the Microscope’.