The Cone is a short story by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895 in Unicorn. It was intended to be "the opening chapter of a sensational novel set in the Five Towns", later abandoned. The story is set at an ironworks in Stoke-on-Trent, in Staffordshire. An artist is there to depict the industrial landscape; the manager of the ironworks discovers his affair with his wife, and takes him on a tour of the factory, where there are dangerous features.
The Theory of the Perpetual Discomfort of Humanity (Unabridged)
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The Red Room (Unabridged)
H. G. Wells
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The New Accelerator (Unabridged)
H. G. Wells
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The Poet and the Emporium (Unabridged)
H. G. Wells
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The Pleasure of Quarreling (Unabridged)
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Of Conversation and the Anatomy of Fashion (Unabridged)
H. G. Wells
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The Mode in Monuments : Stray Thoughts in Highgate Cemetery (Unabridged)
H. G. Wells
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The Language of Flowers (Unabridged)
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Bagarrow (Unabridged)
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The Crystal Egg (Unabridged)
H. G. Wells
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About Sir Thomas More (Unabridged)
H. G. Wells
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The Island of Doctor Moreau (Unabridged)
H. G. Wells
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