# 30 Strange Stories

Author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59774

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=30+Strange+Stories+Wells&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The buying of orchids always has in it a certain speculative flavour. You have before you the brown shrivelled lump of tissue, and for the rest you must trust your judgment, or the auctioneer, or your good-luck, as your taste may incline. The plant may be moribund or dead, or it may be just a respectable purchase, fair value for your money, or perhaps—for the thing has happened again and again—there slowly unfolds before the delighted eyes of the happy purchaser, day after day, some new variety, some novel richness, a strange twist of the labellum, or some subtler colouration or unexpected mimicry. Pride, beauty, and profit blossom together on one delicate green spike, and, it may be, eve...

## Chapters

- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/30-strange-stories-59774/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/30-strange-stories-59774/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Part 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/30-strange-stories-59774/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Part 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/30-strange-stories-59774/chapters/24/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/30-strange-stories-59774/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/30-strange-stories-59774/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/30-strange-stories-59774/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/30-strange-stories-59774/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/30-strange-stories-59774/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/30-strange-stories-59774/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/30-strange-stories-59774/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/30-strange-stories-59774/chapters/25/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/30-strange-stories-59774/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/30-strange-stories-59774/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Part 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/30-strange-stories-59774/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Part 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/30-strange-stories-59774/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Part 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/30-strange-stories-59774/chapters/27/index.md)
- [Part 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/30-strange-stories-59774/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/30-strange-stories-59774/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/30-strange-stories-59774/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/30-strange-stories-59774/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/30-strange-stories-59774/chapters/26/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/30-strange-stories-59774/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/30-strange-stories-59774/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/30-strange-stories-59774/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/30-strange-stories-59774/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/30-strange-stories-59774/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/30-strange-stories-59774/chapters/28/index.md)