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One hot steamy night in London, on a bridge looking over the Thames, a gentleman meets what appears to be a vagabond. The drifter, though looking ragged, has some class about him, and tells a story of being very successful in business. The gentleman is at first amused and then amazed when the vagrant pulls from around his neck a bag of very large diamonds.

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games. THE DIAMOND MAKER: Some business had detained me in Chancery Lane until nine in the evening, and thereafter, having some inkling of a headache, I was disinclined either for entertainment or further work.

"The Diamond Maker" is a short story by H. G. Wells, first published in 1894 in the Pall Mall Budget. It was included in The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents, the first collection of short stories by Wells, published in 1895. In the story, a businessman hears an account from a man who has devoted years attempting to make artificial diamonds, only to end as a desperate outcast.

Volume seven of the Tom Swift series brings our hero, Tom Swift, to Phantom Mountain, somewhere in Colorado, in search of a band of rascals who use the power generated in a flash of lightning to create diamonds. Tom Swift encounters Barcoe Jenks, an eccentric character we met in the previous volume, who enlists Tom's aid to get the secret of making perfect diamonds from the sinister gang of Diamond Makers. Once again our hero, Tom Swift, saves his companions from many a disaster.

"The Diamond Maker" is a short story by H. G. Wells, which was first published in 1894. It is the tale of a businessman reflecting on an account of a man who had devoted years of his life in an attempt to make artificial diamonds, only to end up as an outcast.

Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946) was a prolific English writer, now best remembered for his science fiction novels. 'The Diamond Maker' is the story of a self-taught chemistry enthusiast who is obsessed with developing a process for creating artificial diamonds.

"The Diamond Maker" by H.G. Wells is an excellent example of "Don’t judge a book by its cover", and it’s a bad idea to stereotype individuals. Narrator Glenn Hascall does a superb interpretation of this work

Two short stories by H.G. Wells displaying his gift for creating thought-provoking themes. "The Diamond Maker" is a story about a chance encounter between two men who then must decide whether they can trust each other. "The Door in the Wall" is a fascinating tale about a successful politician who struggles to merge the beauty of his imagined world with the rationality of real life.

Welcome to the Hollywood Strip, an eye-popping street filled with weirdos and whack jobs who spend all day, everyday dressed as the super heroes and characters they adore. The coolest one might be Melinda Waters, the world's most beautiful mermaid. Or possibly Thwakman, with his speedball forearms that stop bullets mid-air. Maybe it's Mighty Muse, with her snake belt full of venom. Or it could be Phil the Purple Blob, who... no... nevermind, it probably isn't Phil. The kid who loves them all is Stuart Bossman, a future documentary film-maker. And everything's just fine, 'til the day he ...