The Man Who Could Work Miracles
The Man Who Could Work Miracles is a British fantasy-comedy short story by H. G. Wells. It carried the subtitle A Pantoum in Prose.
Broadcast history in South Africa
November 6, 1945: Adapted for radio by Lawrence Gillian and produced by Rene Ahrenson. Broadcast on SABC radio station Cape Town "A" (English)
Translations and adaptations
The Man Who Could Work Miracles was first published in 1898 in The Illustrated London News. The story is an early example of contemporary fantasy (not yet recognized, at the time, as a specific subgenre). In common with later works falling within this definition, the story places a major fantasy premise (a wizard with enormous, virtually unlimited magic power) not in an exotic semi-medieval setting but in the drab routine daily life of suburban London, very familiar to Wells himself.
Sources
Radio Week 2nd November, 1945, page 19.
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