Download or read book The Man Who Could Work Miracles Illustrated written by H G Wells and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Man Who Could Work Miracles is a British fantasy-comedy short story by H. G. Wells first published in 1898 in The Illustrated London News. It carried the subtitle "A Pantoum in Prose.In an English public house, George McWhirter Fotheringay vigorously asserts the impossibility of miracles during an argument. By way of demonstration, Fotheringay commands an oil lamp to flame upside down and it does so, to his own astonishment. His acquaintances think it a trick and quickly dismiss it.