Title: The Beautiful Suit

Title: The Beautiful Suit Title Record # 68481
Author: H. G. Wells
Date: 1909-04-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: short story
Webpages: librivox.org
Language: English

Note: First published: Colliers Apr, 1909 as "A Moonlight Fable"

Synopsis: A young boy gets a very fine handcrafted suit as a gift from his mother, but is allowed to wear it only on very few occasions. One night he decides to wear it and goes out for a stroll ...

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Translations

Year	Language	Title
1930^ⓘTranslated by Lena Neumann	German	Der schöne Anzug
1930^ⓘTranslated by Lena Neumann	German	Der schöne Anzug [as by Herbert George Wells]
1969^ⓘTranslated by Ursula Spinner	German	Der schöne Anzug

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
The Country of the Blind and Other Stories	1911-00-00	H. G. Wells	Thomas Nelson & Sons			xii+ 574	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Country of the Blind and Other Stories	1913-00-00	H. G. Wells	Thomas Nelson & Sons		-/7	574	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Country of the Blind	1923-00-00	H. G. Wells	Haldeman-Julius	161	$0.10	62	ph^?Pamphlet. Used for short (in page count), unbound, staple-bound, or otherwise lightly bound publications.	coll
Tales of Wonder	1923-00-00	H. G. Wells	W. Collins Sons			249	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
In the Days of the Comet and Seventeen Short Stories	1925-00-00	H. G. Wells	T. Fisher Unwin (The Works of H. G. Wells #10)			xiv+ 652	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni
In the Days of the Comet and Seventeen Short Stories	1925-00-00	H. G. Wells	Charles Scribner's Sons (The Works of H. G. Wells #10)			xiv+ 652	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni
The Country of the Blind and Other Stories	1926-00-00	H. G. Wells	Tauchnitz (Tauchnitz Collection of British and American Authors #4713)	4713		267	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Short Stories of H. G. Wells	1927-00-00	H. G. Wells	Ernest Benn		7/6	1148	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Short Stories of H. G. Wells	1927-00-00	H. G. Wells	Ernest Benn			1148	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Short Stories of H. G. Wells	1927-10-00	H. G. Wells	Ernest Benn			1148	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Short Stories of H. G. Wells	1929-00-00	H. G. Wells	Doubleday, Doran		$5.00	vi+ 1015	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Famous Short Stories of H. G. Wells	1929-00-00	H. G. Wells	The Literary Guild				unknown^?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.	coll
Der Apfel vom Baum der Erkenntnis	1930-00-00	Herbert George Wells	Zsolnay (Herbert George Wells: Gesammelte Werke in Einzelausgaben)		RM 6.00	371	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	George C. Beresford
The Famous Short Stories of H. G. Wells	1937-00-00	H. G. Wells	Doubleday, Doran			vi+ 1015	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Favorite Short Stories of H. G. Wells	1937-00-00	H. G. Wells	Doubleday, Doran			437	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Short Stories: First Series	1940-09-00	H. G. Wells	Thomas Nelson & Sons (Teaching of English #221)	221		218	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Short Stories of H. G. Wells	1949-00-00	H. G. Wells	Ernest Benn		17/6	1038	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Short Stories of H. G. Wells	1957-00-00	H. G. Wells	Ernest Benn		13/6	1148	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Magazine of Horror, September 1964	1964-09-00	ed. Robert A. W. Lowndes	Health Knowledge, Inc.		$0.50	132	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag
The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells	1965-00-00	H. G. Wells	Ernest Benn			1038	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Cone	1965-00-00	H. G. Wells	Fontana	1125	3/6	160	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll
Der gestohlene Bazillus und acht andere Erzählungen	1969-00-00	H. G. Wells	Diogenes			264	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Tomi Ungerer
The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells	1974-00-00	H. G. Wells	Ernest Benn	0-510-40301-8	$12.50	vi+ 1038	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Der Apfel vom Baum der Erkenntnis	1980-09-00	H. G. Wells	Zsolnay (H. G. Wells Edition #6)	3-552-03240-1	DM 24.00	270	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Doris Byer
Der Apfel vom Baum der Erkenntnis	1982-10-00	H. G. Wells	Ullstein (Ullstein Bücher #20256)	3-548-20256-X	DM 7.80	270	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Theodor Bayer-Eynck
The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells	1987-00-00	H. G. Wells	St. Martin's Press	0-312-15855-6	$19.95	vi+ 1038	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Country of the Blind and Other Stories	2004-04-02	H. G. Wells	Project Gutenberg	11870			ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
The Man Who Could Work Miracles	2006-12-01	H. G. Wells	Tartarus Press	978-1-905784-00-4	£35.00	xiv+ 363	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
A Dream of Armageddon: The Complete Supernatural Tales	2009-00-00	H. G. Wells	Fall River Press	978-1-4351-1583-5	$7.98	xvi+ 367	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Kazuhiko Nakamura
A Dream of Armageddon	2009-01-00	H. G. Wells	Cybraria		$3.26		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 003	2009-06-15	ed. LibriVox	LibriVox				digital audio download^?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.	anth
A Dream of Armageddon	2010-05-00	H. G. Wells	Kessinger	978-1-161-41702-9	$30.95		hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Complete Short Story Omnibus	2011-04-00	H. G. Wells	Gollancz	978-0-575-09524-3	£25.00	959	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Country of the Blind and Other Stories	2013-01-17	H. G. Wells	CreateSpace	978-1-4819-9061-5	$9.99	310	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
The Country of the Blind and Other Stories	2013-07-29	H. G. Wells	CreateSpace	978-1-4912-2057-3	$15.20	576	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
The Crystal Egg and Other Stories	2017-01-09	H. G. Wells	Wordsworth Editions (Wordsworth Classics)	978-1-84022-739-0	£1.99	xxx+ 450	unknown^?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.	coll
The Short Stories of H. G. Wells	date unknown	H. G. Wells	Odhams Press			375	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
A Dream of Armageddon	date unknown	H. G. Wells	Kessinger	978-1-4191-0103-8	$21.95		tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
Tales of Wonder	date unknown	H. G. Wells	Collins / BCE			253	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll

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