{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5dbe","title":"The Man Who Could Work Miracles","publish_year":1898,"publish_source":"The Illustrated London News","publish_edition":"Summer Number","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/sim_illustrated-london-news_1898-06-25_112_3088/page/n43/mode/2up","author":"H. G. Wells","code":"the-man-who-could-work-miracles","words":6445,"image":"candle.jpg","image_alt":"A lit candle.","genres":["fantasy","quirky"],"blurb":"He pointed resolutely to his candle and collected his mind, though he felt he did a foolish thing. “Be raised up,” he said. But in a second that feeling vanished. The candle was raised, hung in the air one giddy moment, and as Mr. Fotheringay gasped, fell with a smash on his toilet-table, leaving him in darkness save for the expiring glow of its wick.","description":"The cynical and argumentative George McWhirter Fotheringay, when in the midst of arguing that miracles are impossible, accidentally performs one.","rating":4,"unique_cover":"Drawing of men in a pub astonished by a man pointing at a glowing lightbulb on the ceiling.","cover_source":true,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}