By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘A Deal in Ostriches’ is a short tale by H. G. Wells (1866-1946), originally published on 20 December 1894 in the Pall Mall Gazette before being republished in Wells’s first short-story collection, The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents, a year later. ‘A Deal in Ostriches’ takes place on board ... Read more
