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The Man Who Could Work Miracles is H.G. Wells's screenplay based on his own short story, adapted for the 1936 film. Find it here with publication details.
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1 The Man Who Could Work Miracles 1898 H.G. Wells Buy

The Man Who Could Work Miracles began as a short story published in 1898, one of H.G. Wells’s many tales that mixed comic premises with serious ideas. The story follows an unremarkable man who is granted unlimited power and proceeds to make a mess of things. Wells returned to the material decades later when Alexander Korda hired him to write the screenplay for a 1936 film adaptation.

Wells took an active role in the production, as he did with the earlier Things to Come (1936). The screenplay expands on the original story, giving Fotheringay more opportunities to test his abilities and adding a stronger satirical edge about how power corrupts even the most well-meaning people. The film is one of the few cases where a major literary figure wrote the screenplay himself rather than handing it off to a studio writer.

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There are one books in the Screenplays series, published in 1898.

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The first book in the Screenplays series is The Man Who Could Work Miracles, published in 1898.

What is The Man Who Could Work Miracles about?

Based on Wells’s 1898 short story of the same name, The Man Who Could Work Miracles follows George McWhirter Fotheringay, an ordinary man who suddenly discovers he can make anything happen simply by willing it. The screenplay was written by Wells himself for the 1936 film directed by Lothar Mendes.

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