Talk:The Man Who Could Work Miracles (short story)

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Short story?
To my knowlege there is no novel of this name, only a short story. Furthermore, the plot given here is almost verbatem from the plot given for the movie of the same name. I have not seen the movie so I cannot comment on it, but unless someone demonstrates that Wells actually did expand his short story into a novel I am going to do some editing. I will hold off for a few days to see if anyone wants to give a reason not to. J. Passepartout — Preceding unsigned comment added by J. Passepartout (talk • contribs) 7 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Actually, since I have been looking at google and all the links I looked at refered either to the movie or the short story, I am going to edit right now. J. Passepartout — Preceding unsigned comment added by J. Passepartout (talk • contribs) 7 November 2006 (UTC)


 * A great short story, but George Fotheringay was thrown out of a traditional pub in Southern England, not a bar. It is only in english pubs that the English Man occasionly gathers courage to talk about concepts such as ultimate power and its abuse, although more so in the days before slot machines and TVs were installed in them. However, to go deeply into such things gives a feeling of unease and part of the story's humour is that the gods hear what is being said and give the ulimate power to a human being. A.Fan. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.127.225.247 (talk • contribs) 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Public domain?
The article doesn't say. Is the 1898 story in the public domain worldwide and the 1936 film is not? Did the 1936 film, co-written by Wells, extend some sort of extra copyright length to the original story? Is the Wells estate actively litigating infringement claims against users of the original story as a result of the 1936 film? Anyone come across any discussion of this? 5Q5 (talk) 16:01, 10 July 2012 (UTC)