Name: The Rajah’s Treasure
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Author: H. G. Wells

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FL-0429E.V.

WELLS, H. G.

The Rajah’s Treasure

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Rumour spreads through a Himalayan kingdom that its Rajah is hoarding a fortune in gems, locked away in an uncrackable English safe — and by the time anyone actually gets…

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H. G. Wells The Rajah’s Treasure Overview An old Himalayan Rajah starts hoarding something in a famous, uncrackable English safe, and the rumour of his treasure — rubies, everyone assumes, mountains of them — eats its way through his court, his heir, his soldiers, and eventually a British Deputy Commissioner, until the safe is finally hauled open in front of a packed Hall of Audience. What’s inside is the whole joke, and it’s a good one: Wells builds an elaborate, escalating colonial melodrama — murder, coup, counter-coup, imperial annexation —…

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Accession:FL-0429

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Language:en

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