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by: H. G. Wells
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781558215641
ISBN: 1558215646
Label: Breakaway Books
Manufacturer: Breakaway Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 283
Publication Date: January 01, 1999
Publisher: Breakaway Books
Sales Rank: 1351315
Studio: Breakaway Books
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
If you (presuming you are of the sex that does such things)-if you had gone into the Drapery Emporium-which is really only magnificent for shop-of Messrs. Antrobus & Co.-a perfectly fictitious 'Co. ' by the bye-of Putney on the 14th of August 1895 had turned to the right-hand side where the blocks of white linen and piles of blankets rise up to the rail from which the pink and blue prints depend you might have been served by the central figure of this story that is now beginning. (Excerpt)
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Great story for cyclists - ancient and modern
H.G.Wells was himself a cyclist. This comes through well in his Wheels of Chance, his first novel published in 1896. The plot has appeal, but the greater appeal of this book is its social history of cycling in Britain.
In 2006, as a cyclist and author, I rode from Lands End to John o'Groats - the length of Britain. I frequently thought what a wonderful country Britain would have been pre all those dreadful M roads. H.G. Wells tells, superbly, what it what it was like.
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Rating:  - More Than a Science Fiction Writer
Posterity has not been kind to H.G. Wells. It's true that his name is still one of the most easily recognizable in the literary world, but since his death in 1946 his contributions to mainstream writing, feminism, and politics (he wrote the United Nations charter) have been all but forgotten--instead he has simply become known as a "science fiction writer," a reputation based on a handful of novels written early in his career. Books like "The Time Machine" and "The War of the Worlds" are indeed marvelous, ... Read More
Rating:  - A pleasant tale of 19th Century British society
This early H.G. Wells' tale is about a 20-something year old man who has a job as a draper's assistant, a job which he is probably too old for. Loaded with poor self esteem and a second class status, poor Mr. Hoopdriver takes a ten day holiday. On this holiday he falls for a young socialite named Jessie who is rebelling against her stepmother and society. The tale has many interesting insights into the "proper" behavior of a British socialite. For example, late in the story one of Wells' characters ... Read More
Rating: - A comic masterpiece
Follow Mr. Hoopdriver as he goes on a bicycling excursion through southern England in the 1890's. The language is difficult at times, but the laughs are huge. An interesting window into Victorian morality and social status in these early days of cycling.
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