The Wheels Of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll - Hardcover

Wells, H G

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9780755104277: The Wheels Of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll

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ISBN 10: 0755104277 ISBN 13: 9780755104277

Publisher: House of Stratus, 2001

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Mr Hoopdriver is an expert in his field - a perfect gentleman with exemplary manners and more than a little flair behind the drapers' counter. Yet Mr Hoopdriver is growing tired of measuring out yards of gingham and selling endless reels of threads various. He yearns for new discoveries and new adventures, and above all a change of scenery. Determined to leave the humdrum behind him, he mounts his bicycle and heads off for places new. AUTHBIO: Known as the 'Father of Science Fiction', H G Wells was responsible for an entirely new genre of writing. It was his bold, daring and hugely innovative books that first introduced readers to the concepts of time travel, invisibility, genetic experimentation and interstellar invasion - ideas that have gone on to inspire future generations and given rise to the entire science fiction industry. Disturbingly accurate in his prophetic writing, H G Wells was also the author of a number of key sociological and historical works.

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Review:

"The Wheels of Chance is both an early cycling classic and a picture of an era. In this long-overdue scholarly edition, Jeremy Withers provides an illuminating introduction to Wells's lively comedy." - Professor Patrick Parrinder, President, H. G. Wells Society "Wellss engaging comic novel becomes even more enjoyable in this welcome new edition of The Wheels of Chance. Jeremy Withers scholarly introduction and notes set the novel thoughtfully into the context of the authors life and times, with particular reference to the bicycle boom of the 1890s, presenting readers with a host of insights that are bound to enhance appreciation of the book." -Michael Sherborne, author of the biography H. G. Wells: Another Kind of Life

About the Author:

Born Herbert George Wells in Kent in 1866, H. G. Wells was an outspoken socialist and pacifist, whose works caused some controversy. He is more widely known as a science fiction writer for the novels that he published between 1895 and 1901: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, When the Sleeper Wakes and The First Men in the Moon. All, except for When the Sleeper Wakes, have been made into films.

Along with Jules Verne, H. G. Wells is also known as 'the Father of Science Fiction'.

His later novels were more realistic and he wrote many genres, including contemporary novels, history and social commentary.

H. G. Wells died in 1946.

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