The Wheels Of Chance - H G Wells - Books - - 9798570820685 - November 26, 2020
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H G Wells
The Wheels Of Chance

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The hero of The Wheels of Chance, Mr. Hoopdriver, is a frustrated "draper's assistant" in Putney, a badly paid, grinding position (and one which Wells briefly held); and yet he owns a bicycle and is setting out on a bicycling tour of "the Southern Coast" on his annual ten days' holiday. Hoopdriver survives his frustration by escaping in his imagination into a world of fantasy. He is not a skilled rider of his forty-three-pound bicycle, and his awkwardness reflects both Wells's own uncertainties in negotiating the English class system and his critical view of that society. Nonetheless, Hoopdriver is treated sympathetically: "But if you see how a mere counter-jumper, a cad on castors, and a fool to boot, may come to feel the little insufficiencies of life, and if he has to any extent won your sympathies, my end is attained."

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released November 26, 2020
ISBN13 9798570820685
Pages 336
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 19 mm   ·   494 g
Language English  

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