The Wheels Of Chance - H G Wells - Books - Createspace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781539583950 - October 18, 2016
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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"[2] 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 October 18, 2016
ISBN13 9781539583950
Publishers Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages 262
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 14 mm   ·   353 g
Language English  

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