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The Wheels Of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll

The Wheels Of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll

Wells, H. G.

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HumorFiction AnthologiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1539583953
ISBN13: 9781539583950
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Oct 18 2016
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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