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The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll
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A comic novel by H. G. Wells following Mr. Hoopdriver, a draper's assistant, on a bicycling holiday through southern England during the 1890s cycling craze. Suitable for readers interested in Victorian social fiction, early cycling culture, and lighter works by Wells.
H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Herbert George Wells was an English writer, prolific in many genres. He wrote more than forty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography, and autobiography. Wells is most known today for his groundbreaking science fiction novels; he has sometimes been called the "father of science fiction", a title that has also been given to Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback.
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