The Wheels Of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll - 9781539583950

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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."
  • | Author: H. G. Wells
  • | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
  • | Publication Date: Oct 18, 2016
  • | Number of Pages: 262 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Paperback
  • | ISBN-10: 1539583953
  • | ISBN-13: 9781539583950
Author:
H. G. Wells
Publisher:
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication Date:
Oct 18, 2016
Number of pages:
262 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1539583953
ISBN-13:
9781539583950