The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll
H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Subjects: PR, Cycling -- Fiction, England -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction, I
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Subjects: PR, Cycling -- Fiction, England -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction, I
Downloads: 275
The Wheels of Chance is a comic novel by H.G. Wells, written at the peak of what has been called the Golden Age of the bicycle, the years of 1890-1905, when practical, comfortable bicycles first became widely and cheaply available, and before the rise of the automobile. The advent of the bicycle stirred sudden and profound changes in the social life of England. It was unprecedented that a person of modest means could travel substantial distances, quickly, cheaply and without being limited to railway schedules ...
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