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The Wheels of Chance : a Bicycling Idyll. By: H. G. Wells, Illustrated By: J. (James) Ayton Symington (1859-1939)
The Wheels of Chance is an early comic novel by H. G. Wells about an August 1895 cycling holiday, somewhat in the style of Three Men in a Boat. In 1922 it was adapted into a silent film The Wheels of Chance directed by Harold M. Shaw. 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 re...
The Wheels of Chance
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Atalanta
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Peter Simple
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1902 Edition.
The Windsor Magazine
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The Bookseller
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