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H.G. Wells wrote both fiction and non-fiction. He worked in many
genres including novels, history, and social commentaries. Wells is
famous for his prophetic concepts. Here he uses an airplane in
warfare. In this world version Wells has governments allied with
other governments, the US divided over federal and states rights to
a universal defensive militia. Mistaken identity, aerial flights
and adventure fill this novel.
H.G.Wells wrote both fiction and non-fiction. He worked in many
genres including novels, history, and social commentaries. Wells
was a leading socialist. Mr. Polly is an unassuming young man who
works in a drapery shop and loves to read about knights. After the
death of his father and loosing his job he marries Miriam who he
does not love. They set up a shop. Polly finds himself in comic
arguments and slapstick calamities wherever he goes. This is a
delightful and amusing read.
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What Is Coming? (Paperback)
G. Wells H. G. Wells, H. G. Wells; Edited by 1stworld Library
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R357
Discovery Miles 3 570
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Prophecy may vary between being an intellectual amusement and a
serious occupation; serious not only in its intentions, but in its
consequences. For it is the lot of prophets who frighten or
disappoint to be stoned. But for some of us moderns, who have be
The world mends. In my younger days people believed in mahogany;
some of my readers will remember it-a heavy, shining substance,
having a singularly close resemblance to raw liver, exceedingly
heavy to move, and esteemed on one or other count the noblest
In truth the mastery of flying was the work of thousands of
men-this man a suggestion and that an experiment, until at last
only one vigorous intellectual effort was needed to finish the
work. But the inexorable injustice of the popular mind has decided
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