The Wheels of Chance
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The Whees of Chance - A Bicycling Idyll | |
Author | H. G. Wells |
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Illustrator | J. Ayton Symington |
Cover Artist | Jeff Quinn |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre(s) | Comedy |
Publisher | |
Released | 1897 |
Media Type | Print (hardbound) |
Pages | 232 |
The Wheels of Chance is a comic novel by H. G. Wells.
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This novel chronicles a bicycle trip taken by one Mr. Hoopdriver. As you might be able to tell from the title it is not a science fiction story, but rather a comedy. It is also one of a very few novels on bicycling, and is certainly one of the earliest novels on bicycling that is still in print.