The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll

The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll  (1895)  by H. G. Wells

information about this edition.  The Wheels of Chance is a novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895. This novel was 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 (see History of the bicycle).— Excerpted from The Wheels of Chance on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll

By H.G. Wells.

Contents

• The Principal Character in the Story
• The Riding Forth of Mr. Hoopdriver
• The Shameful Episode of the Young Lady in Grey
• On the Road to Ripley
• How Mr. Hoopdriver was Haunted
• The Imaginings of Mr. Hoopdriver's Heart
• Omissions
• The Dreams of Mr. Hoopdriver
• How Mr. Hoopdriver Went to Haslemere
• How Mr. Hoopdriver Reached Midhurst
• An Interlude
• Of the Artificial in Man, and of the Zeitgeist
• The Encounter at Midhurst
• The Pursuit
• At Bognor
• The Moonlight Ride
• The Surbiton Interlude
• The Awakening of Mr Hoopdriver
• The Departure from Chichester
• The Unexpected Anecdote of the Lion
• The Rescue Expedition
• Mr. Hoopdriver, Knight-Errant
• The Abasement of Mr. Hoopdriver
• In the New Forest
• At the Rufus Stone
• The Envoy

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