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The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll

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

THE WHEELS OF CHANCE


A BICYCLING IDYLL


BY


H. G. WELLS
Author of "The Time Machine," "The Wonderful Visit," etc.


WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY J. AYTON SYMINGTON




New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.
1913

All rights reserved

The wheels of chance frontispiece
The wheels of chance frontispiece
Frontispiece.

Copyright, 1896,

By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.


Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1896. Reprinted
September, 1897; May, 1906; March, 1913.
Special edition, in paper covers, June, 1905.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cashing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

To

MY DEAR MOTHER

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BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

THE FOOD OF THE GODS, AND HOW IT CAME TO EARTH.
TWELVE STORIES AND A DREAM.
THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON.
THE INVISIBLE MAN.
LOVE AND MR. LEWISHAM.
ANTICIPATIONS.
MANKIND IN THE MAKING.
A MODERN UTOPIA.
KIPPS: THE STORY OF A SIMPLE SOUL.


This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in 1913, before the cutoff of January 1, 1929.


The longest-living author of this work died in 1946, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 77 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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