Beschrijving

The Wheels of Chance is H. G. Wells’s buoyant comic novel of the 1890s bicycle craze, following Mr. Hoopdriver, a weary draper’s assistant, as his holiday on wheels becomes an adventure in self-fashioning, romance, and social embarrassment. Written in a brisk, observant, and gently satirical style, the book belongs to the fin-de-siècle tradition of realist comedy while engaging modern themes: mobility, leisure, class aspiration, and the disruptive figure of the independent \