The Wonderful Visit. Contributor(s): Wells, H. G. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1717425542 ISBN-13: 9781717425546 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: April 2018 * Out of Print * |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
Dewey: 823.912 |
Physical Information: 0.19" H x 7.99" W x 10" L (0.43 lbs) 90 pages |
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Publisher Description: The Wonderful Visit is an 1895 novel by H. G. Wells. With an angel-a creature of fantasy unlike a religious angel-as protagonist and taking place in contemporary England, the book could be classified as contemporary fantasy, although the genre was not recognised in Wells's time. The Wonderful Visit also has strong satirical themes, gently mocking customs and institutions of Victorian England as well as idealistic rebellion itself.The Wonderful Visit tells how an angel spends a little more than a week in southern England. He is at first mistaken for a bird because of his dazzling polychromatic plumage, for he is "neither the Angel of religious feeling nor the Angel of popular belief," but rather "the Angel of Italian art." As a result, he is hunted and shot in the wing by an amateur ornithologist, the Rev. K. Hilyer, the vicar of Siddermoton, and then taken in and cared for at the vicarage. |
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