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- Autorius: H G Wells
- Leidėjas: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Metai: 2016
- Puslapiai: 262
- ISBN-10: 1539583953
- ISBN-13: 9781539583950
- Formatas: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.4 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Kalba: Anglų
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The hero of The Wheels of Chance, Mr. Hoopdriver, is a frustrated "draper's assistant"[2] in Putney, a badly paid, grinding position (and one which Wells briefly held); and yet he owns a bicycle and is setting out on a bicycling tour of "the Southern Coast" on his annual ten days' holiday. Hoopdriver survives his frustration by escaping in his imagination into a world of fantasy. He is not a skilled rider of his forty-three-pound bicycle, and his awkwardness reflects both Wells's own uncertainties in negotiating the English class system and his critical view of that society. Nonetheless, Hoopdriver is treated sympathetically: "But if you see how a mere counter-jumper, a cad on castors, and a fool to boot, may come to feel the little insufficiencies of life, and if he has to any extent won your sympathies, my end is attained".
- Autorius: H G Wells
- Leidėjas: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Metai: 2016
- Puslapiai: 262
- ISBN-10: 1539583953
- ISBN-13: 9781539583950
- Formatas: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.4 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Kalba: Anglų
The hero of The Wheels of Chance, Mr. Hoopdriver, is a frustrated "draper's assistant"[2] in Putney, a badly paid, grinding position (and one which Wells briefly held); and yet he owns a bicycle and is setting out on a bicycling tour of "the Southern Coast" on his annual ten days' holiday. Hoopdriver survives his frustration by escaping in his imagination into a world of fantasy. He is not a skilled rider of his forty-three-pound bicycle, and his awkwardness reflects both Wells's own uncertainties in negotiating the English class system and his critical view of that society. Nonetheless, Hoopdriver is treated sympathetically: "But if you see how a mere counter-jumper, a cad on castors, and a fool to boot, may come to feel the little insufficiencies of life, and if he has to any extent won your sympathies, my end is attained".
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