A put-upon draper's assistant sets off on a cycling holiday and falls in with a young woman fleeing an unwanted engagement, in Wells's comic idyll of Bank Holiday England on two wheels.
Books mentioned in The Wheels of Chance (4)
Stephen Langton by Martin Farquhar Tupper: “Guildford is an altogether charming old town, famous, so he learnt from a Guide Book, as the scene of Master Tupper's great historical novel of Stephen Langton,”
The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: “What made me think of South Africa was that novel of Olive Schreiner's, you know--'The Story of an African Farm.' Gregory Rose is so like you.”
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Miss Mergle had told her at parting to live fearlessly and truly, and had further given her a volume of Emerson's Essays and Motley's "Dutch Republic," to help her through the rapids of adolescence.”
The Rise of the Dutch Republic by John Lothrop Motley: “Miss Mergle had told her at parting to live fearlessly and truly, and had further given her a volume of Emerson's Essays and Motley's "Dutch Republic," to help her through the rapids of adolescence.”
Books that mention The Wheels of Chance (1)
Burning Daylight by Jack London: “Another time it was a book of Wells', The Wheels of Change. "What's it all about?" Daylight asked.”