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A Moonlight Fable

Author
H. G. Wells
Read by
James Harrington
Language
English
Length
9 minutes
ISBN
9781802561814
Published
2 December 2024
Imprint
Fantastica
  • moonlight adventure
  • silver-white suit
  • whimsical journey
  • innocence
  • rebellion
  • beauty and loss
  • fleeting nature
  • transcendence
  • youthful desire
  • poignancy

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A boy saves his silver-white suit for a special day, then wears it under the moon and finds wonder that turns costly. Brief fable of beauty, disobedience, and youth's short bright hour. Spoken as Wells when moonlight makes the forbidden cloth irresistible.

Author

H. G. Wells (1866–1946) was born in Bromley, trained in biology under Huxley, and turned that laboratory habit into fiction. The Time Machine sent a Victorian into deep time; The War of the Worlds brought the sky down on the Home Counties. He wrote as if the future were a social problem with monsters attached. The novels argue while they entertain. A draper's son who made scientific romance a public language.

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