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Miss Winchelsea's Heart

Author
H. G. Wells
Read by
Raphael Croft
Language
English
Length
36 minutes
ISBN
9781802566215
Published
16 May 2025
Imprint
Fantastica
  • Science fiction
  • sci fi
  • h.g. wells
  • philosophy
  • adventure
  • action
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • time travel
  • future

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Description

Miss Winchelsea takes a cheap Rome tour with Fanny and Helen, Baedeker discreetly covered, and falls for a cultivated young man in the carriage — until a friend calls him Snooks on the steps. Wells’s short comedy of refinement turns snobbery into heartbreak in one syllable: she refuses him; Fanny later writes of Senoks, then Sevenoaks, and takes the marriage that should have been hers. Taste as fate; the holiday that taught the wrong lesson.

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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