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The Cone

Author
H. G. Wells
Read by
James Harrington
Language
English
Length
25 minutes
ISBN
9781802561807
Published
2 December 2024
Imprint
Fantastica
  • revenge
  • industrial setting
  • affair
  • betrayal
  • smelting furnace
  • jealousy
  • tension
  • tragic climax
  • human emotions
  • infernal landscape

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Ironworks manager Horrocks walks his wife’s lover Raut through fire and slag toward the furnace cone, revenge glowing hotter than the metal. Industrial dread. Spoken as Wells when jealousy finds a machine to finish the job.

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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