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Audiobook · Fantastica

The Door in the Wall

Author
H. G. Wells
Read by
Sebastian Blackwood
Language
English
Length
37 minutes
ISBN
9781787369863
Published
30 April 2024
Imprint
Fantastica
  • enchanted garden
  • lost innocence
  • yearning
  • personal desire
  • disillusionment
  • magical discovery
  • childhood memory
  • inner fulfillment
  • duty versus desire
  • existential longing

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Successful politician Lionel Wallace is haunted by a green door he found as a child, leading to an enchanted garden of beauty he can never quite reclaim. Wells?s tale of lost innocence, duty, and the yearning for a simpler joy. Spoken as when the next appointment keeps stealing the path back to wonder.

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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