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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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Description

Lionel Wallace, a successful but unhappy politician who reminisces about a magical door he discovered in a wall as a child. This door led him to an enchanted garden, a place of wondrous beauty and joy, which he has since longed to find again. As he navigates his disillusioned adult life, Wallace is haunted by the memory of this garden and the fulfillment it represents. This tale beautifully explores the universal themes of lost innocence, the yearning for a simpler, happier existence, and the conflict between duty and personal desire.

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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