Cover of The Purple Pileus by H. G. Wells Audiobook The Purple Pileus
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The Purple Pileus

Author
H. G. Wells
Read by
James Harrington
Language
English
Length
25 minutes
ISBN
9781802562163
Published
28 December 2024
Imprint
Fantastica
  • Science fiction
  • sci fi
  • h.g. wells
  • philosophy
  • adventure
  • action
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • time travel
  • future

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Description

Disheartened shopkeeper Mr Coombes, trapped in domestic discontent, eats a strange purple mushroom and wakes into absurd audacity that overturns his timid life. Humour and surreal escape open a door ordinary marriage had closed. Spoken as when the purple pileus still asks what courage a meek man can find once the fungus has already rewritten his nerve.

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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