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The Sea Lady

Author
H. G. Wells
Read by
James Harrington
Language
English
Length
3 hours 59 minutes
ISBN
9781802560350
Published
26 August 2024
Imprint
Fantastica
  • mermaid
  • fantasy
  • romance
  • English society
  • transformation
  • societal satire
  • folklore
  • human customs
  • enchantment
  • identity

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Description

A mermaid walks into English society and unsettles desire, identity, and polite custom with her otherworldly pull. Wells's fantasy satire of the mystical brushing against the mundane. Spoken as when folklore sits down to dinner and will not leave quietly.

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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