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The Story of The Late Mr. Elvesham

Author
H. G. Wells
Read by
James Harrington
Language
English
Length
38 minutes
ISBN
9781802561944
Published
6 December 2024
Imprint
Fantastica
  • Science fiction
  • sci fi
  • h.g. wells
  • philosophy
  • adventure
  • action
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • time travel
  • future

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Student Eden accepts old Mr Elvesham’s strange offer and wakes trapped in the dying man’s body, while his own youth is stolen and return seems impossible. Body, identity, and terror switch places in one cold bargain. Spoken as when the late Mr Elvesham still asks what a young mind can keep when the flesh it wears is already worn out.

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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