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The Story of The Late Mr. Elvesham

Author
H. G. Wells
Series
World Classics
Language
English
Length
26 pages
ISBN
9781787242067
Published
5 March 2017
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. Wells’s uncanny tale of consciousness stolen and a life locked in the wrong skin. The bargain traded youth for age, and only one of them walks free.

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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