WELLS, H.G.
The Wonderful Visit.
London: J. M. Dent & Sons. Ltd. , 1910.
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The Wayfarer's Library Edition of H.G. Wells' The Wonderful Visit; From the Library of Christopher Priest
The Wayfarer’s Library edition of Wells’ early fantasy novel in which the arrival of a mysterious winged visitor exposes the prejudices and moral limitations of conventional Victorian society. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, pictorial endpapers, frontispiece in color. From the collection of British science fiction author Christopher Priest. Priest’s most famous works include The Inverted World (1974), the interconnected “Dream Archipelago” series, and The Prestige (1995), which was adapted into the 2006 Academy Award nominee film of the same name by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, and Michael Caine. In good condition with wear to the spine extremities. Neat ownership name and inscription to the front free pictorial endpaper.
The Wonderful Visit (1895) by H. G. Wells is an early fantasy novel that blends social satire with speculative imagination. The narrative follows the unexpected arrival of a winged, angel-like being in a small English village after he is mistakenly shot by a local vicar. Rather than being received with wonder or reverence, the visitor is subjected to suspicion, misunderstanding, and cruelty, exposing the limitations and prejudices of late Victorian society. Through this inversion of the traditional “angel visitation” motif, Wells critiques conventional morality, religious orthodoxy, and social conformity, using the outsider’s perspective to illuminate the contradictions of human behavior and the difficulties of reconciling idealism with societal norms.
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