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The War of the Wheels: H. G. Wells and the Bicycle (Sports and Entertainment) by Withers, Jeremy is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is The War of the Wheels: H. G. Wells and the Bicycle (Sports and Entertainment) about?
Amid apocalyptic invasions and time travel, one common machine continually appears in H. G. Wells’s works: the bicycle. From his scientific romances and social comedies, to utopias, futurological speculations, and letters, Wells’s texts abound with bicycles. In The War of the Wheels, Withers examines this mode of transportation as both something that played a significant role in Wells’s personal life and as a literary device for creating elaborate characters and complex themes. Withers traces We
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Withers, Jeremy
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780815654032
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Sports, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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