TY - BOOK AU - Wells,H.G. TI - The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll AV - PR PY - 1998/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - England -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction KW - Cycling -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wheels_of_Chance; Release date is 1998-04-01; Dianne Bean; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll" by H. G. Wells is a comic novel written during the height of the 1890s cycling craze. Mr. Hoopdriver, a poorly paid draper's assistant, escapes his grinding routine for a ten-day bicycling holiday along England's southern coast. His awkward adventure takes an unexpected turn when he encounters a mysterious young woman in bloomers cycling alone, leading to a journey involving deception, danger, and dreams of a better life. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1264 ER -