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Title
The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll
Author
Herbert George Wells
Illustrator
James Ayton Symington
Year
1913
Publisher
Macmillan & Co.
Location
New York
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djvu
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CONTENTS
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The Principal Character in the Story
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The Riding Forth of Mr. Hoopdriver
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17
The Shameful Episode of the Young Lady in Grey
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On the Road to Ripley
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40
How Mr. Hoopdriver was haunted
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59
The Imagingings of Mr. Hoopdriver's Heart
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69
Omissions
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The Dreams of Mr. Hoopdriver
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How Mr. Hoopdriver went to Haslemere
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How Mr. Hoopdriver reached Midhurst
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An Interlude
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99
Of the Artificial in Man, and of the Zeitgeist
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105
The Encounter at Midnight
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The Pursuit
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127
At Bognor
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136
The Moonlight Ride
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157
The Surbiton Interlude
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167
The Awakening of Mr. Hoopdriver
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178
The Departure from Chichester
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185
The Unexpected Anecdote of the Lion
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197
The Rescue Expedition
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207
Mr. Hoopdriver, Knight Errant
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231
The Abasement of Mr. Hoopdriver
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In the New Forest
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At the Rufus Stone
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297
The Envoy
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317