{"product_id":"the-wheels-of-chance-a-bicycling-idyll-9781539583950","title":"The Wheels Of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): H. G. Wells\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe hero of The Wheels of Chance, Mr. Hoopdriver, is a frustrated \"draper's assistant\"[2] in Putney, a badly paid, grinding position (and one which Wells briefly held); and yet he owns a bicycle and is setting out on a bicycling tour of \"the Southern Coast\" on his annual ten days' holiday. Hoopdriver survives his frustration by escaping in his imagination into a world of fantasy. He is not a skilled rider of his forty-three-pound bicycle, and his awkwardness reflects both Wells's own uncertainties in negotiating the English class system and his critical view of that society. Nonetheless, Hoopdriver is treated sympathetically: \"But if you see how a mere counter-jumper, a cad on castors, and a fool to boot, may come to feel the little insufficiencies of life, and if he has to any extent won your sympathies, my end is attained\".\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Createspace Independent Publishing Platform","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45541296865431,"sku":"9781539583950","price":1111.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781539583950.webp?v=1767176673","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-wheels-of-chance-a-bicycling-idyll-9781539583950","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}