Name: The Pearl of Love
Price: 39.98 USD
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Author: H. G. Wells

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WELLS, H. G.

The Pearl of Love

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A prince loses his queen and spends the rest of his life building the most beautiful monument the world has ever seen in her memory — the Pearl of Love….

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Part of H. G. Wells: The Complete Works, which reads in order.

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H. G. Wells The Pearl of Love Overview This is Wells doing something he rarely does: telling somebody else’s story. He opens by disclaiming it outright — this is a “short one” out of “mediaeval Persian prose,” already a well-worn subject for theologians and aestheticians by the time he retells it, and he confesses he feels none of the fascination for pearls that the fable trades on. What follows is a fable about a prince who loses his queen and spends his whole life building a monument to her, a…

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Accession:FL-0424

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Language:en

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