Name: Miss Winchelsea’s Heart
Price: 39.98 USD
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Author: H. G. Wells

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WELLS, H. G.

Miss Winchelsea’s Heart

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Miss Winchelsea is touring Rome with two old school friends when she meets, on the train out of Charing Cross, a quiet young man with a volume of poetry and…

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

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H. G. Wells Miss Winchelsea’s Heart Overview This is Wells doing pure social comedy, and doing it with real precision. Miss Winchelsea is a schoolmistress of careful, cultivated refinement, touring Rome with two less sophisticated friends and falling — cautiously, aesthetically, almost against her own better taste — for a well-read young man she meets on the train. Everything about him is right: his poetry, his Latin, his tact, his boots (“though brown, were not vulgar”). Then his friend calls him by his actual name across the Piazza steps, and…

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Accession:FL-0490

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Language:en

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