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The Food of the Gods

by H. G. Wells

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First published: 1904
Pages: 203

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Bk. 1, Ch. 1 - The Discovery of the Food
15:35
Bk. 1, Ch. 2 - The Experimental Farm
49:59
Bk. 1, Ch. 3 - The Giant Rats
51:09
Bk. 1, Ch. 4 - The Giant Children
42:09
Bk. 1, Ch. 5 - The Minimificence of Mr. Bensington
18:18
Bk. 2, Ch. 1 - The Coming of the Food
30:47
Bk. 2, Ch. 2 - The Brat Gigantic
26:39
Bk. 3, Ch. 1 - The Altered World
38:13
Bk. 3, Ch. 2 - The Giant Lovers
27:56
Bk. 3, Ch. 3 - Young Caddles in London
21:02
Bk. 3, Ch. 4 - Redwood's Two Days
29:54
Bk. 3, Ch. 5 - The Giant Leaguer
24:58

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Two absent-minded scientists develop a compound that makes anything it feeds accelerate wildly in size, and they lose control of it almost at once. Chickens grow to the height of men, wasps and rats turn monstrous, and before long human children raised on the stuff tower over the frightened world around them. Wells uses the runaway experiment to poke at English complacency and at a society terrified of anything larger than itself. The comedy of giant vermin gives way to a serious question about progress and whether the future belongs to those bold enough to grow into it.

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H. G. Wells

Herbert George Wells was an English writer, prolific in many genres. He wrote more than forty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography, and autobiography.