The Wonderful Visit

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H. G. Wells

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When a country vicar accidentally shoots down an angel who has strayed from the Land of Dreams, the bewildered celestial visitor is taken into the vicarage, where his innocence exposes the cruelty, hypocrisy, and absurdity of ordinary English village life. Wells’s whimsical early fantasy uses the angel’s outsider eyes to satirize humanity with gentle irony and growing poignancy. Part fairy tale, part social comedy, part tragedy, The Wonderful Visit is a charming and thoughtful fable about beauty and goodness colliding with a narrow world. Light yet pointed, it reveals the imaginative playfulness and moral seriousness that run through all of Wells’s work.

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H. G. Wells

Was apprenticed to a draper at fourteen, hated it, won a scholarship to study biology under Thomas Huxley, and turned science into fiction for the first time, and nobody since has fully improved on it. The Time Machine invents the machine and then uses it…

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The Wonderful Visit (1895) is a public domain work.

#	Chapter	Length
1	I The Night of the Strange Bird	3:15
2	II The Coming of the Strange Bird	5:04
3	III The Hunting of the Strange Bird	3:55
4	IV	2:52
5	V	5:36
6	VI The Vicar and the Angel	13:47
7	VII	4:07
8	VIII	4:46
9	IX Parenthesis on Angels	3:34
10	X At the Vicarage	4:51
11	XI	3:17
12	XII	5:50
13	XIII The Man of Science	5:54
14	XIV	6:24
15	XV The Curate	5:54
16	XVI	7:13
17	XVII	4:59
18	XVIII After Dinner	12:03
19	XIX	2:32
20	XX	4:42
21	XXI	5:01
22	XXII Morning	4:19
23	XXIII The Violin	6:09
24	XXIV The Angel Explores the Village	7:55
25	XXV	2:52
26	XXVI	8:33
27	XXVII	5:59
28	XXVIII Lady Hammergallow's View	9:45
29	XXIX Further Adventures of the Angel in the Village	6:46
30	XXX	7:55
31	XXXI Mrs Jehoram's Breadth of View	6:14
32	XXXII A Trivial Incident	2:03
33	XXXIII The Warp and the Woof of Things	4:14
34	XXXIV The Angel's Debut	23:04
35	XXXV	4:22
36	XXXVI	1:28
37	XXXVII	3:34
38	XXXVIII The Trouble of the Barbed Wire	7:12
39	XXXIX	4:03
40	XL Delia	5:45
41	XLI Doctor Crump acts	10:53
42	XLII Sir John Gotch acts	5:27
43	XLIII The Sea Cliff	4:17
44	XLIV Mrs Hinijer acts	4:37
45	XLV The Angel in Trouble	4:15
46	XLVI	4:34
47	XLVII The Last Day of the Visit	6:57
48	XLVIII	6:47
49	XLVIX	1:21
50	L	3:36
51	LI	3:19
52	LII	2:04
53	LIII The Epilogue	3:30