- Fiction, Upper class in fiction, Upper class, England in fiction
Sir Isaac Harman, international Bread and Cake magnate, suffers an onslaught of women. Waitresses strike at his London tea shops; invading dowagers drive him into hiding in his garden shed; his suffragist sister-in-law nabs his complimentary tickets to a Liberal meeting and goes on the rampage.
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Classical in form, cool, warm and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
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- Author
- H. G. Wells
- First published
- 1914
- Pages
- 465
- Publisher
- Odhams Press, The Literary Press, H. G. Wells Library
- Editions
- 23
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780766171466
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“THE motor-car entered a little white gate, came to a porch under a thick wig of jasmine, and stopped.”
Herbert George Wells was an English author, best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary.
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