Bealby

by H. G. Wells

Overview

Bealby H. G. Wells - Bealby: A Holiday is a 1915 comic novel by H. G. Wells.Bealby is the story of the escapade of a thirteen-year-old boy when he rebels against his placement as a steward's-room boy in the great house of an estate named Shonts (his stepfather, Mr. Darling, is a gardener there) and fleesnot, however, before thoroughly upsetting a weekend party where the nouveau riche couple renting Shonts is entertaining the Lord Chancellor.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783986773311
Publisher:	Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Publication date:	11/02/2021
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	333
File size:	725 KB

About the Author

H.G. Wells was a writer of science-fiction works, including 'The Time Machine' and 'War of the Worlds,' who had a great influence on our vision of the future.Who Was H.G. Wells?H.G. Wells' parents were shopkeepers in Kent, England. His first novel, The Time Machine was an instant success and Wells produced a series of science fiction novels which pioneered our ideas of the future. His later work focused on satire and social criticism. Wells laid out his socialist views of human history in his Outline of History.

Date of Birth:

September 21, 1866

Date of Death:

August 13, 1946

Place of Birth:

Bromley, Kent, England

Place of Death:

London, England

Education:

Normal School of Science, London, England

Table of Contents

1	Young Bealby Goes to Shonts	1
2	A Weekend at Shonts	19
3	The Wanderers	49
4	The Unobtrusive Parting	83
5	The Seeking of Bealby	115
6	Bealby and the Tramp	167
7	The Battle of Crayminster	199
8	How Bealby Explained	231