The Wheels of Chance by H.G. Wells

A young man embarks on a cycling tour with his fiancée, but their relationship is put to the test by various challenges and misadventures along the way. The story explores themes of love, marriage, and social class in late Victorian England.

By H.G. Wells · First published 1896 · Genre: Comedy, Adventure, Social Commentary · 41 chapters

Contents

• The Principal Character in the Story
• CHAPTER II
• CHAPTER III
• The Riding Forth of Mr. Hoopdriver
• The Shameful Episode of the Young Lady in Grey
• On the Road to Ripley
• CHAPTER VII
• CHAPTER VIII
• How Mr. Hoopdriver was Haunted
• The Imaginings of Mr. Hoopdriver's Heart
• Omissions
• The Dreams of Mr. Hoopdriver
• How Mr. Hoopdriver Went to Haslemere
• How Mr. Hoopdriver Reached Midhurst
• An Interlude
• Of the Artificial in Man, and of the Zeitgeist
• The Encounter at Midhurst
• CHAPTER XVIII
• CHAPTER XIX
• The Pursuit
• At Bognor
• CHAPTER XXII
• CHAPTER XXIII
• The Moonlight Ride
• CHAPTER XXV
• The Surbiton Interlude
• The Awakening of Mr. Hoopdriver
• The Departure from Chichester
• The Unexpected Anecdote of the Lion
• The Rescue Expedition
• CHAPTER XXXI
• Mr. Hoopdriver, Knight Errant
• The Abasement of Mr. Hoopdriver
• CHAPTER XXXIV
• CHAPTER XXXV
• CHAPTER XXXVI
• In the New Forest
• At the Rufus Stone
• CHAPTER XXXIX
• CHAPTER XL
• The Envoy

More by H.G. Wells

• The Wild Asses of the Devil (1946)
• Ugh-Lomi and Uya (1946)
• The First Horseman (1946)
• The Fight in the Lion's Thicket (1946)
• The Croquet Player (1937)
• The Time Machine (1895)
• The Reign of Uya the Lion (1946)
• Star-Begotten (1946)
• All works by H.G. Wells