Requirements: .MP3 reader, 174 mb
Overview: For all its strangeness, “unusual” being vastly understated here, this collection of five short stories by H.G. Wells lies close to home. The strongest exhibit here, and least Wellsian in atmosphere, is “The Door in the Wall,” a middle-aged man’s reminiscence and lament about his missed opportunities to return to a beautiful alternate world he discovers in his childhood, the entrance to which appears only irregularly throughout his life. The recounting of the man’s career is sympathetic as he becomes immersed in material ambitions, and the narration builds considerable pathos even though the loss is both vivid and unreal. Stranger stuff is encountered in the next stories, including a domestic tragedy involving a stranded explorer who struggles to live in harmony with a fierce prehistoric bird. Sentimentality and presuppositions of humankind’s superiority collide with the bird’s brutal nature and the explorer finds himself acting upon his own terrible instincts. The remainder of the stories are more alike, all set in and around London, and supposing odd changes in life as usual. The best of these, “The Truth about Pyecroft,” is a wickedly humorous fantasy about a malfunctioning cure for obesity, even though the highlight is deflated by a gross spoiler on the back of the CD case. In these last stories, we see Wells in his most comfortable role as satirist and disappointed social reformer, who loved nothing more than to unleash monsters in complacent London neighbourhoods and to reveal the animal hidden beneath the dress of Victorian morality.
Genre: Audiobooks > Fiction > Science Fiction
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