In the Days of the Comet

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• Publisher: The Floating Press
• Year: 2009
• eBook ISBN: 9781775410461
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Literature
• Index: Literature

H. G. Wells, in his 1906 In the Days of the Comet uses the vapors of a comet to trigger a deep and lasting change in humanity's perspective on themselves and the world. In the build-up to a great war, poor student William Leadford struggles against the harsh conditions the lower-class live under. He also falls in love with a middle-class girl named Nettie. But when he discovers that Nettie has eloped with a man of upper-class standing, William struggles with the betrayal, and in the disorder of his own mind decides to buy a revolver and kill them both. All through this a large comet lights the night sky with a green glow, bright enough that the street lamps are left unlit.

Table of contents

• IN THE DAYS OF THE COMET
• Contents
• Prologue — The Man Who Wrote in the Tower
• BOOK THE FIRST — THE COMET
• Chapter the First — Dust in the Shadows
• Chapter the Second — Nettie
• Chapter the Third — The Revolver
• Chapter the Fourth — War
• Chapter the Fifth — The Pursuit of the Two Lovers
• BOOK THE SECOND — THE GREEN VAPORS
• Chapter the First — The Change
• Chapter the Second — The Awakening
• Chapter the Third — The Cabinet Council
• BOOK THE THIRD — THE NEW WORLD
• Chapter the First — Love After the Change
• Chapter the Second — My Mother's Last Days
• Chapter the Third — Beltane and New Year's Eve
• The Epilogue — The Window of the Tower