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In the Days of the Comet

H. G. Wells

  • Fantasy
  • Book language: English
  • 207 pages

In the Days of the Comet is a science-fiction novel by H. G. Wells. It begins in a restless industrial England, where personal longing and social conflict meet the arrival of a strange comet; afterward, the world is not the same. Worth listening for its dream of human renewal and its blend of realism and utopian vision.

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“The World’s Great Age begins anew,
The Golden Years return,
The Earth doth like a Snake renew
Her Winter Skin outworn:
Heaven smiles, and Faiths and Empires gleam
Like Wrecks of a Dissolving Dream.”

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