The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll, livre ebook

Mr. Hoopdriver, is a frustrated draper's assistant in Putney, a badly paid, grinding position and one which Wells briefly held; and yet he owns a bicycle and is setting out on a bicycling tour of the Southern Coast on his annual ten days' holiday. Hoopdriver survives his frustration by escaping in his imagination into a world of fantasy.