The Wonderful Visit cover art

The Wonderful Visit

Preview

£0.00 for first 30 days

Try for £0.00
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

The Wonderful Visit

By: H. G. Wells
Narrated by: Stewart Crank
Try for £0.00

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £11.99

Buy Now for £11.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

The Wonderful Visit is an 1895 novel by H. G. Wells. With an angel - a creature of fantasy unlike a religious angel - as protagonist and taking place in contemporary England, the book could be classified as contemporary fantasy, although the genre was not recognised in Wells's time. The Wonderful Visit also has strong satirical themes, gently mocking customs and institutions of Victorian England as well as idealistic rebellion itself. The Wonderful Visit tells how an angel spends a little more than a week in southern England. He is at first mistaken for a bird because of his dazzling polychromatic plumage, for he is "neither the Angel of religious feeling nor the Angel of popular belief," but rather "the Angel of Italian art." As a result, he is hunted and shot in the wing by an amateur ornithologist, the Rev. K. Hilyer, the vicar of Siddermoton, and then taken in and cared for at the vicarage. The creature comes from "the Land of Dreams" (also the angel's term for our world), and while "charmingly affable," is "quite ignorant of the most elementary facts of civilisation." During his brief visit he grows increasingly dismayed by what he learns about the world in general and about life in Victorian England in particular. As he grows increasingly critical of local mores, he is eventually denounced as "a Socialist."

©2021 Bookstream GmbH (P)2021 Bookstream GmbH
Fiction Literary Fiction Witty England
activate_Holiday_promo_in_buybox_DT_T2

Listeners also enjoyed...

The Plattner Story and Others cover art
The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents cover art
Love and Mr Lewisham cover art
Manalive cover art
Ann Veronica cover art
Holy Terrors cover art
The Other Passenger cover art
The Virgin and the Gypsy cover art
The Lady with the Dog cover art
The Golden Age cover art
The Canterville Ghost cover art
The Picture of Dorian Gray cover art
Father Brown cover art
Lady Audley's Secret cover art
The Short Stories of Anton Chekhov, Volume 1 cover art
The Innocence of Father Brown cover art

What listeners say about The Wonderful Visit

Average customer ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.