Wonderful Visit

This book contains H. G. Wells'' 1895 contemporary fantasy novel, "The Wonderful Visit". The story concerns an angel who spends just over a week in southern England. Mistaken for a bird, it is shot by an amateur ornithologist before being taken care of at a vicarage. The more it learns of Victorian society, the more critical of it it becomes; until, finally, it is denounced as a socialist. Herbert...