Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von In den Tagen des Kometen
Für wen es gedacht ist
For readers who enjoy science fiction rooted in real streets and real feelings, who like a narrator looking back on his own mistakes, and who are curious how Wells imagined society could start over.
Worum es in diesem Buch geht
A comet grows brighter each night over the smoky Midlands, and a hurt young clerk cares only about one thing: revenge. In the Days of the Comet is a novel by H. G. Wells, told by an old man looking back fifty years at his younger self. You get a bitter love story, a country sliding toward strikes and war, and a sky that will not be ignored. First, meet the stranger in the tower.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1A stranger in a tower reads a manuscriptFree
- 2A shabby world seen through a young man's eyes
- 3Love letters and a lockout drive Willie to quarrel
- 4A walk to Checkshill ends in moonlight
- 5A revolver, a strike and a crowd at the mine
- 6Nettie is gone and a postmark gives a clue
- 7A theft, a war scare and the power of the press
- 8The search at the sea ends in a dark chase
- 9What the story is really about and how it is told
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A stranger in a tower reads a manuscript
The book opens with a visitor who finds himself in a high, bright room in an unnamed, beautiful place. A gray-haired man sits writing there, and he explains that his pages are about the Change. He invites the visitor to read, and the visitor sits down with the first bundle.
The pages tell the story of Willie Leadford, who is the writer himself as a young man. The writer is seventy-two as he works, and he looks back across fifty years at a life he can hardly believe was his. He describes the young Willie as boastful, vain and hurt, and says he feels pity and some dislike for him.
This frame sets a question that runs through the whole book. How can one person hold two such different worlds in memory? The old man promises to show the dark old world plainly, so that younger readers will understand what came before.
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Questions about In den Tagen des Kometen
What is In the Days of the Comet about?
A poor clerk named Willie Leadford chases the girl he loves, and the rival who took her, across England as a comet approaches. Wells uses the chase to show an angry, divided society and what might follow when it changes.
Who is Willie Leadford and who tells the story?
Willie is a young Midlands clerk in the main story, and the old man writing in the tower is the same person at seventy-two. He tells his own story in the first person, looking back with pity and humor.
Where does In the Days of the Comet begin?
The story begins in the industrial Midlands, among smoky towns, potteries and mines. Willie works at Rawdon's pot bank in Clayton, while his friend Parload studies science in Overcastle.
Is In the Days of the Comet easy to follow?
A visitor's account frames Willie's memories, with a love story, strikes, a chase and short numbered sections. The old narrator explains unfamiliar details as he goes, so a reader can enjoy the story from the first page.
What is the main message of the book?
Wells argues that anger, greed and jealousy are tied to the way people live and think, and that society can be remade. The book also asks how love can survive when old ideas of owning other people fade.