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The Sea Lady Online n8AiY [Free] The sea lady Online [n8AiY.ebook] The sea lady Pdf Free H G. 1866-1946 Wells ePub | *DOC | audiobook | ebooks | Download PDF Download Now Free Download Here Download eBook 2012-08-31 2011-06-05Original language:English 10.00 x .76 x 7.50l, #File Name: B00928O2AA334 pages | File size: 53.Mb H G. 1866-1946 Wells : The sea lady before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised The sea lady: 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Starts slow, but builds in the second halfBy KenH.G. Wells wrote this book at the end of the nineteenth century, and wrote it in the style of that time. It's glib and gossipy and, along with the title itself, whimsical. The extended first part of the story, longish and often irrelevant to the story, might have been the author's way to help make the fantasy of a mermaid seem more probable. The first half is reminiscent of Pride and Prejudice, which I thought was tedious and written for a limited local audience who would be delighted by the references to places and behavior. The first half of this book is like that. During a family outing at the beach a family sees a young woman struggling further out in the water. It's only when they "rescue" her that they see that she's a mermaid. They quickly take her into the beach house, still unaware that the mermaid has planned the whole incident in order to meet a young man.Her motives are not quite clear; nor are her intentions of what she plans to do with the young man after she gets him, since she lives beneath the sea. After the first meeting, and all during the first half of the book we meet a lot of characters and hear a lot of gossip, but the mermaid plays little part in it. In fact, in some chapters she isn't mentioned at all.The second half of the story gets back to the mermaid and, with strong sexual overtones, investigates her motives as she selects her target and uses her charms to pull him away from his current lady friend. Here the story changes subtly, and begins to have a "Twilight-Zoneish" feel about it. The second half of the book pulled me in, and during the last quarter of it I couldn't put it down.It finishes beautifully. The writing is superb. Wells's talent is very obvious here, with some of the best writing he ever did, but some readers find the story too inconsequential and tedious. I started with that impression, but it changed after I was into the second part of it. In my opinion, had the first half been drastically trimmed in order to get more quickly to the middle, it would have been an outstanding story.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Quirky short storyBy PeekablueI've never read H. G. Wells before. I do try to read as many classics as I can but with so many books on my wish list, sometimes they get pushed to the backburner. I'm fascinated by mermaids and this story caught my eye. I'd never heard of it before and just happened to see it when scrolling through book titles online. I found it for free on Kindle and read it within two days. It's a short story and I probably could have finished it in a few hours but with working full time and a two year old I just can't read as much as I'd like.Anyway....this was a really interesting little story. Set during 1899, a proper English family takes in a mermaid and passes her off as human. It's rather humorous how they react to her and she reacts to them and being on land. The whole time, I'm thinking that she's got to be up to something unsavory and I can't wait to read more to find out why she really came to shore and what will happen with the people who have befriended her.The whole story is told by a narrator who has his "facts" second and even third hand from "eyewitnesses." I've never read a story quite like that. The language was a little difficult to understand, sometimes, but nothing too difficult. I'm afraid of giving away too much, so I'll stop there. If you like mermaids, and light reading with a small touch of mystery, then I recommend this book.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Thoroughly entertainingBy I. SondelAnother gem from the master. Great passages of brilliant prose. It starts as a comedy of manners with elements of fantasy - there's a mermaid. Then it gets darker as we come to suspect the sea lady's motives...why did she come, what does she mean to do....how will this end. You'll have to read it to find out.This really should be better known. It came during the masters peak period between 1895 and 1905. Place this with the best of his work. This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher. About the AuthorOften called the father of science fiction, British author Herbert George (H. G.) Wells literary works are notable for being some of the first titles of the science fiction genre, and include such famed titles as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Island of Doctor Moreau, and The Invisible Man. Despite being fixedly associated with science fiction, Wells wrote extensively in other genres and on many subjects, including history, society and politics, and was heavily influenced by Darwinism. His first book, Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought, offered predictions about what technology and society would look like in the year 2000, many of which have proven accurate. Wells went on to pen over fifty novels, numerous non-fiction books, and dozens of short stories. His legacy has had an overwhelming influence on science fiction, popular culture, and even on technological and scientific innovation. Wells died in 1946 at the age of 79. 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