Willie Leadford, a poor and furious young clerk in an English industrial town, buys a revolver when the girl he loves, Nettie, runs off with a gentleman’s son. As he hunts the pair, a comet draws nearer and Britain blunders into war with Germany. Then the comet’s tail sweeps through the atmosphere, and its green gases bring about what the narrator calls the Change.
Wells’s utopian romance asks what would happen if people simply stopped hating one another. Download the free EPUB.