The Vicar of Siddermorton, an amateur ornithologist, fires at a brilliant bird over his parish and brings down an angel with a damaged wing. Taking the innocent visitor home, he watches him meet English village life, its squire, its doctor and its boys, and fail entirely to understand why people behave as they do.
A gentle, satirical fable from 1895, the same year as The Time Machine. Download the free EPUB.