H.G. Wells's A Story of the Days to Come (Unabridged)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/492054 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Story of the Days to Come (Unabridged) Author: H.G. Wells Narrator: Peter Walters Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 13 minutes Release date: November 27, 2020 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: 'A Story of the Days To Come' is a novella by H. G. Wells comprising five chapters that was first published in the June to October 1899 issues of The Pall Mall Magazine. It was later included in an 1899 collection of Wells's short stories, Tales of Space and Time. The novella depicts two lovers in a dystopian future London of the 22nd century and explores the implications of excessive urbanisation, class warfare, and advances in the technology of medicine, communication, transportation, and agriculture. Like When the Sleeper Wakes, published in the same year, the novella extrapolates the trends Wells observed in 19th-century Victorian London two hundred years into the future. The London of the early 22nd century has a population of over 30 million, with the lower classes living in subterranean dwellings, and the middle and upper classes living in skyscrapers and largely communal accommodations. Moving walkways interconnect the city, with fast air-travel and superhighways available between cities. The countryside is largely abandoned.