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Christina Alberta's father

Chapter 1: CHRISTINA ALBERTA’S FATHER
By H. G. Wells
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The story follows Mr. Preemby, a retired laundryman and widower, and the close, often intrusive presence of his daughter, Christina Alberta, as their lives unfold in contemporary London. It traces Preemby’s dreamy, art-tinged background and his uneasy adaptation to commercial and domestic routines after marrying into a laundry family. An extraordinary public episode sees him assume a messianic persona called Sargon, whose rise, rejection, and symbolic resurrection provoke social attention and personal upheaval. Christina’s determined search for her father amid these events frames a meditation on familial loyalty, personal idealism, and the friction between private affections and public spectacle.

CHRISTINA ALBERTA’S FATHER

MR. WELLS has also written the following novels:

THE WHEELS OF CHANCE.
LOVE AND MR. LEWISHAM.
KIPPS.
TONO-BUNGAY.
ANN VERONICA.
MR. POLLY.
THE NEW MACHIAVELLI.
MARRIAGE.
THE PASSIONATE FRIENDS.
THE WIFE OF SIR ISAAC HARMAN.
BEALBY.
THE RESEARCH MAGNIFICENT.
MR. BRITLING SEES IT THROUGH.
THE SOUL OF A BISHOP.
JOAN AND PETER.
THE UNDYING FIRE.
THE SECRET PLACES OF THE HEART.

The following Fantastic and Imaginative Romances:

THE TIME MACHINE.
THE WONDERFUL VISIT.
THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU.
THE INVISIBLE MAN.
THE WAR OF THE WORLDS.
THE SLEEPER AWAKES.
THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON.
THE SEA LADY.
THE FOOD OF THE GODS.
IN THE DAYS OF THE COMET.
THE WAR IN THE AIR.
THE WORLD SET FREE.
MEN LIKE GODS.
THE DREAM.

Numerous Short Stories collected under the following Titles:

THE STOLEN BACILLUS.
THE PLATTNER STORY.
TALES OF SPACE AND TIME.
TWELVE STORIES AND A DREAM.

The same Short Stories will also be found in three volumes:

TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED.
TALES OF WONDER.
TALES OF LIFE AND ADVENTURE.

A Series of Books on Social, Religious, and Political Questions:

ANTICIPATIONS (1900).
A MODERN UTOPIA.
THE FUTURE IN AMERICA.
NEW WORLDS FOR OLD.
FIRST AND LAST THINGS.
GOD THE INVISIBLE KING.
THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY.
RUSSIA IN THE SHADOWS.
THE SALVAGING OF CIVILIZATION.
WASHINGTON AND THE RIDDLE OF PEACE.
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WORLD.
THE STORY OF A GREAT SCHOOLMASTER.
A YEAR OF PROPHESYING.

And Two Little Books about Children’s Play, called:

FLOOR GAMES AND LITTLE WARS.

A uniform Atlantic Edition of Mr. Wells’ works is in course of publication.