The wonderful visit

<p><i>The Wonderful Visit</i> is an early work by <a href=" G.</abbr> Wells</a>, published in the same year as <a href=" Time Machine</i></a>. It takes a gentle, semi-comic approach to some of Wells’ social concerns by using the device of an angel fallen into our world from the Land of Dreams. This external observer, largely ignorant of the ways of humans and our society, is able to focus an unbiased eye on our failings.</p> <p>The story opens with a strange glare over the little village of Sidderford one night, observed by only a few. But then reports arise of a Strange Bird being seen in …