6 books like The house on the strand

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Ladies whose bright eyes Ford Madox Ford · 1911 · 363p · ≈ 12h · Challenging What would really happen to a modern man thrown back to the Middle Ages ? Shares: Time Travel, England

The wheels of chance H. G. Wells · 1896 · ★ 3.5 · 243p · ≈ 8h · Challenging The comical Wheels of Chance was written in 1896 at the height of the golden age of the bicycle, when practical and affordable bicycles led to profound social shifts in England. Suddenly people of modest means could travel greater distances for work or even for pleasure, without the limitations of rail schedules, weakening England's rigid class structure and strengthening the movement towards the… Shares: Time Travel, England

To Say Nothing of the Dog Connie Willis · 1997 · ★ 4.1 · 512p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Connie Willis' entertaining comedy inspired by Jerome K. Jerome's [Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)][1]. [Robert A. Heinlein][2] mentioned the earlier work in [Have Spacesuit will Travel][3] as Kip's father's favorite. [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1793164W/Three_Men_in_a_Boat_(to_say_nothing_of_the_dog) [2]:… Shares: Time Travel, England

Morlock Night K. W. Jeter · 1979 · ★ 3.4 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate An unwitting participant in the mission to restore Excalibur to its rightful owner who comes awake only when England needs to be rescued, the narrator of this dark farcical romp is enlisted by Merlin to try to save the world. Written as a sequel to H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, K.W. Jeter created a science fiction tale employing alternate history and clockwork devices in a Victorian London… Shares: Time Travel, England

Making History Stephen Fry · 1996 · ★ 3.9 · 402p · ≈ 13h · Moderate A history student travels back in time to prevent Hitler's birth by dropping an infertility pill into his father's beer. The scheme backfires when a more intelligent dictator comes to power, conquering more territory and developing the atom bomb ahead of the U.S. The student, Michael Young, gets back into his time machine to allow Hitler to be born after all. By the author of The Hippopotamus. Shares: Time Travel, England

Blackout Connie Willis · 2010 · ★ 3.9 · 502p · ≈ 16h · Moderate In her first novel since 2002, Nebula and Hugo award-winning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds--great and small--of ordinary people who shape history. In the hands of this acclaimed storyteller, the past and future collide--and the result is at once intriguing, elusive, and frightening.Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place.… Shares: Time Travel, England

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