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The Sea Lady

H. G. Wells

Book Overview: 

A mermaid contrives to have herself "rescued from drowning" and adopted by a respectable family on the English coast. Her motive, which she conceals for quite a while, is to win the heart of a handsome but irresponsible young man whom she glimpsed when he went swimming in the Pacific. Introduced into polite society as an invalid, she proves to be intelligent and charming, but as an immortal she regards the concerns of the English gentry with critical detachment. The young man, who is already engaged, falls under her spell and begins to doubt the importance of the political career into which his fiancée has been directing him. There are, after all, "other dreams." But does his new relationship offer him any real future?

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .But several mornings ago?”

“Could it have been Mr. Melville?… I know! You mean Mr. Chatteris! I remember, he came down with us one morning. A tall young man with fair—rather[56] curlyish you might say—hair, wasn’t it? And a rather thoughtful face. He was dressed all in white linen and he sat on the beach.”

“I fancy he did,” said the Sea Lady.

“He’s not my son. He’s—he’s a friend. He’s engaged to Adeline, to the elder Miss Glendower. He was stopping here for a night or so. I daresay he’ll come again on his way back from Paris. Dear me! Fancy my having a son like that!”

The Sea Lady was not quite prompt in replying.

“What a stupid mistake for me to make!” she said slowly; and then with more animation, “Of course, now I think, he’s much too old to be your son!”

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Community Reviews

3.75

I read this delightful featherweight novel by H. G. Wells for completely parochial reasons: it’s set in my current hometown of Folkestone, and it’s among the inspirations for an interesting sculpture in the town by Cornelia Parker, The Folkestone Mermaid. I can’t imagine I would have stumbled across

Review: The Sea Lady
By: HG Wells
5/5 STARS

“Did there come a sudden horror upon him at the last, a sudden perception of infinite error, and was he drawn down, swiftly and terribly, a bubbling repentance, into those unknown deeps? Or was she tinder and wonderful to the last, and did she wrapped her a

A skippable, unnecessary, and nonetheless pleasant-to-dip-into novel from Mr. Wells, who felt compulsed to reach triple digits with his belletristic novelizing. Sure, he dashed off a few masterpieces in his day, but this is not one of them. I doubt he could even recall writing it a few years later.

H.G. Wells wrote this book at the end of the nineteenth century, and wrote it in the style of that time. It's glib and gossipy and, along with the title itself, whimsical. The extended first part of the story, longish and often irrelevant to the story, might have been the author's way to help make t

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