A Swiftian Fable: The Origin of Leather in HG Wells's The Time Machine (original) (raw)

A Swiftian Fable: The Origin of Leather in HG Wells's The Time Machine

Notes and Queries, 2010

Abstract

Wells's self-proclaimed indebtedness to Swift provides a valuable clue as to the origin of this future leather. 3 In the final voyage of Gulliver's Travels, the eponymous hero uses skin derived from the unmistakeably human Yahoos to sole his shoes as he replenishes his worn-out ...

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