Revision as of 02:24, 22 August 2016 edit Ser Amantio di Nicolao (talk \| contribs) Autopatrolled, Administrators 5,949,166 edits recat using AWB ← Previous edit		Revision as of 12:03, 9 February 2017 edit undo Stephenshaw83 (talk \| contribs) 82 edits →‎Plot summary: The book is set in the north Midlands (Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme), the original link was sending people to Clayton in Manchester, and the Clayton referenced in the novel is more than likely Clayton in Newcastle. For exam... Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Next edit →
Line 25: This narrative is divided into three "books": ''Book I: The Comet''; ''Book II: The Green Vapours''; and ''Book III: The New World''. Book I, recounts that William ("Willie") Leadford, "third in the office staff of Rawdon's pot-bank [a place where pottery is made] in [[Clayton, ~~Greater Manchester~~Staffordshire\|Clayton]],"<ref name="WellsIn" /> quits his job just as an economic recession caused by American [[Dumping (pricing policy)\|dumping]] hits industrial Britain, and is unable to find another position. His emotional life is dominated by his attachment to Nettie Stuart, "the daughter of the head gardener of the rich Mr. Verrall's widow",<ref name="WellsIn" /> of a village called Checkshill Towers. Converted to [[socialism]] by his friend 'Parload', Leadford blames class-based injustice for the squalid living conditions in which he and his mother live. The date of the action is unspecified. When Nettie jilts Leadford for the son and heir of the Verrall family, Leadford buys a revolver, intending to kill them both and himself. As this plot matures, a comet with an "unprecedented band in the green" in its [[spectroscopy]] looms gradually larger in the sky, eventually becoming brighter than the Moon. Just as Leadford is about to kill his rivals, the green comet enters the Earth's atmosphere and disintegrates, causing a soporific green fog.

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