H. G. Wells 1 hr 35 min read

On a moonlit shore, a sea-maiden comes among mortals, and longing and wonder shadow the summer air, a sketch, in moonlight, of desire from beyond the human world.

H. G. Wells's 1902 novel 'The Sea Lady' (this Hungarian edition) is a wry, melancholy fantasy of a mermaid ashore. Ironic, wistful, beautifully told. Read it for a subtler Wells, a mermaid's arrival among Edwardian society as a sly, poignant fable of enchantment and the pull of the impossible, here in Hungarian.

In its time

Published in 1902, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

1 hr 35 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).