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Floor Games

by H. G. Wells

Floor Games is a book by H. G. Wells. This light-hearted volume argues in a humorously dictatorial tone that "The jolliest indoor games for boys and girls demand a floor." Illustrated with photographs and drawings, it briefly describes a number of games that can be played on "well lit and airy" floors with "four main groups" of toys: soldiers about two inches high (Wells regrets the "curse of militarism" that makes civilians hard to find), largish wooden bricks, boards and planks, and electric railway rolling stock and rails. Various remarks show that the book is based on Wells's experience of playing such games with his two sons, George Philip "Gip" Wells (1901–1985) and Frank Richard Wells (1903–1982), identified here only by their initials at their family home, 17 Church Row, in the north west London district of Hampstead.

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Language

English

Original Language

English

Published In

1911

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