"Bealby: A Holiday" by H. G. Wells is a comic novel published in 1915. When thirteen-year-old Bealby rebels against his position as a servant boy in a grand English estate, he runs away after disrupting an important weekend party. His week-long escape leads him through a series of misadventures with a beautiful actress, a disgraced captain, and a cunning tramp. Each encounter brings chaos and comedy as Bealby discovers the world beyond his sheltered life in pre-World War I England. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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