Certain Personal Matters

H. G. Wells
Language: English
Genres: Essays & Short WorksNon-fiction
Narrators:Foon, Larry Wilson, D. Wood, Scotty Smith, Graham Scott, Elisabeth, Greg Giordano, GentleJim, Melody Khoriaty, Rowan Etzel, Keir, Christopher Lawson
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  • 1. Thoughts on Cheapness and My Aunt Charlotte
  • 2. The Trouble of Life
  • 3. On the Choice of a Wife
  • 4. The House of Di Sorno
  • 5. Of Conversation
  • 6. In a Literary Household
  • 7. On Schooling and the Phases of Mr. Sandsome
  • 8. The Poet and the Emporium
  • 9. The Language of Flowers
  • 10. The Literary Regimen
  • 11. House-Hunting as an Outdoor Amusement
  • 12. Of Blades and Bladery
  • 13. Of Cleverness
  • 14. The Pose Novel
  • 15. The Veteran Cricketer
  • 16. Concerning a Certain Lady
  • 17. The Shopman
  • 18. The Book of Curses
  • 19. Dunstone’s Dear Lady
  • 20. Euphemia’s New Entertainment
  • 21. For Freedom of Spelling
  • 22. Incidental Thoughts on a Bald Head
  • 23. Of a Book Unwritten
  • 24. The Extinction of Man
  • 25. The Writing of Essays
  • 26. The Parkes Museum
  • 27. Bleak March in Epping Forest
  • 28. The Theory of Quotation
  • 29. Of the Art of Staying at the Seaside
  • 30. Concerning Chess
  • 31. The Coal-Scuttle
  • 32. Bagarrow
  • 33. The Book of Essays Dedicatory
  • 34. Through a Microscope
  • 35. The Pleasure of Quarrelling
  • 36. The Amateur Nature-Lover
  • 37. From an Observatory
  • 38. The Mode in Monuments
  • 39. How I Died

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Although best known for his works of science fiction, social commentary and history, H.G. Wells here gives us humorous and light-hearted pieces on a wide variety of intriguing topics from chess to death. Each essay is a gem of wit and delight. - Summary by Larry Wilson

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