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Certain Personal Matters

Certain Personal Matters

by H. G. WELLS (1866 - 1946)

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


Bagarrow

Bleak March in Epping Forest

Concerning a Certain Lady

Concerning Chess

Dunstone’s Dear Lady

Euphemia’s New Entertainment

For Freedom of Spelling

From an Observatory

House-Hunting as an Outdoor Amusement

How I Died

In a Literary Household

Incidental Thoughts on a Bald Head

Of a Book Unwritten

Of Blades and Bladery

Of Cleverness

Of Conversation

Of the Art of Staying at the Seaside

On Schooling and the Phases of Mr. Sandsome

On the Choice of a Wife

The Amateur Nature-Lover

The Book of Curses

The Book of Essays Dedicatory

The Coal-Scuttle

The Extinction of Man

The House of Di Sorno

The Language of Flowers

The Literary Regimen

The Mode in Monuments

The Parkes Museum

The Pleasure of Quarrelling

The Poet and the Emporium

The Pose Novel

The Shopman

The Theory of Quotation

The Trouble of Life

The Veteran Cricketer

The Writing of Essays

Thoughts on Cheapness and My Aunt Charlotte

Through a Microscope

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