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Certain Personal Matters

by H. G. WELLS (1866 - 1946)

Thoughts on Cheapness and My Aunt Charlotte

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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Listen next episodes of Certain Personal Matters:
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 , Through a Microscope