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Certain Personal Matters

Certain Personal Matters

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  • Genres: 
    Essays & short works
  • Languages: 
    English
  • Provider: Librivox
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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

Chapters

  • 01
    Thoughts on Cheapness and My Aunt Charlotte
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  • 02
    The Trouble of Life
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  • 03
    On the Choice of a Wife
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  • 04
    The House of Di Sorno
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  • 05
    Of Conversation
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  • 06
    In a Literary Household
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  • 07
    On Schooling and the Phases of Mr. Sandsome
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  • 08
    The Poet and the Emporium
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  • 09
    The Language of Flowers
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  • 10
    The Literary Regimen
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  • 11
    House-Hunting as an Outdoor Amusement
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  • 12
    Of Blades and Bladery
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  • 13
    Of Cleverness
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  • 14
    The Pose Novel
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  • 15
    The Veteran Cricketer
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  • 16
    Concerning a Certain Lady
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  • 17
    The Shopman
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  • 18
    The Book of Curses
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  • 19
    Dunstone’s Dear Lady
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  • 20
    Euphemia’s New Entertainment
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  • 21
    For Freedom of Spelling
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  • 22
    Incidental Thoughts on a Bald Head
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  • 23
    Of a Book Unwritten
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  • 24
    The Extinction of Man
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  • 25
    The Writing of Essays
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  • 26
    The Parkes Museum
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  • 27
    Bleak March in Epping Forest
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  • 28
    The Theory of Quotation
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  • 29
    Of the Art of Staying at the Seaside
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  • 30
    Concerning Chess
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  • 31
    The Coal-Scuttle
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  • 32
    Bagarrow
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  • 33
    The Book of Essays Dedicatory
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  • 34
    Through a Microscope
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  • 35
    The Pleasure of Quarrelling
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  • 36
    The Amateur Nature-Lover
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  • 37
    From an Observatory
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  • 38
    The Mode in Monuments
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  • 39
    How I Died
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