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    Of Cleverness: Apropos of One Crichton (Unabridged)
    Of Cleverness: Apropos of One Crichton (Unabridged)
    Of Cleverness: Apropos of One Crichton (Unabridged)
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    Of Cleverness: Apropos of One Crichton (Unabridged)

    Written by H. G. Wells

    Narrated by Gary Appleton

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    About this audiobook

    "Of Cleverness: Apropos of One Crichton" by H. G. Wells is a short essay. H. G. Wells once different, humorous social satire and ironic.

    Crichton is an extremely clever person-abnormally, indeed almost unnaturally, so. He is not merely clever at this or that, but clever all round; he gives you no consolations. He goes about being needlessly brilliant.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookstream Audiobooks
    Release dateJan 8, 2021
    ISBN9783991242574
    Of Cleverness: Apropos of One Crichton (Unabridged)
    Author

    H. G. Wells

    H. G. Wells (1866-1946) is best remembered for his science fiction novels, which are considered classics of the genre, including The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). He was born in Bromley, Kent, and worked as a teacher, before studying biology under Thomas Huxley in London.

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