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    Certain Personal Matters
    Certain Personal Matters
    Certain Personal Matters
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    Certain Personal Matters

    By H. G. Wells

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    "Certain Personal Matters" by H. G. Wells contains the essays: "Thoughts on Cheapness and My Aunt Charlotte", "The Trouble of Life", "On the Choice of a Wife", "The House of Di Sorno: A Manuscript Found in a Box", "Of Conversation: An Apology", "In a Literary Household", "On Schooling and the Phases of Mr. Sandsome", "The Poet and the Emporium", "The Language of Flowers", "The Literary Regimen", "House-Hunting as an Outdoor Amusement", "Of Blades and Bladery", "Of Cleverness: Apropos of One Crichton", "The Pose Novel", "The Veteran Cricketer", "Concerning a Certain Lady", "The Shopman", "The Book of Curses", "Dunstone's Dear Lady", "Euphemia's New Entertainment", "For Freedom of Spelling: The Discovery of an Art", "Incidental Thoughts on a Bald Head", "Of a Book Unwritten", "The Extinction of Man", "The Writing of Essays", "The Parkes Museum", "Bleak March in Epping Forest", "The Theory of Quotation", "On the Art of Staying at the Seaside: A Meditation at Eastbourne", "Concerning Chess", "The Coal-Scuttle: A Study in Domestic Aesthetics", "Bagarrow", "The Book of Essays Dedicatory", "Through a Microscope: Some Moral Reflections", "The Pleasure of Quarreling", "The Amateur Nature Lover", "From an Observatory", "The Mode in Monuments: Stray Thoughts in Highgate Cemetery", and "How I Died".
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateNov 25, 2019
    ISBN4057664642592
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    H. G. Wells

    H.G. Wells is considered by many to be the father of science fiction. He was the author of numerous classics such as The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The War of the Worlds, and many more. 

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