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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.
- Chapters
- Thoughts on Cheapness and My Aunt Charlotte
- The Trouble of Life
- On the Choice of a Wife
- The House of Di Sorno
- Of Conversation
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Of the Art of Staying at the Seaside
- Concerning Chess
- The Coal-Scuttle
- Bagarrow
- The Book of Essays Dedicatory
- Through a Microscope
- The Pleasure of Quarrelling
- The Amateur Nature-Lover
- From an Observatory
- The Mode in Monuments
- How I Died