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Certain Personal Matters

Name: Certain Personal Matters
Author: H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells

Read by Foon, Larry Wilson, D. Wood, Scotty Smith, Graham Scott, Elisabeth, Greg Giordano, GentleJim, Melody Khoriaty, Rowan Etzel, Keir and Christopher Lawson · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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Thoughts on Cheapness and My Aunt Charlotte (10:19)
The Trouble of Life (13:30)
On the Choice of a Wife (8:47)
The House of Di Sorno (10:18)
Of Conversation (11:31)
In a Literary Household (8:40)
On Schooling and the Phases of Mr. Sandsome (13:43)
The Poet and the Emporium (10:01)
The Language of Flowers (9:12)
The Literary Regimen (9:36)
House-Hunting as an Outdoor Amusement (11:15)
Of Blades and Bladery (9:48)
Of Cleverness (9:35)
The Pose Novel (9:20)
The Veteran Cricketer (10:56)
Concerning a Certain Lady (10:50)
The Shopman (8:16)
The Book of Curses (10:06)
Dunstone’s Dear Lady (8:40)
Euphemia’s New Entertainment (7:47)
For Freedom of Spelling (11:58)
Incidental Thoughts on a Bald Head (9:03)
Of a Book Unwritten (14:56)
The Extinction of Man (12:05)
The Writing of Essays (7:21)
The Parkes Museum (9:01)
Bleak March in Epping Forest (7:30)
The Theory of Quotation (7:00)
Of the Art of Staying at the Seaside (10:47)
Concerning Chess (10:22)
The Coal-Scuttle (10:25)
Bagarrow (11:09)
The Book of Essays Dedicatory (5:55)
Through a Microscope (9:27)
The Pleasure of Quarrelling (11:30)
The Amateur Nature-Lover (10:30)
From an Observatory (5:24)
The Mode in Monuments (10:24)
How I Died (6:33)