Certain Personal Matters

Certain Personal Matters

LibriVox · Audiobook · 39 episodes

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

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Episodes

Thoughts on Cheapness and My Aunt Charlotte

Episode 1 · 10:19
The Trouble of Life

Episode 2 · 13:30
On the Choice of a Wife

Episode 3 · 8:47
The House of Di Sorno

Episode 4 · 10:18
Of Conversation

Episode 5 · 11:31
In a Literary Household

Episode 6 · 8:40
On Schooling and the Phases of Mr. Sandsome

Episode 7 · 13:43
The Poet and the Emporium

Episode 8 · 10:01
The Language of Flowers

Episode 9 · 9:12
The Literary Regimen

Episode 10 · 9:36
House-Hunting as an Outdoor Amusement

Episode 11 · 11:15
Of Blades and Bladery

Episode 12 · 9:48
Of Cleverness

Episode 13 · 9:35
The Pose Novel

Episode 14 · 9:20
The Veteran Cricketer

Episode 15 · 10:56
Concerning a Certain Lady

Episode 16 · 10:50
The Shopman

Episode 17 · 8:16
The Book of Curses

Episode 18 · 10:06
Dunstone’s Dear Lady

Episode 19 · 8:40
Euphemia’s New Entertainment

Episode 20 · 7:47
For Freedom of Spelling

Episode 21 · 11:58
Incidental Thoughts on a Bald Head

Episode 22 · 9:03
Of a Book Unwritten

Episode 23 · 14:56
The Extinction of Man

Episode 24 · 12:05
The Writing of Essays

Episode 25 · 7:21
The Parkes Museum

Episode 26 · 9:01
Bleak March in Epping Forest

Episode 27 · 7:30
The Theory of Quotation

Episode 28 · 7:00
Of the Art of Staying at the Seaside

Episode 29 · 10:47
Concerning Chess

Episode 30 · 10:22
The Coal-Scuttle

Episode 31 · 10:25
Bagarrow

Episode 32 · 11:09
The Book of Essays Dedicatory

Episode 33 · 5:55
Through a Microscope

Episode 34 · 9:27
The Pleasure of Quarrelling

Episode 35 · 11:30
The Amateur Nature-Lover

Episode 36 · 10:30
From an Observatory

Episode 37 · 5:24
The Mode in Monuments

Episode 38 · 10:24
How I Died

Episode 39 · 6:33