Title: Certain Personal Matters: A Collection of Material, Mainly Autobiographical
Title Record # 2732798
Author: H. G. Wells
Date: 1898-00-00
Type: NONFICTION [non-genre]
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
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Author: H. G. Wells
Date: 1898-00-00
Type: NONFICTION [non-genre]
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Note:
- 39 humourous essays "selected by H. G. Wells from among the many short essays and ephemeral pieces he had written since 1893." --Wikipedia
- Some may be considered short stories, and speculative fiction. None are in The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells (expanded).
- PREFACE (quoted in full, from the 1st ed. viewed at HathiTrust) It is useless to attempt disguise about this book. It is made up of articles—newspaper articles—etc. They appeared for the most part in the Pall Mall Gazette, and one or two in the New Budget and the Saturday Review. I desire to make the usual acknowledgments—whatever they may be.
Synopsis:
"More than half of the essays are humorous social satire; serious subjects are addressed only ironically. Politics, historical and economic topics, and identifiable portraiture are eschewed. ...
Half a dozen essays engage scientific themes, especially natural selection and evolution ..."
--Wikipedia
Two that engage scientific themes:
• "Of a Book Unwritten"
• "The Extinction of Man"
The former was first published in 1893 as "The Man of the Year Million: A Scientific Forecast". It may be the longest in the collection, more than 2200 words.
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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Certain Personal Matters: A Collection of Material, Mainly Autobiographical | 1898-00-00 | H. G. Wells | Lawrence & Bullen |
viii+ 278 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
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Certain Personal Matters | 1901-00-00 | H. G. Wells | T. Fisher Unwin | 1/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced
in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings
equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling.
Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g.
3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that
is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but
sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters
of a shilling). |
184 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
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Certain Personal Matters | 2006-01-12 | H. G. Wells | Project Gutenberg | 17508 | $0.00?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
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