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Select Conversations with an Uncle (annotated)

Select Conversations with an Uncle (annotated)

Wells, H. G.

Paperback

Classic Fiction

ISBN10: 1517646685
ISBN13: 9781517646684
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Oct 3 2015
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.16 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Select Conversations with an Uncle, published in 1895, was H.G. Wells's first literary publication in book form. It consists of reports of twelve conversations between a fictional witty uncle who has returned to London from South Africa with a certain affluence, as well as two other conversations (one on aestheticism that takes place in a train, titled A Misunderstood Artist, and another on physiognomy, titled The Man with a Nose). The principal themes of the conversations between a Wells-like character named George and his uncle are fashion, the inevitability of human discomfort due to passing social movements, the resemblance of ideals to interior decoration, the art of being photographed, the social basis of taste in art and music, the state of being engaged, the agony of having to listen to a near neighbor playing the piano, tricycles, social novels, and the effects of marriage. Slect Conversations with an Uncle was published in a limited edition by John Lane in a series called The Mayfair Set and in New York by Merriam. The volume was dedicated to To my dearest and best friend, R.A.C., which is a misprint either for R.A. Gregory, Wells's friend who later became the editor of Nature between 1919 and 1939, or for Wells's wife, Amy Catherine Robbins (better known as Jane); it was published the day before The Time Machine. The pieces in the book were drawn from thirty or more articles by Wells published in the Pall Mall Gazette beginning in 1893. Wells's uncle character had been very well received in the Pall Mall Gazette, but not all reviews of the volume were favorable. The Athenaeum panned it as a dreary and foolish assemblage of commonplace ideas expressed in stilted phraseology.

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