Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences

First published in 1895, "Select Conversations with an Uncle" constitutes Wells'' first literary publication in the form of a book. It comprises accounts of twelve fictional conversations with a witty uncle who has recently come back from South Africa, returning with some degree of affluence. It also contains two other conversations on aestheticism and physiognomy entitled "A Misunderstood Artist"...