{"product_id":"2940012453914","title":"Select Conversations With an Uncle (Now Extinct)","description":"Wells' first literary work (preceded only by two scientific texts). These fourteen pieces had all appeared in \"The Pall Mall Gazette\" in 1893-94, while Wells had bee n a drama critic on that publication's staff; he used a \"bombastic old fraud\" of an \"Uncle\" character to expound his opinions on a variety of social matters. \"The best of the pieces involve fashionable conversation, how to listen to social music, the problems of the newly married, riding a tricycle (as opposed to a bicycle which was much less dignified).\" [Smith]. SELECT CONVERSATIONS, published in June 1895, heralded Wells' explosion onto the literary scene: THE TIME MACHINE was published one day later, followed by THE WONDERFUL VISIT in September and THE STOLEN BACILLUS in November.","brand":"Solomon Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145264185584,"sku":"2940012453914","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012453914_p0.jpg?v=1763568887","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012453914","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}