# This Misery of Boots

Author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53516

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=This+Misery+of+Boots+Wells&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

“It does not do,” said a friend of mine, “to think about boots.” For my own part, I have always been particularly inclined to look at boots, and think about them. I have an odd idea that most general questions can be expressed in terms of foot-wear—which is perhaps why cobblers are often such philosophical men. Accident it may be, gave me this persuasion. A very considerable part of my childhood was spent in an underground kitchen; the window opened upon a bricked-in space, surmounted by a grating before my father’s shop window. So that, when I looked out of the window, instead of seeing—as children of a higher upbringing would do—the heads and bodies of people, I saw their under side. I...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/this-misery-of-boots-53516/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/this-misery-of-boots-53516/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/this-misery-of-boots-53516/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/this-misery-of-boots-53516/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/this-misery-of-boots-53516/chapters/2/index.md)