A Book of English Essays

Contributor(s): Williams, W.EMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: London, Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, [1951]Description: 378ISBN: 9780140431537; 0140431535Subject(s): English EssaysDDC classification: 824
Contents:
Of studies ; Of ambition ; Of travel / Francis Bacon -- On death / Jeremy Taylor -- The tombs in Westminster Abbey ; A vision of justice ; Ladies' head-dress ; The exercise of the fan ; Sunday in the country ; On the cries of London ; A citizen's diary / Joseph Addison -- Recollections of childhood ; A prize fight / Richard Steele -- The man in black ; Beau Tibbs ; A party at Vauxhall Gardens ; National prejudices / Oliver Goldsmith -- Old China ; Imperfect sympathies ; Poor relations ; The convalescent ; The superannuated man ; In praise of chimney-sweepers / Charles Lamb -- On going a journey ; On the ignorance of the learned ; On familiar style / William Hazlitt -- On the knocking at the gate in Macbeth / Thomas de Quincey -- Getting up on cold mornings ; A few thoughts on sleep / Leigh Hunt -- Walking tours ; An apology for idlers ; A plea for gas lamps / Robert Louis Stevenson -- A defence of nonsense ; A piece of chalk ; A defence of penny dreadfuls / G.K. Chesterton -- The crooked streets ; A conversation with a cat / Hilaire Belloc -- The maypole and the column / Maurice Hewlett -- A funeral ; The town week ; A door-plate / E.V. Lucas -- The defects of English prose / Arthur Clutton-Brock -- Broken memories / Edward Thomas -- Likes and dislikes / James Agate -- The darkness ; On not being a philosopher ; Why we hate insects ; The pleasures of ignorance / Robert Lynd -- A village celebration ; Golden fruit / A.A. Milne -- A defence of shyness ; Food ; Men's clothes / Harold Nicolson -- 'W.G.' / Neville Cardus -- A sentimantal journey / Ivor Brown -- On doing nothing ; My first article ; Seeing the actors ; Money for nothing ; Quietly malicious chairmanship / J.B. Priestley -- Tragedy and the whole truth ; Selected snobberies / Aldous Huxley -- The dean ; The first detective / V.S. Pritchett.
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"First published 1942."

Of studies ; Of ambition ; Of travel / Francis Bacon --
On death / Jeremy Taylor --
The tombs in Westminster Abbey ; A vision of justice ; Ladies' head-dress ; The exercise of the fan ; Sunday in the country ; On the cries of London ; A citizen's diary / Joseph Addison --
Recollections of childhood ; A prize fight / Richard Steele --
The man in black ; Beau Tibbs ; A party at Vauxhall Gardens ; National prejudices / Oliver Goldsmith --
Old China ; Imperfect sympathies ; Poor relations ; The convalescent ; The superannuated man ; In praise of chimney-sweepers / Charles Lamb --
On going a journey ; On the ignorance of the learned ; On familiar style / William Hazlitt --
On the knocking at the gate in Macbeth / Thomas de Quincey --
Getting up on cold mornings ; A few thoughts on sleep / Leigh Hunt --
Walking tours ; An apology for idlers ; A plea for gas lamps / Robert Louis Stevenson --
A defence of nonsense ; A piece of chalk ; A defence of penny dreadfuls / G.K. Chesterton --
The crooked streets ; A conversation with a cat / Hilaire Belloc --
The maypole and the column / Maurice Hewlett --
A funeral ; The town week ; A door-plate / E.V. Lucas --
The defects of English prose / Arthur Clutton-Brock --
Broken memories / Edward Thomas --
Likes and dislikes / James Agate --
The darkness ; On not being a philosopher ; Why we hate insects ; The pleasures of ignorance / Robert Lynd --
A village celebration ; Golden fruit / A.A. Milne --
A defence of shyness ; Food ; Men's clothes / Harold Nicolson --
'W.G.' / Neville Cardus --
A sentimantal journey / Ivor Brown --
On doing nothing ; My first article ; Seeing the actors ; Money for nothing ; Quietly malicious chairmanship / J.B. Priestley --
Tragedy and the whole truth ; Selected snobberies / Aldous Huxley --
The dean ; The first detective / V.S. Pritchett.

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