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020			_a9780140431537
020			_a0140431535
082			_a824 _bBOO
245		2	_aA Book of English Essays
260			_aLondon, Harmondsworth, Middlesex: _bPenguin Books, _c[1951].
300			_a378
500			_a"First published 1942."
505			_aOf 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.
650			_aEnglish Essays
700			_aWilliams, W.E.
942			_cBK
999			_c18991 _d18991