Collected essays/
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London:
Bodley Head,
1969
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| Series: | Penguin books
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Table of Contents:
- The lost childhood
- Henry James: the private universe
- Henry James: the religious aspect
- The portrait of a lady
- The plays of Henry James
- The dark backward: a footnote
- Two friends
- From feathers to iron
- Fielding and Sterne
- Servamtys of the novel
- Romance in Pimlico
- The young Dickens
- Hans Andersen
- Franc?ois Mauriac
- Bernanos, the beginner
- The burden of childhood
- Man made angry
- G. K. Chesterton
- Walter de la Mareʹs short stories
- The Saratoga trunk
- Arabia Deserta
- The poker-face
- Ford Madox Ford
- Frederick Rolfe: Edwardian inferno
- Frederick Rolfe: from the devilʹs side
- Frederick Rolfe: a spoilde priest
- Remembering Mr Jones
- The domestic background
- The public life
- Goats and incense
- Some notes on Somerset Maugham
- The town of Malgudi
- Rider Haggardʹs secret
- Journey into success
- Isis idol
- The last buchan
- Edgar Wallace
- Beatrix Potter
- Harkawayʹs Oxford
- Poetry from Limbo
- An unheroic dramatist
- Doctor Oates of Salamanca
- Anthony a? Wood
- John Evelyn
- Background for heroes
- A hoax on Mr Hulton
- A Jacobite poet
- Charles Churchill
- The lover of Leeds
- Inside Oxford
- George Darley
- The Apostles intervene
- Mr Cookʹs century
- The explorers
- -Sore bones: much headacheʹ
- Francis Parkman
- Don in Mexico
- Samuel Butler
- The ugly act
- Eric Gill
- Herbert Read
- The conservative
- Norman Douglas
- Invincible ignorance
- The victor and the victim
- Simone Weil
- Three priests: The Oxford Chaplain; The paradox of a Pope; Eighty years on the Barrack Square
- Three revolutionaries: The man as pure as Lucifer; The marxist heretic; The spy
- Portrait of a maiden lady
- Film lunch
- The unknown war
- Great dog of Weimar
- The British pig
- George Moore and others
- At home
- The Soupsweet land