1.FrancisBaconOfStudies 2
2.JonathanSwiftAModestProposal 8
3.JosephAddisonSundayintheCountry 36
4.SamuelJohnsonRambler4—OnFiction 45
5.OliverGoldsmithNationalPrejudices 64
6.WilliamCobbettAShooter 74
7.CharlesLambTheConvalescent 82
8.WilliamHazlittOnFamiliarStyle 95
9.ThomasDeQuinceyOntheKnockingattheGateinMacbeth 114
10.RobertLouisStevensonTheWoodsandthePacific 127
11.AlfredNorthWhiteheadUniversitiesandTheirFunction 134
12.EdmundVerralLucasTheTownWeek 142
13.HilaireBellocTheCrookedStreets 152
14.WinstonChurchillIHaveNothingtoOfferbutBlood,Toil,Tears,andSweat 168
15.MaxBeerbohmSeeingPeopleOff 175
16.BertrandRussellWhatIHaveLivedFor 187
17.GilbertKeithChestertonADefenceofDetectiveStories 193
18.WilliamSomersetMaughamLucidity,Simplicity,Euphony 203
19.RobertLyndTheViceofPunctuality 223
20.EdwardMorganForsterPeople 234
21.VirginiaWoolfTheDeathoftheMoth 255
22.AlanAlexanderMilneGoldenFruit 264
23.AlexanderSoutherlandNeilPunishmentNeverCuresAnything 274
24.AldousHuxleyTheBeautyIndustry 293
25.JohnBoyntonPriestleyTheIronicPrinciple 306
26.GeorgeOrwellPoliticsandtheEnglishLanguage 312
27.WystanHughAudenWork,LabourandPlay 341
28.ArthurC.ClarkeWe llNeverConquerSpace 347
29.JanMorrisAPassionforCities 363
30.DavidStoreyJourneythroughtheTunnel 371