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6 volumes

Essays & Criticism

Thinking in public.

The prose written to argue rather than to tell a story: essays, criticism, and the long personal reflection. The shortest shelf in the Library and the one that most repays a slow reader.

What belongs on this shelf, and what does not

The volumes 6 on this shelf
The catalog
  1. I Delusion and Dream Sigmund Freud and Wilhelm Jensen
  2. II The Craft of Fiction Percy Lubbock
  3. III The English Novel George Saintsbury
  4. IV Animals, Home and Today Various
  5. V On the Study of Words Richard Chenevix Trench
  6. VI Essays and Tales Joseph Addison