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255 pages ; 23 cm. |
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Essay index reprint series
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Essay index reprint series.
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| Contents |
The ironing board -- On belonging to clubs -- Notes on an island -- Time of life -- Saint bypass -- An American gentleman -- Another letter to lord Chesterfield -- A Christmas story without slush -- Bronzino's mixture -- Codeine (7 per cent) -- Hitch your wagon -- Murder in red and green -- The adventure of foggy bottom -- Conference at Quebec -- Wedding beets -- Watson a la mode -- In memoriam: E. V., Bill Footner, Tom Daly, Bob Holliday -- The atom splitter -- Two tributes: Max Beerbohm, Walter De La Mare -- Tempest 1941 -- Bacon's essays -- The sense of place -- The bird that didnt' go south -- The consolable widow -- The autograph -- A letter to T. W. L.. |
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