The English Mail-Coach begins as a memory of riding the night mails in their glory, when coaches carried news of victories across England, then narrows to a near-collision on a dark road and a nightmare fugue of the young woman De Quincey could not save. The companion essay on Joan of Arc defends the Maid against her detractors in impassioned prose.
Two of the finest examples of English impassioned prose, from the author of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Download the free EPUB.