An old portmanteau turns up in a cupboard and with it a forgotten sentence from youth; so begins a collection of essays written between 1910 and 1919. Beerbohm considers hosts and guests, servants, the tyranny of the country walk, imaginary books mentioned in novels, a hoax about a Baltic poet, and his memories of Swinburne at No. 2, The Pines.
Some of the most elegant comic essays in English, by the author of Zuleika Dobson. Download the free EPUB.