The New England nature writer Bradford Torrey turns to the books he loved: Hazlitt, who knew how to enjoy himself, Edward FitzGerald, Thoreau and his demands on nature, Stevenson, Keats and Anatole France. He adds essays on verbal magic, quotability, the grace of obscurity and the lack of an American literature.
Graceful literary essays from a contemporary of John Burroughs, for lovers of reading about reading. Download the free EPUB.