A veteran critic of the London Standard gathers his best reviews and essays on the short story, Balzac and George Eliot, the actresses Anne Oldfield, Siddons and Rachel, Dutch seventeenth-century drawings, etchers and printsellers, and the pleasures of owning a rare book and a few fine things.
Urbane late Victorian criticism across literature, theatre and art, for readers who enjoy the essay form. Download the free EPUB.