An early book of essays, written while Priestley was still at Cambridge, ranges with relish over a forgotten provincial player of the eighteenth century, a new kind of fiction, a mad shepherd, audacity in authorship, the joys of hyperbole, cartomancy, being kind to the old, the misery of filling in forms, and which great writers would make good company.
Witty, bookish essays showing the young Priestley already finding his genial voice. Download the free EPUB.