Aldrich empties his notebook of ideas for stories, epigrams and observations on writers met in person, then adds short essays on queer names like Fleabody, on Rostand’s play L’Aiglon, on plot and character, on the cruelty of science, and on the friendship of Leigh Hunt and Barry Cornwall.
Urbane literary miscellany from the author of The Story of a Bad Boy, best read a page at a time. Download the free EPUB.