The Familiar Essay

The warm, digressive, personal essay — Lamb, Hazlitt, Stevenson, and the writers who made wandering prose an art.

A voice in your ear, in no hurry

In this collection

• Leave Me, My Blamer
• The Creature that Man Forgets
• Creation
• To Luna
• The Wise Men
• Doom and She
• Unrest
• The Great Commandment
• Targets
• A Trip to Plutopia
• The Best Letters of Charles Lamb
• God's Way with Man
• The Wealth of Nations
• Reliance (Lyrics)
• Mankind
• In Wasting One Drop
• To Doctor John Brown
• If the Dead Knew
• The Song of the Morrow
• When I'M Killed
• The Dykes
• The Importance of Hell in the Salvation Scheme
• Music
• Steinmetz and Keats
• A Man under Enchantment
• An Hour with our Prejudices
• As he Sees Himself
• The Cruelty of Good People
• The Land of the Large and Charitable Air
• The Pardoner
• Unseasonable Virtues

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