The Familiar Essay: A voice in your ear, in no hurry

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

In this collection

• A Sturdy Believer
• Hypnos
• The Goal
• Ever to Be
• What Man is there of you?
• The Man and his Newspaper
• The Temptress
• The Thrilling Moment
• The Consecrated Spot
• The New State
• The Spiritual Conflict
• Three Dead Friends. (Rhymes of Rainy Days)
• Life
• Youth a Narrative
• The Enthusiast (Poems from Timoleon)
• Leviticus
• Suicides
• The Citizen and the Traveller
• Io Temo Si De' Begli Occhi L' Assalto
• Henry Layton
• On the Pleasure of Taking up One's Pen
• On Life after Death
• Wanted-Schooling
• Boy o' Dreams
• All collections