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WILLIAM COBBETT
A Shooter
CHARLES LAMB
The Convalescent
WILLIAM HAZLITT
On Familiar Style
THOMAS DE QUINCEY
On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
The Woods and the Pacific
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
How Wealth Accumulates and Men Decay
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Universities and Their Function (excerpt)
EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS
The Town Week
HILAIRE BELLOC
The Crooked Streets
MAX BEERBOHM
Seeing People Off
BERTRAND RUSSELL
What I Have Lived For
WINSTON CHURCHILL
"I Have Nothing to Offer but Blood,Toil, Tears and Sweat"
GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON
A Defence o/Detective Stories
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Lucidity, Simplicity, Euphony
ROBERT LYND
The Vice o/Punctuality
EDWARD MORGAN FORSTER
People
VIRGINIA WOOLF
The Death o/the Moth
ALAN ALEXANDER MILRE
Golden Fruit
ALEXANDER SUTHERLAND NEILL
Punishment Never Cures Anything
D. H. LAWRENCE
Whistling of Birds
ALDOUS HUXLEY
The Beauty Industry
JOHN BOYNTON PRIESTLEY
The Ironic Principle
GEORGE ORWELL
Some Thoughts on the Common Toad
WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN
Work, Labor, and Play
LAURIE LEE
Appetite
DYLAN THOMAS
Memories of Christmas
ARTHUR C,CLARKE
We'll Never Conquer Space
DORIS LESSING
My Father
JAN MORRIS
A Passion for Cities
DAVID STOREY
Journey Through a Tunnel
MARTIN AMIS
I Am in Blood Stepped in So Far