1. The Beauty Industry
Aldous L. Huxley
2. Meditation on the Moon
Aldous L. Huxley
3. Punishment Never Cures Anything
Alexander Southerland Nell
4. Universities and Their Function
Alfred North Whitehead
5. In July
Alice Meynell
6. On Book-Buying
Augustine Birrell
7. What I Have Lived For
Bertrand Russell
8. August
Charles Dickens
9. The Child Angel: A Dream
Charles Lamb
10. Insouciance
D. H. Lawrence
11. Of the Dignity or Meanness of Human Nature
David Hume
12. Journey Through a Tunnel
David Storey
13. Unworldliness of the Early Christians
Edward Gibbon
14. Take Your Home into Your Own Hands
Evelyn Waugh
15. Of Boldness
Francis Bacon
16. Of Studies
Francis Bacon
17. Of Youth and Age
Francis Bacon
18. Of Wisdom for a Mans Self
Francis Bacon
19. My Life Is Over
George Gissing
20. Politics and the English Language
George Orwell
21. Getting Up on Cold Mornings
James H. L. Hunt
22. A Passion for Cities
Jan Morris
23. First Snow
John Boynton Priestley
24. The Definition of a Gentleman
John Henry Newman
25. The Tapestry of Human Life
John Henry Newman
26. The Importance of Ones Own Language
John Locke
27. Good and Evil
John Milton
28. About Books
John Ruskin
29. A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding
Jonathan Swift
30. Thoughts in Westminster Abbey
Joseph Addison
31. The Artist and the World
loyce Cary
32. Upon Affectation
Lord Chesterfield
33. Heine and the Philistines
Matthew Arnold
34. National Prejudices
Oliver Goldsmith
35. Conversation
Samuel Johnson
36. On Idleness
Samuel Johnson
37. Preface to His Dictionary
Samuel Johnson
38. Companionship of Books
Samuel Smiles
39. On Recollections of Childhood
Sir Richard Steele
40. The Romance of History
Thomas Babington Macaulay
41. On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth
Thomas De Quincey
42. Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs
Thomas Pains
43. Her Own Village
W H. Hudson
44. The Faces of Buddha
William Empson
45. An Afternoon Walk in October
William Hale White
46. On a Landscape of Nicholas Poussin
William Hazlitt
47. On Going aJourney
William Hazlitt
48. Lucidity, Simplicity, Euphony
William Somerset Maugham
49. Of Beauty, Fame, Longevity, etc.
William Somerset Maugham
50. The Philosopher
William Somerset Maugham
51. The Joys of Writing
Winston Churchill