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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