Pagan Papers

"Stories about a group of orphaned children."@en
"A wry, witty, wide-ranging collection of eighteen irresistible essays. Strolling, loafing, smoking, collecting books and pondering, the author muses on the human condition. What to do about relatives who are in the way? What is the proper punishment for a bookbinder who takes too long at his job? Are free libraries an unmixed blessing? More seriously: Can nothing make it worth our while not to quarrel with our fellows? Which is more desirable: memory or forgetfulness? Are we irrevocably cut off from the natural world, or might there still be a way back to it?"@en
"This 1893 collection of eighteen pieces is Grahame's first book. Rather than fantasies, it contains genial, rambling essays on such subjects as The Romance of the Road, The Rural Pan, The White Poppy, The Fairy Wicket, and The Lost Centaur. Some of the essays prefigure his fictions, especially his masterpiece, The Wind in the Willows ."@en
"This handsome edition contains a collection of essays from the columns of the "National Observer," with a front-piece by Aubrey Beardsley."@en