A Child's Christmas in Wales
音频 One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking...
Work, Labor, and Play
音频 So far as I know, Miss Hannah Arendt was the first person to define the essential difference between work and labor. To be happy, a...
Some Thoughts on the Common Toad
音频 Before the swallow, before the daffodil, and not much later than the snowdrop, the common toad salutes the coming of spring after his...
Golden Fruit
音频 Of the fruits of the year I give my vote to the orange. In the first place it is a perennial–if not in actual fact, at least in the...
The Death of the Moth
音频 Moths that fly by day are not properly to be called moths; they do not excite that pleasant sense of dark autumn nights and...
People
音频 E. M. Forster: from (1927) We may divide characters into flat and round. Flat characters were called “humours” in the seventeenth...
Lucidity, Simplicity, Euphony
音频 I have never had much patience with the writers who claim from the reader an effort to understand their meaning. You have only to go...
A Defence of Detective Stories
音频 In attempting to reach the genuine psychological reason for the popularity of detective stories, it is necessary to rid ourselves of...
Blood, toil, tears and sweat
音频 On Friday evening last I received His Majesty's commission to form a new Administration. It as the evident wish and will of Parliament...
What I have Lived For
音频 Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governedmy life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable...
