1. The Beauty Industry
Aldous L. Huxley()

2. Meditation on the Moon
Aldous L. Huxley()

3. Punishment Never Cures Anything
Alexander Southerland Neil()

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 Mans 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 Ones 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
Joyce 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 Paine()

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 a Journey
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()