On The World Behind the Scenes by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Stage Struck Out →
On Thackeray's compulsive need to show the machinery
satireillusionsentiment
The Library of Choice Literature / Essays
Interactive Essays
Short annotated companions on why specific 1881 voices still land. Each essay is cross-linked into the Volume I catalog.
On Mark Twain on the Weather by Samuel L. Clemens
The Weather as Civic Argument →
On Twain's New England speech and how complaint becomes boast
humorcivic pridenew england
On From "In Memoriam" by Alfred Tennyson
Grief's Grammar →
On In Memoriam and what form does to feeling
griefformelegydoubt