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In this short story H.G. Wells conducts a thought experiment. What would become of a community if its members were somehow deprived of sight?

Baron d¿Holbach¿s 1776 Essay on the Art of Crawling is a delicious satire on the sycophancy and self-abasement rife in the courts of Europe.

In this brilliant essay the historian Tony Judt describes the singular contribution made by railways to the development of our shared way of life.

Stephen Leacock writes a masterful account of how humour works¿and of how it very often doesn¿t.

In 1931 Lauro de Bosis flew over Rome in a small plane in order to scatter anti-Fascist pamphlets from the sky. He did not survive the journey, but he left behind a remarkable testament.

Benjamin offers a personal meditation on his career as a book collector and on the strange relations that spring up between objects and their owners.

Edith Wharton offers a scathing attack on ¿mechanical¿ readers who are having a disastrous impact on the world of letters.

Read the authors discussing their approaches to the craft of writing, the origins of their characters¿ names, and the critical reception of their novels.

When Zweig's anonymous narrator sets off to the provinces in search of a lucrative bargain, he finds himself caught up in the slow unfolding of a family tragedy.