Filled with affection and satire, and is peppered with witty barbs at friends and people in author's social circle of aristocrats, writers, musicians, and courtesans, the author has brought together nineteen renowned poets and poetry translators.
Features essays about why we read. This work explores the pleasures and trials that we take from books, as well as explaining the beauty of Ruskin and his work, and the joys of losing yourself in literature as a child.
A work of Proust that is translated from French original into English.