La librairie des livres interdits

Marc Levy

Description

Personal Pleasures is an anthology of 80 short essays (some of them very short) about the things the feminist critic and nivelist Rose Macaulay enjoyed most in life. The complete list consists of:

Abroad

Album

Arm-Chair

Astronomy

Bakery in the Night

Bathing

1 Off the Florida Keys

2 Off the Ligurian Coast

3 In the Cam

Bed

1 Getting into it

2 Not getting out of it

Believing

Bird in the Box

Book Auctions

Booksellers' Catalogues

Bulls

Candlemas

Canoeing

Chasing Fireflies

Christmas Morning

Church-going

1. Anglican

2. Roman Catholic

3. Quaker

4. Unitarian

Cinema

Clothes

Cows

Departure of Visitors

Disbelieving

Doves in the Chimney

Driving a Car

Easter in the Woods

Eating and Drinking

Elephants in Bloomsbury

Fastest on Earth

Finishing a Book

Fire Engines

Flattery

Flower Shop in the Night

Flying

Following the Fashion

Fraternal

Getting Rid

Hatching Eggs

Heresies

Hot Bath

Ignorance

1. Of one's neighbours

2. Of current literature

3. Of gossip

4. Of wickedness

5. Of one's pass-book

Improving the Dictionary

Listening In

Logomachy

Meals Out

1 On the roof

2 On the pavement

New Year's Eve

Not Going to Parties

Parties

Play-Going

Pretty Creatures

Reading

Shopping Abroad

Showing Off

Solitude

Sunday

Taking Umbrage

Talking about a New Car

Telling Travellers' Tales

Turtles in Hyde Park

Walking

Writing
While each essay can be read on its own as a short dose of delicious writing, the collection is also an autobiographical selection, revealing glimpses of Rose's own life, and making us laugh helplessly with her inimitable humour.