The Pleasures of Ignorance
by Robert Lynd
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About this eBook
- Author
- Lynd, Robert, 1879-1949
- Credits
- Produced by Ted Garvin, Project Manager, Keith M. Eckrich, Post-Processor and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreaders Team
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
- Subject
- Essays
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 13448
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13448
- Release Date
- September 12, 2004
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.BY ROBERT LYND — LONDON — TO JAMES WINDER GOOD — CHAPTER PAGE
- 2.I — THE PLEASURES OF IGNORANCE
- 3.II — THE HERRING FLEET
- 4.III — THE BETTING MAN
- 5.IV — THE HUM OF INSECTS
- 6.V — CATS
- 7.VI — MAY
- 8.VII — NEW YEAR PROPHECIES
- 9.VIII — ON KNOWING THE DIFFERENCE
- 10.IX — THE INTELLECTUAL SIDE OF HORSE-RACING
- 11.X — WHY WE HATE INSECTS
- 12.XI — VIRTUE
- 13.XII — JUNE
- 14.XIII — ON FEELING GAY
- 15.XIV — IN THE TRAIN
- 16.XV — THE MOST CURIOUS ANIMAL
- 17.XVI — THE OLD INDIFFERENCE
- 18.XVII — EGGS: AN EASTER HOMILY
- 19.XVIII — ENTER THE SPRING
- 20.XIX — THE DAREDEVIL BARBER
- 21.XX — WEEDS: AN APPRECIATION
- 22.XXI — A JUROR IN WAITING
- 23.XXII — THE THREE-HALFPENNY BIT
- 24.XXIII — THE MORALS OF BEANS
- 25.XXIV — ON SEEING A JOKE
- 26.XXV — GOING TO THE DERBY
- 27.XXVI — THIS BLASTED WORLD
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