Personal Pleasures - by Rose Macaulay (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><i>Personal Pleasures</i> 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: <ul> <li>Abroad</li> <li>Album</li> <li>Arm-Chair</li> <li>Astronomy</li> <li>Bakery in the Night</li> <li>Bathing</li> <li>1 Off the Florida Keys</li> <li>2 Off the Ligurian Coast</li> <li>3 In the Cam</li> <li>Bed</li> <li>1 Getting into it</li> <li>2 Not getting out of it</li> <li>Believing</li> <li>Bird in the Box</li> <li>Book Auctions</li> <li>Booksellers' Catalogues</li> <li>Bulls</li> <li>Candlemas</li> <li>Canoeing</li> <li>Chasing Fireflies</li> <li>Christmas Morning</li> <li>Church-going</li> <li>1. Anglican</li> <li>2. Roman Catholic</li> <li>3. Quaker</li> <li>4. Unitarian</li> <li>Cinema</li> <li>Clothes</li> <li>Cows</li> <li>Departure of Visitors</li> <li>Disbelieving</li> <li>Doves in the Chimney</li> <li>Driving a Car</li> <li>Easter in the Woods</li> <li>Eating and Drinking</li> <li>Elephants in Bloomsbury</li> <li>Fastest on Earth</li> <li>Finishing a Book</li> <li>Fire Engines</li> <li>Flattery</li> <li>Flower Shop in the Night</li> <li>Flying</li> <li>Following the Fashion</li> <li>Fraternal</li> <li>Getting Rid</li> <li>Hatching Eggs</li> <li>Heresies</li> <li>Hot Bath</li> <li>Ignorance</li> <li>1. Of one's neighbours</li> <li>2. Of current literature</li> <li>3. Of gossip</li> <li>4. Of wickedness</li> <li>5. Of one's pass-book</li> <li>Improving the Dictionary</li> <li>Listening In</li> <li>Logomachy</li> <li>Meals Out</li> <li>1 On the roof</li> <li>2 On the pavement</li> <li>New Year's Eve</li> <li>Not Going to Parties</li> <li>Parties</li> <li>Play-Going</li> <li>Pretty Creatures</li> <li>Reading</li> <li>Shopping Abroad</li> <li>Showing Off</li> <li>Solitude</li> <li>Sunday</li> <li>Taking Umbrage</li> <li>Talking about a New Car</li> <li>Telling Travellers' Tales</li> <li>Turtles in Hyde Park</li> <li>Walking</li> <li>Writing</li></ul> 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.
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