Chapter 1 Francis Bacon/1
Chapter 2 Jonathan Swift/11
Chapter 3 Joseph Addison/16
Chapter 4 Samuel Johnson/20
Chapter 5 Charles Lamb/26
Chapter 6 William Hazlitt/30
Chapter 7 Thomas De Quincey/35
Chapter 8 Bertrand Russell/44
Chapter 9 Virginia Woolf/46
Chapter 10 George Orwell/51
Chapter 11 John Boynton Priestley/56
Chapter 12 Benjamin Franklin/59
Chapter 13 Ralph Waldo Emerson/65
Chapter 14 Henry David Thoreau/83
Chapter 15 Mark Twain/103
Chapter 16 Elwyn Brooks White/106
Appendix/109
