It’s a shame that so much of Rose Macaulay’s work is out of print in the United States. I think the only title readily available today is The Towers of Trebizond. It’s a fine book, but it’s also a late book and not, perhaps, entirely representative of the work by which she made her name in the 19...
This collection of essays about things that bring pleasure has a bit of a quirk to it. Not only does Macaulay write about the reasons that those things bring her pleasure, but she also includes the drawbacks, the potential non-pleasurable side effects, of those same things. It is kind of the oppo...