Table-Talk, Essays on Men and Manners
by William Hazlit
Hazlitt is one of the greatest essayists of the English language. He applies himself in his essays to everything from philosophy to the arts and theatre. What’s interesting about the collection is that the essays are some of his most wonderful work, and yet he wrote them at a time of heartbreak. He had fallen in love with a girl of 19, who ended up sitting on someone else’s knee.
