Contents

– Introduction by Gyles Brandreth –

ix

– The House Beautiful –

1

– Dinners and Dishes –

30

– Shakespeare on Scenery –

33

– Hamlet at the Lyceum –

39

– Count Tolstoi’s War and Peace –

45

– The American Invasion –

49

– Aristotle at Afternoon Tea –

55

– London Models –

62

– The Decay of Lying: An Observation –

73