Table of Contents

• Introduction
• The Wall and the Books
• Pascal's Sphere
• The Flower of Coleridge
• The Dream of Coleridge
• Time and J. W. Dunne
• The Creation and P. H. Gosse
• Dr. Américo Castro is Alarmed
• A Note on Carriego
• Our Poor Individualism
• Quevedo
• Partial Enchantments of the Quixote
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Note on Walt Whitman
• Valéry as a Symbol
• The Enigma of Edward FitzGerald
• About Oscar Wilde
• On Chesterton
• The First Wells
• The Biathanatos
• Pascal
• The Meeting in a Dream
• The Analytical Language of John Wilkins
• Kafka and his Precursors
• Avatars of the Tortoise
• On the Cult of Books
• The Nightingale of Keats
• The Mirror of the Enigmas
• Two Books
• A Comment on August 23, 1944
• About William Beckford's Vathek
• About The Purple Land
• From Someone to Nobody
• Forms of a Legend
• From Allegories to Novels
• The Innocence of Layamon
• For Bernard Shaw
• The Modesty of History
• New Refutation of Time
• Epilogue
• Index