Little Clothbound Classics, created by the talented Coralie Bickford-Smith, are seductive miniature collections of essays, novellas, and short tales by the greatest authors in history. Because of the sociability of the streets and the champagne brightness of the air in winter, "the hour should be twilight and the season winter." In these circumstances, Virginia Woolf wanders the streets of London in quest of a pencil. One of the great odes to city life quickly emerges from the description of her journey?the people, the locations, and the pleasure. Other excellent essays in this collection include "How Should One Read a Book?" and "The Sun and the Fish."