Over the Fireside with Silent Friends
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A chair by the fire provides Richard King with a setting for reflections on friendship, growing older and the habits that shape daily life. These essays move between personal meditation and pointed social observation. The opening considers books as a way to enter other people's thoughts, then asks what that freedom means for blind readers. Sir Arthur Pearson's foreword connects the collection with support for the National Library for the Blind.
King also turns his attention to the discomforts of family reputation. In the middle excerpt, he argues that honesty about embarrassing circumstances can deflate gossip more effectively than elaborate pretence. His conversational voice mixes sympathy with impatience at human foolishness, drawing examples from ordinary social encounters.
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- Author
- Richard King
- Reading time
- About 4 hours
- Pages
- 129
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Classics
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