Beyond a Boundary

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Contents......Page 12 Acknowledgements......Page 14 Foreword......Page 16 Introduction to the American Edition, by Robert Lipsyte......Page 22 A Note on Cricket......Page 28 Preface......Page 32 Part One. A Window to the World......Page 34 1. The Window......Page 36 2. Against the Current......Page 54 3. Old School-tie......Page 72 Part Two. All the World’s a Stage......Page 80 4. The Light and the Dark......Page 82 5. Patient Merit......Page 99 6. Three Generations......Page 105 7. The Most Unkindest Cut......Page 115 Part Three. One Man in His Time......Page 132 8. Prince and Pauper......Page 134 9. Magnanimity in Politics......Page 150 10. Wherefore Are These Things Hid?......Page 161 Part Four. To Interpose a Little Ease......Page 170 11. George Headley: Nascitur Non Fit......Page 172 Part Five. W. G.: Pre-eminent Victorian......Page 182 12. What Do Men Live By?......Page 184 13. Prolegomena to W. G.......Page 192 14. W. G.......Page 204 15. Decline of the West......Page 219 Part Six. The Art and Practic Part......Page 226 16. ‘What Is Art?’......Page 228 17. The Welfare State of Mind......Page 245 Part Seven. Vox Populi......Page 256 18. The Proof of the Pudding......Page 258 19. Alma Mater: Lares and Penates......Page 286 Epilogue and Apotheosis......Page 290 Index......Page 296