The book collects many short stories and essays, with a foreword for each.

I am rarely happy with books that collect essays from old newspapers and periodicals.

He also collected essays, stories, poems etc. that have no written copies, but were popular among folks.

Several books were subsequently published that collected essays and articles from various sources.

Love of the World (2009) Collected non-fiction and essays.

The book collected essays that James had written over the preceding several years.

The book collected essays that James had written over nearly forty years about a country he knew and loved well.

A second volume, Reading Human Nature, collected later essays.

The book collected various essays James had written on England over a period of more than thirty years, beginning in the 1870s.

In the first two parts he has collected essays written from 1942 to 1945 and the third part was written especially for this book.