#001 — Overture: An Excerpt from Swann’s Way. Marcel Proust, translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff, 1922. 88 pages.
The perfect pocket Proust — the spellbinding opening section of In Search of Lost Time. Complete in itself, yet containing in miniature every obsession that will unfold across the seven-volume epic to come: childhood, memory, desire, sensation — including the most famous conjunction of cake and tea in twentieth-century fiction.

#002 — A Dictionary of Victorian Slang and Phrase: Selections from Passing English. J. Redding Ware, 1909. 92 pages.
Choice selections from J. R. Ware’s irresistible Passing English of the Victorian Era (1909), distilled here for pure delight — including such gems as “Got the Morbs” (temporary melancholia), “Doing the Bear” (courting that involves hugging), and “Nanty Narking” (great fun). The Victorian world in its own unruly voice.

#003 — Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched & The Finding of the Absolute. May Sinclair, 1923. 84 pages.
Hell is a hotel room in Paris, where a woman’s one sin is repeated eternally; heaven sees Kant lead a man into “cubic time” and the beating heart of God. Together these tales, from Sinclair’s Uncanny Stories (1923), trace a divine comedy in miniature: two indelible visions of the afterlife from an unjustly forgotten voice of modernism.