Deal Me In 2017: In which I will be reading 52 essays at the very least!

About two months ago I had got ready a list of short stories and poems I wanted to read for Jay's Deal Me In Challenge in 2017. However, since then I have been struggling with my final decision as I have been wanting to read a bunch of essays as well. After much internal debating I have decided to go with the essays instead, and to keep the first list in reserve for the following year (perhaps). 

So, for the upcoming Deal Me in Challenge, I have decided to read 52 essays. I have chosen lists for three suits from A Book of English Essays published by Penguin Classics. This book consists of pieces from well-known essayists of the 16th century up to the early 20th century.  The final thirteen I have chosen from The Literary Network. 

I am quite excited about this venture, and look forward to sharing my views on these essays too, should I feel up for it, that is. For the most part, I have decided to at least share my favourite quotations. 

And now for the list! 

Note 1:1 = Ace, 11 = Jack, 12 = Queen, 13 = King

Note 2: I have allowed myself two wild cards

Clubs

1. Of Travel by Francis Bacon
2. On Death by Jeremy Taylor
3. A Citizen's Diary by Joseph Addison
4. Recollections of Childhood by Richard Steele
5. The Man in Black by Oliver Goldsmith
6. Old China by Charles Lamb
7. On the Ignorance of the Learned by William Hazlitt
8. On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth by Thomas de Quincey
9. Getting up on Cold Mornings by Leigh Hunt
10. Walking Tours by Robert Louis Stevenson
11. A Defence of Nonsense by G. K. Chesterton
12. The Crooked Streets by Hillaire Belloc
13. The Maypole and the Column by Maurice Hewlett

Hearts

1. A Funeral by E. V. Lucas
2. The Defects of English Prose by Arthur Clutton-Brock
3. Broken Memories by Edward Thomas
4. Likes and Dislikes by James Agate
5. The Darkness by Robert Lynd
6. A Village Celebration by A. A. Milne
7. Wild Card
8. A Defence of Shyness by Harold Nicolson
9. 'W.G.' by Neville Cardus
10. A Sentimental Journey by Ivor Brown
11. On Doing Nothing by J. B. Priestley
12. Tragedy and the Whole Truth by Aldous Huxley
13. The Dean by V. S. Pritchett

Spades

1. The Tombs in Westminster Abbey by Joseph Addison
2. A Party at Vauxhall Gardens by Oliver Goldsmith
3. Poor Relations by Charles Lamb
4. On Not Being a Philosopher by Robert Lynd
5. My First Article by J. B. Priestley
6. On Familiar Style by William Hazlitt
7. Wild Card
8. A Piece of Chalk by G. K. Chesterton
9. Seeing the Actors by J. B. Priestley
10. Why We Hate Insects by Robert Lynd
11. Imperfect Sympathies by Charles Lamb
12. National Prejudices by Oliver Goldsmith
13. Ladies' Head-dress by Joseph Addison

Diamond

1. On the Writing of Lyrics by P. G. Wodehouse
2. The Critic as Artist by Oscar Wilde
3. Reflections on Gandhi by George Orwell 
4. Concerning the American Language by Mark Twain
5. A Letter to a Hindu by Leo Tolstoy
6. On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
7. The Spirit of Japan by Rabindranath Tagore
8. To Chekhov's Memory by Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin
9. Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard III by Horace Walpole
10. Old English Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe
11. How I Became a Socialist by Jack London
12. The Decline of the Drama by Stephen Leacock
13. A Letter to Lord Chesterfield by Samuel Johnson

I will be updating this post with links to my thoughts/quotations/reviews on these essays. :)