A collected selection of pieces composed during a revolutionary two-year span, combining literary sketches, historical and political essays, journalistic dispatches, humorous vignettes, and personal recollections. The writings trace shifting public moods from initial exhilaration and hopeful reform through bitter disappointment and urgent appeals, finally arriving at a more measured resolve. A prefatory note explains the author's curation choices and the destruction or suppression of some items, and several pieces record personal upheavals and active involvement in the struggle alongside editorial activity. Together the texts render the era's emotional intensity and its effect on literary form and argument.