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A TOUR BY ROBINSON CRUSOE SOME ' OME time ago I was reading Professor Trevelyan's England Under Queen Anne ; and at the beginning of this work I found a remarkable tribute to a book which I had never seen , and certainly did not then ...
A TOUR BY ROBINSON CRUSOE SOME ' OME time ago I was reading Professor Trevelyan's England Under Queen Anne ; and at the beginning of this work I found a remarkable tribute to a book which I had never seen , and certainly did not then ...
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Alas , any author will tell you that the beginning of a book is the beginning of trouble . Arnold Bennett used to say " anybody can write a good first chapter " ; Sir Walter Besant said that when he considered ...
Alas , any author will tell you that the beginning of a book is the beginning of trouble . Arnold Bennett used to say " anybody can write a good first chapter " ; Sir Walter Besant said that when he considered ...
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Of course that sensation of not being able to see the beginning and end of the book is a false one . It is the sensation of a Channel swimmer who can no longer see the Dover cliffs or the French coast . But it is disagreeable .
Of course that sensation of not being able to see the beginning and end of the book is a false one . It is the sensation of a Channel swimmer who can no longer see the Dover cliffs or the French coast . But it is disagreeable .
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WHY READ THE CLASSICS? Page | 9 |
DICKENS AND THACKERAY AT CHRISTMAS | 15 |
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD | 21 |
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