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... with editors [ by editors he means publishers ' readers ] is so simple that nobody gets it . They ought to just take a book and give themselves to it , and read it like a regular citizen and see whether they like it or not .
... with editors [ by editors he means publishers ' readers ] is so simple that nobody gets it . They ought to just take a book and give themselves to it , and read it like a regular citizen and see whether they like it or not .
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If the young author means business , he finds a subject . Usually , he copies a favourite book . He copies its style and its limitations . He may go on copying for the rest of his life . If he does that , posterity will never hear of ...
If the young author means business , he finds a subject . Usually , he copies a favourite book . He copies its style and its limitations . He may go on copying for the rest of his life . If he does that , posterity will never hear of ...
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Hazlitt said : “ Self - will , passion , the love of singularity , a disdain of himself and of others ( with a conscious sense that this is among the ways and means of focusing admiration ) are the proper categories of his mind .
Hazlitt said : “ Self - will , passion , the love of singularity , a disdain of himself and of others ( with a conscious sense that this is among the ways and means of focusing admiration ) are the proper categories of his mind .
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Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? Page | 9 |
DICKENS AND THACKERAY AT CHRISTMAS | 15 |
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD | 21 |
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| Title | Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and Magog |
| Author | Frank Swinnerton |
| Publisher | Hutchinson, 1952 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 21 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 174 pages |
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