Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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... political ; and they took him in the end into journalism and pamphleteering , and at last the true field for his genius , by which he has ever since been known to the world . But he did not write Robinson Crusoe until he was nearly ...
... political ; and they took him in the end into journalism and pamphleteering , and at last the true field for his genius , by which he has ever since been known to the world . But he did not write Robinson Crusoe until he was nearly ...
Page 95
... political force . He had fought hard with his pen for Catholic Emancipation . He had attacked the cruelties then and ... politicians that unless the Bill were passed " not one single house belonging to any peer that voted against it ...
... political force . He had fought hard with his pen for Catholic Emancipation . He had attacked the cruelties then and ... politicians that unless the Bill were passed " not one single house belonging to any peer that voted against it ...
Page 113
... politics , found him eventually a disappointing figure , non - party and negative , dwarfed by the evangelistic giantism of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky . In France , where political cleavages were less desperate and novel - writing was taken ...
... politics , found him eventually a disappointing figure , non - party and negative , dwarfed by the evangelistic giantism of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky . In France , where political cleavages were less desperate and novel - writing was taken ...
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WHY READ THE CLASSICS? Page | 9 |
DICKENS AND THACKERAY AT CHRISTMAS | 15 |
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD | 21 |
Copyright | |
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