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I remember one ghastly time in 1939 when the friend who was typing the book was forced to send back a chapter which she could not read , when I knew she was going away for her holiday on the Wednesday and must receive the last chapter ...
I remember one ghastly time in 1939 when the friend who was typing the book was forced to send back a chapter which she could not read , when I knew she was going away for her holiday on the Wednesday and must receive the last chapter ...
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We have changed all that . We demand the inside story . But we ought to remember that the story told to us is not necessarily the whole truth or the vital truth . I remember one author saying to me , once , as 69 THACKERAY RECONSIDERED.
We have changed all that . We demand the inside story . But we ought to remember that the story told to us is not necessarily the whole truth or the vital truth . I remember one author saying to me , once , as 69 THACKERAY RECONSIDERED.
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If it is half fiction , as Hazlitt declares , it still owes its charm to the fact that it is simultaneously all talk and all life . Turning now to other authors , do you remember what a gift George Borrow had for conversations ?
If it is half fiction , as Hazlitt declares , it still owes its charm to the fact that it is simultaneously all talk and all life . Turning now to other authors , do you remember what a gift George Borrow had for conversations ?
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WHY READ THE CLASSICS? Page | 9 |
DICKENS AND THACKERAY AT CHRISTMAS | 15 |
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD | 21 |
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