Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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Page 10
... telling others what to do , they are determined to set the whole literary house of Britain in order . They are going to tell children what they must read . They will soon tell the grown - ups . It is even possible that we may have ...
... telling others what to do , they are determined to set the whole literary house of Britain in order . They are going to tell children what they must read . They will soon tell the grown - ups . It is even possible that we may have ...
Page 17
... tell me what Mrs Peerybingle said . I know better . Mrs Peerybingle may leave it on record to the end of time that ... telling a tragic story , as Dickens did , and giving it a fairy ending of poetic justice , he went back , in a ...
... tell me what Mrs Peerybingle said . I know better . Mrs Peerybingle may leave it on record to the end of time that ... telling a tragic story , as Dickens did , and giving it a fairy ending of poetic justice , he went back , in a ...
Page 48
... tell . At once I find that the plan will need to be changed . It is changed . Some of the pages I have written seem to me quite intolerable . I scrap them ; only , perhaps , to substitute others which are more intolerable to a reader ...
... tell . At once I find that the plan will need to be changed . It is changed . Some of the pages I have written seem to me quite intolerable . I scrap them ; only , perhaps , to substitute others which are more intolerable to a reader ...
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? Page | 9 |
DICKENS AND THACKERAY AT CHRISTMAS | 15 |
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD | 21 |
Copyright | |
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