Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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Letters to Gog and Magog Frank Swinnerton. SAMUEL BUTLER SAM AMUEL BUTLER'S grandfather was Headmaster for many years of Shrewsbury School , and became Bishop of Lichfield . His father , the Reverend Thomas Butler , was Rector of Langar ...
Letters to Gog and Magog Frank Swinnerton. SAMUEL BUTLER SAM AMUEL BUTLER'S grandfather was Headmaster for many years of Shrewsbury School , and became Bishop of Lichfield . His father , the Reverend Thomas Butler , was Rector of Langar ...
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... Butler in the manner of those expansive days was packed off to New Zealand to become a sheep - farmer . As a sheep - farmer , having first prised four or five thousand pounds from his father , he was successful enough to turn this money ...
... Butler in the manner of those expansive days was packed off to New Zealand to become a sheep - farmer . As a sheep - farmer , having first prised four or five thousand pounds from his father , he was successful enough to turn this money ...
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... Butler was at the same time -- I think , physically , too , but I am not sure of this — a small man . But let anybody who supposes that he was not also a great man correct that impression by reading his work . It has a most lovely ...
... Butler was at the same time -- I think , physically , too , but I am not sure of this — a small man . But let anybody who supposes that he was not also a great man correct that impression by reading his work . It has a most lovely ...
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? | 9 |
FINISHING A BOOK | 45 |
THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS | 51 |
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