Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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... Thackeray . Dickens wrote in a fury of enthusiasm ; Thackeray always , I think , reluctantly and in sadness . Both were sentimentalists ; but while Dickens wrote , laughing , with tears running down his cheeks ( " Thank God ! I have ...
... Thackeray . Dickens wrote in a fury of enthusiasm ; Thackeray always , I think , reluctantly and in sadness . Both were sentimentalists ; but while Dickens wrote , laughing , with tears running down his cheeks ( " Thank God ! I have ...
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... Thackeray : a Reconsidera- tion , when momentarily gravelled in what I cannot help think- ing a rather glib and ... Thackeray's ill - regulated fancy tends to mix , without properly fusing , the tutelary spirit of his childhood ( Mrs ...
... Thackeray : a Reconsidera- tion , when momentarily gravelled in what I cannot help think- ing a rather glib and ... Thackeray's ill - regulated fancy tends to mix , without properly fusing , the tutelary spirit of his childhood ( Mrs ...
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... Thackeray eloped together both would be ostra- cized . But all men are influenced by their mothers . If they are writers they are greatly influenced . In ... Thackeray was the man Thackeray , who died when he was fifty 72 Londoner's Post.
... Thackeray eloped together both would be ostra- cized . But all men are influenced by their mothers . If they are writers they are greatly influenced . In ... Thackeray was the man Thackeray , who died when he was fifty 72 Londoner's Post.
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? | 9 |
FINISHING A BOOK | 45 |
THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS | 51 |
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