Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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Page 47
... beginning of a book is the beginning of trouble . Arnold Bennett used to say " anybody can write a good first chapter " ; Sir Walter Besant said that when he considered the labour - it is the word I used above - that went into the ...
... beginning of a book is the beginning of trouble . Arnold Bennett used to say " anybody can write a good first chapter " ; Sir Walter Besant said that when he considered the labour - it is the word I used above - that went into the ...
Page 49
... beginning and end of the book is a false one . It is the sensation of a Channel swimmer who can no longer see the Dover cliffs or the French coast . But it is disagreeable . It continues until , with many qualms and self- distrusts , I ...
... beginning and end of the book is a false one . It is the sensation of a Channel swimmer who can no longer see the Dover cliffs or the French coast . But it is disagreeable . It continues until , with many qualms and self- distrusts , I ...
Page 143
... beginning of that curious aesthetic hypocrisy to which far too many people yield in their reverence for culture . Not all the reverent are hypocritical , of course . Nevertheless it is the short- coming of the literary prig that he ...
... beginning of that curious aesthetic hypocrisy to which far too many people yield in their reverence for culture . Not all the reverent are hypocritical , of course . Nevertheless it is the short- coming of the literary prig that he ...
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? | 9 |
FINISHING A BOOK | 45 |
THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS | 51 |
Copyright | |
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