Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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... described the dog Boxer in The Cricket on the Hearth , or when he took Scrooge home to " a gloomy suite of rooms , in a lowering pile of building up a yard , where it had so little business to be , that one could scarcely help fancying ...
... described the dog Boxer in The Cricket on the Hearth , or when he took Scrooge home to " a gloomy suite of rooms , in a lowering pile of building up a yard , where it had so little business to be , that one could scarcely help fancying ...
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... described that lady's husband as " a good - humoured rattling creature , with a perpetual festivity of temper and a propensity to motion and laughter , and all sorts of merry mischief , like a schoolboy in the holidays , which ...
... described that lady's husband as " a good - humoured rattling creature , with a perpetual festivity of temper and a propensity to motion and laughter , and all sorts of merry mischief , like a schoolboy in the holidays , which ...
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... described so many of his naughti- nesses suggests that he thought only of entertaining his old age privately with ancient secrets . At any rate , Pepys was the great diarist ; although he pictured much of his age he concentrated upon ...
... described so many of his naughti- nesses suggests that he thought only of entertaining his old age privately with ancient secrets . At any rate , Pepys was the great diarist ; although he pictured much of his age he concentrated upon ...
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? | 9 |
FINISHING A BOOK | 45 |
THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS | 51 |
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