Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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... lived there were bad writers . Jane Austen , who wrote pungent letters to her sister ( not quite the best of her compositions , but very good for all that , and much better than is sometimes allowed ) , made fun of such writers when she ...
... lived there were bad writers . Jane Austen , who wrote pungent letters to her sister ( not quite the best of her compositions , but very good for all that , and much better than is sometimes allowed ) , made fun of such writers when she ...
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... lived much , of choice , alone at her country home , observing the monde from a distance . What she chronicled in writing intimately to her daughter were the trifling accidents of the countryside , the idiosyncrasies of casual callers ...
... lived much , of choice , alone at her country home , observing the monde from a distance . What she chronicled in writing intimately to her daughter were the trifling accidents of the countryside , the idiosyncrasies of casual callers ...
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... lived in Fore Street , by Moorgate , one of the parts of London devastated by German fire bombs in the late War ; and Defoe was brought up a Presbyterian . Those were days when English trade was becoming what is nowadays called “ high ...
... lived in Fore Street , by Moorgate , one of the parts of London devastated by German fire bombs in the late War ; and Defoe was brought up a Presbyterian . Those were days when English trade was becoming what is nowadays called “ high ...
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? | 9 |
FINISHING A BOOK | 45 |
THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS | 51 |
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