Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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Page 64
... readers come to the books they read with their minds made up . They are quite unable to put themselves first of all into the writer's place . They have not the patience — and another quality which I shall mention in a moment — to let ...
... readers come to the books they read with their minds made up . They are quite unable to put themselves first of all into the writer's place . They have not the patience — and another quality which I shall mention in a moment — to let ...
Page 65
... readers will not grant . They are as full of prejudice as truly ignorant readers ; and the fact that they command an armoury of specious reasons for opinion should not hide their incapacity from us . Instead of modestly asking " What ...
... readers will not grant . They are as full of prejudice as truly ignorant readers ; and the fact that they command an armoury of specious reasons for opinion should not hide their incapacity from us . Instead of modestly asking " What ...
Page 107
... reading by each of these answerers is one hour and seventeen minutes per day . " Prodigious ! " We have no magazine in this country quite corresponding to Harper's . I wish we had . It is not possible to compare its readers with any ...
... reading by each of these answerers is one hour and seventeen minutes per day . " Prodigious ! " We have no magazine in this country quite corresponding to Harper's . I wish we had . It is not possible to compare its readers with any ...
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? | 9 |
FINISHING A BOOK | 45 |
THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS | 51 |
Copyright | |
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