Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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... written as letters and why , having been so written for a literary periodical of wide circulation among dons , manual workers , students , and casual readers , they avoid the abstruse , of which , indeed , I am incapable . Old Tokefield ...
... written as letters and why , having been so written for a literary periodical of wide circulation among dons , manual workers , students , and casual readers , they avoid the abstruse , of which , indeed , I am incapable . Old Tokefield ...
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... written . But no letter , and no other composition whatever , should be pompous , condescending , or pretentious . A letter which is all three must be one of the worst letters in the world . As to the request that I should write a ...
... written . But no letter , and no other composition whatever , should be pompous , condescending , or pretentious . A letter which is all three must be one of the worst letters in the world . As to the request that I should write a ...
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... written is never the book he dreamed of writing . It is a changeling . For one thing , every proportion of it has varied incalculably since it was begun . Some details , some characteristics , have risen in importance ; others have ...
... written is never the book he dreamed of writing . It is a changeling . For one thing , every proportion of it has varied incalculably since it was begun . Some details , some characteristics , have risen in importance ; others have ...
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? | 9 |
FINISHING A BOOK | 45 |
THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS | 51 |
Copyright | |
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